Traduction de «bassin de candidates jugées admissibles » (Français → Anglais) :

pre-qualified pool of candidates [ prequalified pool of candidates ]

prequalified candidate

(Return tabled) Question No. 448 Hon. Stéphane Dion: With regard to judicial appointments from the province of Quebec: (a) what steps is the government taking to ensure Quebec has full representation on the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC); (b) by when will a Justice to replace Justice Fish assume his or her seat on the SCC and by what process will this vacancy be filled; (c) in what ways is the decision in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6 being studied and analyzed by the government, and what impact is it expected to have on future judicial appointments from Quebec; (d) will the government seek constitutional amendment to allow for the appointment of judges from the ...[+++]federal courts to the Quebec seats on the SCC and, if so, how does the government plan to proceed; (e) does the government anticipate that the decision in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6 will have any impact on its ability to fill vacancies from Quebec in the federal courts and, if so, how; (f) in what ways will the government seek (i) to ensure civil law expertise and the representation of Quebec’s legal traditions and social values on the Court, (ii) to enhance the confidence of Quebec in the Court in the context of future appointments; (g) since the decision in Reference re Supreme Court Act, ss. 5 and 6, what discussions or meetings on judicial appointments have occurred with the Government of Quebec and the Barreau du Quebec; (h) in what ways has the question in (e) been studied or will be studied, if any; (i) in what ways has the pool of eligible persons for appointment to Quebec seats on the SCC been defined and identified, broken down by (i) gender, (ii), Aboriginal status, (iii) visible minority status; (j) what qualifications and merit criteria have been identified as necessary and desirable for an appointment to a Quebec seat on the SCC; (k) what steps have been undertaken to identify potential successors to Justice Lebel upon his anticipated retirement from the ...

Honourable senators, in terms of Bill C-232, this speaks not only to the tightening of the entry point requirements for those who have the potential to serve on the Supreme Court, thereby skewing the depth of the talent pool of potential candidates for this institution along regional lines, but also to the introduction of a new impairment in terms of the day-to-day functioning of the Supreme Court because of this amendment's all-or-nothing approach to interpretation.

The pool of individuals who would qualify for this position of judge advocate general, which was previously not limited by rank, has now been limited to a pool of very few people.