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An inquiry committee of the Canadian Judicial Council on Wednesday recommended, unanimously, that Judge Robin Camp, now of the Federal Court, be removed from the bench.

“We conclude that Justice Camp’s conduct is so manifestly and profoundly destructive of the concept of the impartiality, integrity and independence of the judicial role that public confidence is sufficiently undermined to render the judge incapable of executing the judicial office,” the committee said.

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It was extraordinary language. But then, Camp’s courtroom conduct, in his earlier incarnation as an Alberta provincial court judge, had been equally extraordinary.

It wasn’t just that Camp acquitted a man of the sexual assault of a 19-year-old homeless indigenous girl. It wasn’t just that he stepped outside the role of impartial judge, and turned himself into some kind of Grand Inquisitor, cross-examining the teen with salacious questions about why she hadn’t just kept her knees together or moved her pelvis out of the way. And it wasn’t just that he went off on a rant about the girl’s amorality, berating the teen, whom he kept calling the accused, for sneaking into movie theatres without paying, for shoplifting, for not getting a job.