‘A different perspective’: Justice Mahmud Jamal on minority rights, bilingualism and the Supreme Court
Settling into an imposing red leather armchair in a wood-panelled office in Ottawa, Justice Mahmud Jamal recalled his anxious first moments in this country as a 14-year-old immigrant. “I remember the first day here very well. I was scared,” he told Radio-Canada in a recent interview, describing the path that took him to the nation’s highest court —…