"let's be honest here"

Matthew Shogilev's recent argument at The Court that all judges appointed in Canad should be bilingual (Shogilev limits his prescription to Supreme Court justices, but his thesis ("those without a strong command of both official languages ... are not as well positioned to engage in effective statutory interpretation") applies a fortiori to judges at all levels - why would we want only SCC justices to be competent in "effective statutory interpretation"?) was rather adroitly addressed a couple of days later by Christopher Bird in the same forum.  A slightly more humorous riposte, though addressing largely the same underlying motivations, to the argument can be found here.