Tories defend appointment of judge who, as a lawyer, worked for Hells Angels

[CHIMO]

OTTAWA—The Conservative government is defending its nomination of a Quebec judge who used to be a lawyer for members of the Hells Angels.

The Tories named Jacques Leger, a former Conservative party president, to the Quebec Court of Appeal in January 2009.

But media reports have revealed that Leger advised members of the biker gang on commercial rights before he became a Quebec Superior Court justice in 2006.

The NDP and Bloc Quebecois blasted the government during question period over Leger’s nomination.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/802683--tories-defend-appointment-of-judge-who-as-a-lawyer-worked-for-hells-angels?bn=1

Defending people is part of what lawyers have to do.

But having the flags waved and still continuing in this seems to be wrong.

Looks like perhaps the Hells Angels may have enveloped Harper.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

1. A third connection to the Hell's Angels!

Just who is running our govt anyway??

[daleo]

2. It is an interesting series of events.

Laureen has a thing for motorcycles. Just saying.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

3. Good point!

:rofl:

[BolivarianHero]

4. It's like fucking Japan...

The corrupt, conservative LDP's far-right factions had intimate relationships with the Yakuza.

Either way, this asshole will throw the book at independent cannabis growers to make his gangster-rapist-druglord buddies happ.

[edwinmathews]

5. Do we

really want to base who can be a judge on who they have defended in the past ?

[ZeitgeistObserver]

6. It was the way Cons determined it in the past.

Stockwell Day once publically went on a crusade against a lawyer because the lawyer had as I recall, a pedophile client in the past.

But they use lawyers who have defended neo-nazis and Hells Angels in the past.

[daleo]

7. Not as long as that's all it is

Though I doubt that most Conservatives would be as reasonable about the matter, given their disparagement of "trial lawyers".