Women’s coalition gets status at hearing into judge’s sex assault comments
CALGARY — A coalition of women’s groups says it has been granted intervener status at a public hearing for a federal court judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together.
A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry scheduled for September is to determine whether Justice Robin Camp should be removed from his job.
Camp, who was a provincial court judge in Calgary when he made the comments in 2014, has said he wants to keep serving on the bench and plans to apologize at the hearing.
West Coast LEAF, which advocates for equality of women in the justice system, says it has joined with several other women’s groups and will make arguments about the impact of Camp’s comments.