Judge fights for job despite ‘inappropriate’ views on Indigenous people, women – CBC
Nov 26, 2019
Judge Donald Norheim sat for 27 years in Hinton, Alta.
An Alberta judge has lost his job over “completely inappropriate” beliefs and behaviours involving his views on Indigenous people and victims of domestic and sexual assault.
But Judge Donald Norheim is fighting to get his job back, filing an application for a judicial review of the decision by Alberta provincial court Chief Judge Terry Matchett not to reappoint him.
Norheim called the move “fundamentally unfair.”
He was informed of the decision in August.
“Your beliefs or behaviours in many cases are completely inappropriate for any judge,” Matchett wrote in an email to Norheim on Aug. 14, 2019.
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