One would assume that in a legitimately objective legal system the courts (and especially a Supreme Court) must permit input from all relevant stakeholders. By deselecting LGBTQ intervenors in a case where LGBTQ rights and interests are fundamental to the matter at hand, the SCC's original position failed the test of objectivity. Imagine if the SCC were to hear and rule on an appeal application about a pipeline in northern Canada after deselecting intervenors representing aboriginal interests. It just wouldn't happen. And it shouldn't happen, just as it shouldn't in a case where LGBTQ interests as well as the legitimate right of LGBTQ citizens/residents to be protected from discrimination are at stake. This is not about special interests. It's about the right of people from a historically oppressed community to be able to protect themselves from discrimination. To shut them out of the process would have transformed the SCC into little more than a kangaroo court.