There is that ― the former Chief Justice keeps talking about a "21st century justice system", but never once says what that actually looks like. But there's more, too.
https://twitter.com/MarkPMancini/status/1281753350157959168
There's the fact that she was the head of the judicial branch for 17 years, and a member of the Supreme Court for 10 years before that, and a Chief Justice of a provincial superior court for a spell before that, yet writes in a "truth to power" voice.
There's the hypocrisy of a judge who repeatedly signed onto or authored opinions urging judicial deference to bureaucrats saying that "If [administrative tribunals] make mistakes, reviewing courts correct them."
And there's the fact that Chief Justice McLachlin should really be explaining how she continues to be associated with a court expected to rubber-stamp the decisions of the Chinese dictatorship ― but instead gets on her moral high horse to lecture us about access to justice.
I suppose it must be difficult for a person used to be the centre of rapt attention and admiration to recede into obscurity. But that's what retired #SCC judges should do.
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