Ian Mulgrew: Judicial complaint smacks of secrecy all too common among Canada’s elite

In the middle of the afternoon of Jan. 29, Jon Crump was still simmering over the previous night’s dust-up.

The 31-year-old veteran of the U.S. Marines had read an article on the Internet about the 57-year-old he punched — the old boy really was a somebody. That surprised him.

The fellow who spoiled Crump’s evening with his girlfriend at a five-star Arizona resort turned out to be exactly who he claimed to be — Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown.

The newspaper piece incensed him.

It was an account of Brown’s October speech in Vancouver for a dinner after the Red Mass, an ecumenical Roman Catholic rite from the Middle Ages to mark the traditional start of the legal year.