TO THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ONTARIO:
WHEREAS appointing tribunals and courts with partisan judges is a violation of our democratic rights to an independent and impartial judiciary;
WHEREAS we are seeing the impact with the Land Appeal Tribunal where 97% of decisions are against community members and municipalities and in favour of developers;
WHEREAS the Premier has indicated he wants to appoint Conservative judges;
WHEREAS the Attorney General was caught interviewing Chief Justice candidates; and
WHEREAS the government just appointed a prior Vice President of the Ontario PC party as an Ontario Court of Justice judge;
THEREFORE WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario to protect our charter right to an independent and impartial judiciary and to stop the appointment of partisan judges.