Canada's higher-courts judicial appointments system was intentionally built in the 1860s to keep magistrates isolated from local politicians' short term interests.
It works very well by any measure, as is. Don't Americanise it.
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Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he has no plans to change how judges are appointed in Canada after four premiers wrote to Prime Minister Mark Carney asking for more of a say in the process.
