Chief Justice Richard Wagner disappointed in Canada

Ben Woodfinden/National Post: Wagner is not obliged to retire until 2032, so there will be more Junes like this one. But he keeps missing the lesson buried in his own complaint. The harder a chief justice works to defend his court’s legitimacy in public, the more he advertises a doubt that it can stand on its own. A confident judiciary does not need a yearly press conference, or a bronze bust, or a running commentary on the health of our constitutional democracy. It lets the work speak. The defensiveness is the tell…