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“How these things get debated in Parliament is a little bit of an unknown, because there has never been a joint address or joint declaration in Parliament regarding a judge’s removal. Judges have resigned or retired when it has gotten to that point,” said Johanna Laporte, the council’s director of communications.

“We don’t quite know how that would work. Presumably the House of Commons would debate and then the Senate would debate and then they would have a vote. It remains to be seen.”

Laporte said several years ago an MP said he wanted a judge, whose future was set to be debated, to appear before Parliament.

“That might be something they would want. That might be something the judge would request. We don’t know.”

Court transcripts from a 2014 sexual assault trial show Camp, who was a provincial court judge at the time, called the complainant, who was homeless and 19 years old at the time of the alleged assault, “the accused” numerous times — a mistake he repeated at the judicial council hearing before correcting himself.

During the trial, he also told the young woman “pain and sex sometimes go together” and asked why she didn’t just keep her “knees together.”

Camp acquitted Alexander Wagar, but the verdict was overturned on appeal and a new trial was ordered. A verdict in the retrial is expected this month.

Camp’s lawyer, Frank Addario, has argued his client should be allowed to keep his current job as a federal court judge.