Speeches

• Annual News Conference with the Chief Justice of Canada
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  June 3, 2024
• Annual News Conference with the Parliamentary Press Gallery
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  June 13, 2023
• SCC Visit to Quebec City - Public Meeting
  Words of Welcome from the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  September 14, 2022
• Remarks Prior to the First Hearing in Quebec City
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  September 14, 2022
• News Conference with Media in Quebec City
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  September 12, 2022
• Annual News Conference with the Parliamentary Press Gallery
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  June 16, 2022
• Annual News Conference with the Parliamentary Press Gallery
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  June 17, 2021
• Ethical Principles and Cultural Competence: a duty to learn
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  May 6, 2021
• Chief Justice of Canada's annual press conference
  Opening statement by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  June 18, 2020
• The Court’s first hearing fully by video-conference
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  June 9, 2020
• Meet the Judges: Get to Know Your Supreme Court at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (Winnipeg)
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  September 25, 2019
• Words of Welcome on the occasion of the Court's first sitting outside of Ottawa
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  September 25, 2019
• The Cambridge Lectures 2019: Civility and Collegiality
  Remarks by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  July 4, 2019
• Chief Justice of Canada's annual press conference
  Opening statement by the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  June 20, 2019
• Access to Justice: A Societal Imperative
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  October 4, 2018
• Official Welcome Ceremony for the New Chief Justice
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.
  February 5, 2018
• Recipient of the G. Arthur Martin Medal from the Criminal Lawyers’ Association
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  October 28, 2017
• The Decline of Democracy and the Rule of Law: How to Preserve the Rule of Law and Judicial Independence?
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  September 28, 2017
• Remarks to the Council of the Canadian Bar Association at the Canadian Legal Conference
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  August 11, 2016
• Canada’s Legal System at 150: Democracy and the Judiciary
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  June 3, 2016
  
• The Legal Profession in the 21^st Century
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  August 14, 2015
  
• The Supreme Court of Canada
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  November 25, 2014
  
• Defining Moments: The Canadian Constitution
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  February 13, 2014
• Administrative Tribunals and the Courts: An Evolutionary Relationship
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  May 27, 2013
  
• Defining Moments: The Canadian Constitution
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  February 5, 2013
• The Relationship Between the Courts and the Media
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  January 31, 2012
• The Challenge of Fighting Terrorism While Maintaining our Civil Liberties
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  September 22, 2009
• Access to Information and Protection of Privacy in a Democracy
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  May 5, 2009
• Symons Lecture - 2008
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  October 21, 2008
• The Impact of the Supreme Court of Canada on Bilingualism and Biculturalism
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  February 6, 2008
• The Challenges We Face
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  March 8, 2007
• Judicial Accountability
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  November 2, 2006
• Unwritten Constitutional Principles: What is Going On?
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  December 1st, 2005
• Medicine and the Law: the Challenges of Mental Illness
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  February 17 and 18, 2005
• Respecting Democratic Roles
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  November 22, 2004
• Second International Conference on the Training of the Judiciary
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  November 1, 2004
• Globalization, Identity and Citizenship
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  October 26, 2004
• Swearing-in Ceremony of the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella
  Remarks of the Honourable Rosalie Silberman Abella
  October 4, 2004
• Remarks to the Council of the Canadian Bar Association
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  August 14, 2004
• Judging in a Democratic State
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  June 3, 2004
• Protecting Constitutional Rights: A Comparative View of the United States and Canada
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  April 5, 2004
• Remarks to the Vietnam-Canadian Business Association
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  November 28, 2003
• The Civilization of Difference
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  March 7, 2003
• Canadian Rights and Freedoms: 20 Years Under the Charter
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  April 17, 2002
• Judicial Independence
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  May 11, 2001
• The Role of Judges in Modern Society
  Remarks of the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C.
  May 5, 2001