M-472 Supreme Court judges from Quebec

That the House concur in the motion adopted by the National Assembly of Québec on October 29, 2013, and therefore: (a) recognize that the Supreme Court Act stipulates that three of the Supreme Court judges shall be from Québec and that they shall be appointed from among the judges of the Court of Appeal or of the Superior Court of Québec or from among practicing lawyers who are members of the Québec Bar; (b) recognize that this guarantee preserves Québec’s distinctiveness and civil law tradition and cannot be altered or otherwise modified without the consent of the National Assembly of Québec; (c) support Québec’s historic position that the three Québec judges on the Supreme Court should be selected from among the candidates recommended by the Attorney General of Québec to the federal government; and (d) affirm that three judges from Québec must be on the Supreme Court when cases that are of major importance to Québec are heard.