{"id":2277,"date":"2021-06-19T21:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-19T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-583903-1890774.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2021-07-02T22:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T22:08:24","slug":"ottawa-nominates-first-person-of-color-for-canadas-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/06\/19\/ottawa-nominates-first-person-of-color-for-canadas-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Nominates First Person of Color for Canada\u2019s Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated the first person of color to Canada\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau made the announcement through Twitter of this \u201chistoric nomination\u201d on Thursday. In its 146-year existence, the country\u2019s top court has only ever had white justices, but with the most recent appointment of Kenyan-born Mahmud Jamal, it seems it&#8217;s one step closer to change.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is a formality, Jamal must still be vetted by the House of Commons Justice Committee.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GSoW3zCU3b?amp=1\"><strong>announcement issued by Trudeau through Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, he said \u201cHe\u2019ll be a valuable asset to the Supreme Court \u2013 and that\u2019s why, today, I\u2019m announcing his historic nomination to our country\u2019s highest court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Justice Mahmud Jamal has had a distinguished career, throughout which he\u2019s remained dedicated to serving others. He\u2019ll be a valuable asset to the Supreme Court &#8211; and that\u2019s why, today, I\u2019m announcing his historic nomination to our country\u2019s highest court. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GSoW3zCU3b\">https:\/\/t.co\/GSoW3zCU3b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinTrudeau\/status\/1405565742762844161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mahmud Jamal has been a judge for Ontario\u2019s Court of Appeal since 2019. Prior to that, he worked for decades as a litigator and taught at two of Canada\u2019s top law schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated the first person of color to Canada\u2019s Supreme Court. Trudeau made the announcement through Twitter of this \u201chistoric nomination\u201d on Thursday. In its 146-year existence, the country\u2019s top court has only ever had white justices, but with the most recent appointment of Kenyan-born Mahmud Jamal, it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2282,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions\/2282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}