Canada’s chief justice’s U.S. “dictatorship” comment raises eyebrows

Wagner’s comments mark an unusually sharp and sweeping intervention from a sitting chief justice into the political discourse of a foreign democracy.

Source: Supreme Court of Canada

In a controversial move, Canada’s Chief Justice Richard Wagner appeared to wade headfirst into foreign political waters this week, warning that former U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticisms of the judiciary reflect a global slide toward what he claimed to be a “dictatorship.”