Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09OTTAWA146
2009-02-26 22:20:00
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Embassy Ottawa
Cable title:
FIRST NATIONS TRAILBLAZER IS CANADIAN CANDIDATE
how-toVZCZCXRO3910 OO RUEHGA RUEHHA RUEHMT RUEHQU RUEHVC DE RUEHOT #0146 0572220 ZNR UUUUU ZZH O 262220Z FEB 09 FM AMEMBASSY OTTAWA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 9110 INFO RUCNCAN/ALL CANADIAN POSTS COLLECTIVE PRIORITY RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0521
UNCLAS OTTAWA 000146
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
IO/MPR - BRIAN G. HACKETT, L/UNA - DARIN JOHNSON,
AND USUN/MR - BRUCE RASHKOW
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL ACBAQ AORC KUNR UNGA UNGA UNGA CA
SUBJECT: FIRST NATIONS TRAILBLAZER IS CANADIAN CANDIDATE
FOR UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL
REF: STATE 16118
UNCLAS OTTAWA 000146
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
IO/MPR - BRIAN G. HACKETT, L/UNA - DARIN JOHNSON,
AND USUN/MR - BRUCE RASHKOW
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL ACBAQ AORC KUNR UNGA UNGA UNGA CA
SUBJECT: FIRST NATIONS TRAILBLAZER IS CANADIAN CANDIDATE
FOR UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL
REF: STATE 16118
1. (SBU) Justice Rose Boyko is a "trailblazer among First
Nations people in Canada," according to Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) UN Section Deputy
Director Shannon Marie Soni. Soni added that Boyko was the
first aboriginal Canadian woman appointed as a superior court
judge in Canada after a long and distinguished career as
legal advisor in federal and provincial governments. DFAIT
conducted extensive vetting of Boyko, according to Soni, and
discovered no derogatory information with regard to her
judicial temperament or reputation for impartiality. Boyko
has been a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice (General
Division) since 1994, and a lawyer since 1982.
2. (SBU) Embassy investigation of open source material on
Justice Boyko yielded no adverse information. She is also a
former Vice President of the Indigenous Bar Association and
the current Vice President of the Canadian chapter of the
International Association of Women Judges. She is keenly
interested in social issues and attaches great importance to
maintaining her aboriginal identity and values, according to
media reports. She has also expressed interest publicly in
aboriginal sentencing circles to promote reconciliation
between the victims of crime and offenders.
3. (SBU) Soni also noted that Canada plans to support U.S.
candidate Judge Mark Painter.
Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at
http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/can ada
BREESE
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
IO/MPR - BRIAN G. HACKETT, L/UNA - DARIN JOHNSON,
AND USUN/MR - BRUCE RASHKOW
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: PREL ACBAQ AORC KUNR UNGA UNGA UNGA CA
SUBJECT: FIRST NATIONS TRAILBLAZER IS CANADIAN CANDIDATE
FOR UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL
REF: STATE 16118
1. (SBU) Justice Rose Boyko is a "trailblazer among First
Nations people in Canada," according to Department of Foreign
Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) UN Section Deputy
Director Shannon Marie Soni. Soni added that Boyko was the
first aboriginal Canadian woman appointed as a superior court
judge in Canada after a long and distinguished career as
legal advisor in federal and provincial governments. DFAIT
conducted extensive vetting of Boyko, according to Soni, and
discovered no derogatory information with regard to her
judicial temperament or reputation for impartiality. Boyko
has been a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice (General
Division) since 1994, and a lawyer since 1982.
2. (SBU) Embassy investigation of open source material on
Justice Boyko yielded no adverse information. She is also a
former Vice President of the Indigenous Bar Association and
the current Vice President of the Canadian chapter of the
International Association of Women Judges. She is keenly
interested in social issues and attaches great importance to
maintaining her aboriginal identity and values, according to
media reports. She has also expressed interest publicly in
aboriginal sentencing circles to promote reconciliation
between the victims of crime and offenders.
3. (SBU) Soni also noted that Canada plans to support U.S.
candidate Judge Mark Painter.
Visit Canada,s Economy and Environment Forum at
http://www.intelink.gov/communities/state/can ada
BREESE