Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette isn t the only one who has appointed a friend: his colleague, Finance Minister Eric Girard, admitted Saturday that he had done the same. Just last week, Girard reappointed his "personal friend" Jean-François Blais to the board of directors of Loto-Québec.
Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette and Court of Quebec Chief Justice Lucie Rondeau reached a compromise Friday that will see 14 new judges added to the Court of Quebec s current complement this year, while judges will sit a few more days a year.
Quebec s judicial council has begun examining a complaint against Judge Matthieu Poliquin, the young judge who granted a conditional discharge to engineer Simon Houle last June after he pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault and voyeurism for his actions in 2019.
Although our project is thwarted by Canadian multiculturalism. the French language must really become the language of use of all Quebecers, Simon Jolin-Barrette told the Academie Francaise. Premier Legault later said he opposes multiculturalism, too.