Before the bench: The summer job that shaped Judge Kael McKenzie’s respect for rules
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Before the bench: The summer job that shaped Judge Kael McKenzie’s respect for rules
ROSEMARY COUNTER
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The Honourable Kael McKenzie, who in 2015 became Canada’s first transgender judge when he was appointed to the bench in Winnipeg, spent his pre-law-school summers in cadet camp. But before that, he went through the menial job rite of passage. Judge McKenzie remembers a lucrative – f…
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