Template:CanadaSupremeCourtbio
Supreme Court of Canada biography
Usage[edit]
This template creates an external link to the official biography of a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (MNA). The Supreme Court website has biographies of all past and present justices.
{{CanadaSupremeCourtbio|####}}
- or
{{CanadaSupremeCourtbio|ID=####}}
Description of parameters[edit]
- ID (or just use unnamed first parameter): This is part of the URL for the Justices's biography. In most (but not all) cases, this will just be the surname, in lowercase. To look it up:
- Go to
- https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/cfcju-jucp-eng.aspx (for chief justices)
- https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/cfpju-jupp-eng.aspx (for puisne judges)
- Find the judges's name in the resulting listing, and extract the part of the URL following
https://www.scc-csc.ca/judges-juges/bio-eng.aspx?id=
- Example:
{{CanadaSupremeCourtbio|cannon}}for Lawrence Arthur Dumoulin Cannon
- Example:
- Optional parameters
- text : The link text. By default, this is "Supreme Court of Canada biography"