His boss, Chief Justice Heather Smith, wrote to Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, for her blessing. The crisis at the law school was real. Only five years old, the law faculty, with Indigenous law one of its main focuses, had lost its dean — an Indigenous American woman and legal scholar named Angelique EagleWoman — in April of this year. And yes, as the CBC pointed out in another story the next day, Smith was the judge who sentenced six Indigenous leaders to jail in 2007. The only possible sin Smith appears guilty of is not being Indigenous.

Source: National Post September 27, 2018 00:33 UTC