Ukraine is looking for Canada’s backing as the embattled eastern European country establishes a special court to deal with anti-corruption cases.
Legislation to set up the separate judicial framework is still making its way through the Ukrainian parliament, but the country’s deputy Speaker Oksana Syroyid said her government needs other nations to help select independent-minded judges.
Syroyid is in Ottawa for three days of meetings with Canadian officials, where she is pressing the case for judicial reform, but also explaining the growing complexities of the war with Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. …read more
Source: National Newswatch
