We have filed a complaint with the Canadian Judicial Council because the conduct we witnessed should never be normalized in a courtroom.
Judges hold extraordinary power. With that power comes an equally extraordinary obligation: fairness, impartiality, and respect for the law and the people standing before them. When behaviour falls short of that standard, the public must speak up. Silence is how bad practices become accepted practices.
So we filed.
Not because we expect miracles.
Not because we believe the system eagerly disciplines its own.
We filed because behaviour like this should not pass without scrutiny.
🏛️ The Reality of Self-Policing
Let’s be candid.
Self-governed institutions – whether professional orders, boards, or judicial oversight bodies – rarely move quickly or decisively against their own members. History shows this pattern again and again.
There is an old saying:
“One hand washes the other.”
When organizations investigate themselves, the results tend to be… restrained.
📌 Why File Anyway?
Because progress has never come from silence.
If everyone had simply accepted the norms of the time, society would still be defending ideas that today seem shocking – including the so-called “treatments” that once subjected gay people to electroshock therapy in the name of medicine.
Those practices ended because people challenged them.
Accountability begins with someone refusing to stay quiet.
So no – we are not holding our breath.
But we are also not staying silent.
