Rock amigo on glide path to bench 

Frank  Magazine

 Issue 213 

14 February 1996 

After years of slapping the right backs and licking the best Guccis, legalist Colin McKinnon is poised for the party pay-off: a judgeship to the Ontario general division. 

The indefatigable blowhard is a 2:1 favourite, ahead of David Hill (3:1) and deLoeb Panet (2.5:1) for a bench appointment, due to be announced by March. 

Ever since his days as a St. Pat’s College undergrad, McKinnon has been in love with the sound of his own voice.  More important, as the consummate boys’ club smoothie, he has impeccable Liberal connections. 

Colin attended Ottawa U. law school with Sgt. Alan Rock and remains close friends with the Justice Minister. 

McKinnon is such a braunnoser that he has been overheard opining that Rock’s wife, Deborah, is “sexy” (“handsome,” surely?! – ed.) McKinnon is also tight with Hugh Poulin, a former colleague who toiled on the grit backbenches in the Trudeau era, before being appointed to the bench. 

If recent appointments are any indication, there’s one other factor in Colin’s favour – standards are slipping.  Even Lloyd Brennan hit the jackpot with a judgeship last year, thus avoiding embarrassing questions from creditors.