There were 89 judicial vacancies across Canada as of Jan. 1, including 23 in Ontario’s Superior Court.
Lametti’s office gave no indication as to what’s causing the delay, other than praising the appointment process for delivering qualified and diverse judges.and working diligently to fill vacancies in due course,” spokesperson Chantalle Aubertin said in a statement.
“This is of further concern given that many of these parties have suffered life-changing injuries and have no recourse beyond the court system,” she wrote., a Toronto-based legal organization, urged Lametti in a letter last month to quickly fill the positions and to come up with a policy to be ready to fill future vacancies when they come up, such as when a judge reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75.
“When clients are being told that you’re going to have to wait many years before you can have your day in court, they start to lose confidence in our system,” he said. “It’s very, very difficult. You feel how disappointed and disheartened they are when given that news.” Only criminal cases come with a constitutional guarantee that they must be heard in a reasonable time, and the Supreme Court of Canada has set strict timelines to bring those matters to trial. The president of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association said judges are being redeployed to hear criminal cases.
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