Judge to chair Mulroney Inquiry was appointed by Muloney

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Justice Oliphant was appointed on August 22, 1985 as a Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba. On December 24, 1990 he was appointed as Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba. He was appointed a Deputy Judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice in October 2002 and is a former Chair of the Judicial Inquiry Board of Manitoba.

http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/06/12/mulroney-inquiry-the-oliphant-in-the-room/

(From Kady O'Malley's blog)

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Personally, I can't go along with this. There is just too much conflict of interest, no matter what anyone says.

On edit: It looks like Winston Smith is working at the CBC:

"Oliphant was appointed to the bench by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau in 1985."

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/06/12/mulroney-schreiber.html

How does that work, given that Mulroney was elected in Sept 1984?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_federal_election%2C_1984