21/11/25 Canada 🇨🇦

Danielle Stevens

By email: dannistevens 18@gmail.com

Dear Danielle Stevens,

I am responding to your correspondence to the Canadian Judicial Council (Council) sent on July 21. 2025, in which you indicate that you are lodging a formal misconduct complaint against the following senior legal officials employed by the Government of Canada:

: Hon Ga Curise,, i Minor Just end Atone entroo Canada,

You further indicate that, in your opinion, these individuals have failed to uphold Canada's binding international legal obligations under the following treaties:

: The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969)

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

• The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

• The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

• The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)

Mandate of the Council

The mandate of the Council in matters of judicial conduct includes determining whether a recommendation should be made to the Minister of Justice that a federally appointed judge be removed from office by Parliament. The reasons for removal are set out in section 80 of the Judges Act and address infirmity, misconduct, failure in the due execution of judicial office, and when the judge is in a position that a reasonable, fair-minded and informed observer would consider to be incompatible with the due execution of judicial office. In the alternative, the Council may determine that other remedial measures are appropriate in some instances as per section 102 of the Judges Act.

Reasons for dismissing your complaint

The Council is an administrative tribunal that was created to deal with complaints about the conduct of judges. It is important to note that the Council's authority over judicial conduct is limited to the

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conduct of federally appointed judges, only. In your correspondence, you do not make any reference to a federally appointed judge. Furthermore, your correspondence does not specify any recognizable alleged misconduct on the part of any federally appointed judge. Therefore, the Council does not have any jurisdiction to deal with your correspondence.

To reiterate, subsection 86(1) of the Judges Act reads as follows:

86 (1) Complaints may be made to the Council, in the form specified by the Council, in respect of a judge of a superior court for any reason referred to in paragraphs 80(a) to (d).

Your matter is therefore dismissed pursuant to paragraphs 6.7(2) (g) and (h) of the Canadian Judicial Council Procedures for the Review of Complaints or Allegations About Federally Appointed Judges (Review Procedures (2025)) because it fails to specify allegations and it fails to specify the name of a judge.

The Council acknowledges your concerns about the actions or inactions of certain public officials, but notes that it is not the proper forum to address those concerns