Canada’s newest Supreme Court justice embraces an ‘abiding belief in pluralism’
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The newest member of Canada's highest court says the only unifying principle that seems to stitch his life together is an abiding belief in pluralism.
The newest member of Canada’s highest court says the only unifying principle that seems to stitch his life together is an abiding belief in pluralism.
Justice Mahmud Jamal, the first person of colour to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada, says that means faith in the inherent value of the diversity that is a hallmark of Canada.
Jamal was welcomed by a parade of legal luminaries in a ceremony at the court Thursday, though he was officially sworn in at a private event on Canada Day.
They praised his tireless work ethic, collegiality, modesty and efforts to advance the equality rights of Indigenous Peoples, access to justice and the rights of children.
The other eight members of the court were present, but due to COVID-19 precautions, many of Jamal’s family members and friends had to witness the ceremony virtually.
Born in 1967 in Nairobi, Kenya, to a family originally from India, Jamal moved two years later to Britain. In 1981, the family came to Canada, settling in Edmonton, where Jamal completed high school.
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Jamal’s wife also arrived in Canada as a teenager, a refugee from Iran fleeing the persecution of the Baha’i religious minority during the 1979 Revolution.
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