Template:CanadaSupremeCourtbio

Supreme Court of Canada biography

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Usage

This template creates an external link to the official biography of a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (MNA). The Supreme Court website has biographies of all past and present justices.

{{CanadaSupremeCourtbio|####}}

or

{{CanadaSupremeCourtbio|ID=####}}

Description of parameters

• ID (or just use unnamed first parameter): This is part of the URL for the Justices's biography. In most (but not all) cases, this will just be the surname, in lowercase. To look it up:

1. Go to

   https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/cfcju-jucp-eng.aspx (for chief justices)

   https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/cfpju-jupp-eng.aspx (for puisne judges)

2. Find the judges's name in the resulting listing, and extract the part of the URL following https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=

Example: {{CanadaSupremeCourtbio|cannon}} for Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon

Result: Supreme Court of Canada biography

Optional parameters

• text : The link text. By default, this is "Supreme Court of Canada biography"

See also

• List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada

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