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• $343,994 for Justice Richard Wagner (appointed in 2012);

• $313,872 combined for Justices Michael Moldaver and Andromache Karakatsanis (who were appointed at the same time in 2011);

• $91,246 for Justice Thomas Cromwell (2008);

• $203,345 for Justice Marshall Rothstein (2006)

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OTTAWA — The Conservative government spent approximately $245,000 on the selection process to get Marc Nadon onto the Supreme Court of Canada — only to have the top court rule he’s not eligible.

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The costs don’t include the roughly $146,500 in salary Nadon is estimated to have earned since he was nominated to the court, even though he didn’t take part in any court hearings or deliberations.

Documents tabled this week in the House of Commons show the federal government has spent between $91,000 and more than $300,000 on each of the individual appointment processes for the six judges — including Nadon — that Harper has named to the Supreme Court of Canada, so Nadon’s total is not out of line. The other nominees, however, were allowed to take their places on the court.