On October 20, 2016, the Government of Canada announced reforms to the superior courts judicial appointments process. As part of these changes and in order to increase transparency and rigour, the Government mandated the Office of the Commissioner for Judicial Affairs to collect and publish statistics and demographic information on judicial applicants and appointees. Based on voluntary disclosure by candidates through self-identification in the Questionnaire for judicial appointment, these statistics relate to diversity (see p. 3 of the candidates’ Questionnaire) and language proficiency (see p. 6 of the Questionnaire).

	Total	Gender			Diversity						Language Abilities in both Official Languages
		Male	Female	Other	Indigenous	Visible Minority	Ethnic/Cultural Group or other	Persons with Disability	LGBTQ2	Woman	Read court materials	Discuss legal matters	Converse with counsel	Understand oral submissions	All 4 abilities2
Applications Received	252	115	137	0	10	24	44	5	16	137	93	83	77	82	73
Candidates Assessed	629	343	286	0	23	58	126	16	33	286	248	199	201	211	187
Candidates Highly Rec.1	125	61	64	0	5	11	20	0	5	64	50	44	43	44	41
Candidates Recommended1	132	63	69	0	3	9	24	3	8	69	50	38	38	43	38
Candidates Unable to Rec.1	372	219	153	0	15	38	82	13	20	153	148	117	120	124	108
Candidates Appointed	79	33	46	0	3	7	11	2	6	46	26	23	22	23	21

Please note that in addition to the 79 candidates appointed, 19 other judges were appointed or elevated to other courts during the same period; 8 men and 11 women. For example, this would include judges appointed to courts of appeal from the trial level courts. There were therefore 98 appointments during this period.

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Other Periods:

• October 21, 2016 – October 27, 2017

Please note that statistics prior to October 2016 can be found on the Report of Activity of the Judicial Advisory Committees across Canada page.