Canada’s Superior Court judges are taking the federal government to the Federal Court , where one of the esteemed justices will rule on whether Ottawa owes all senior judges a $28,000 pay rise.

So, no conflict of interest there then.

More accurately, he or she will adjudicate on whether Ottawa behaved in a “constitutionally defective” manner when it ignored the recommendation of an independent commission to award a pay increase, on top of index-linked raises.

The judges’ association claims the case is not about the money — a clear indicator that it is absolutely about the money — but, rather, it is about protecting Canadian democracy.

Judges, so the claim goes, are the foot soldiers of the Constitution and they really, really need to add another $28,000 to their $396,700 salaries t

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