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On Saturday, Sean Fine of TheGlobe and Mail published a very interesting article positing that a “liberal” consensus on the Supreme Court that has existed for the past four decades has “fractured” in recent years. The well-researched piece brings public consciousness and data to a real trend. There has been markedly less unanimity on the Supreme Court in recent years.

Justices Suzanne Côté, Russell Brown, and Malcolm Rowe have agreed with each other frequently in deciding cases in the same way. Justice Michael Moldaver and, less frequently, Chief Justice Richard Wagner, have often joined them, arriving at majority opinions. But these two judges in the purported “centre” of the Court have also sided with the other four judges—Justices Rosalie Abella (now retired), Andromache Karakatsanis, Sheilah Martin, and Nicholas Kasirer—in just as many if not more high-profile decisions. And in the most important Supreme Court case in recent years, Vavilov v Canada, judge

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