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Template:CanadaSupremeCourtbio/doc

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Usage

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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

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  • 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

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