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加拿大法官在其工作和生活中遇到了无数十分棘手的职业道德问题。为了帮助法官克服这些困难，从而正常地履行司法职责，促进社会对法官角色和法官所处困境的理解，加拿大司法委员会自１９９４年起开始研究司法职业道德问题，成立了工作委员会，其成员包括几个省的首席大法官、法官协会代表和学者等。工作委员会用了四年的时间，广泛征集了司法部门和其他部门的意见，举行了５０多次各种类型的会议。同时，本文件的起草还得到了加拿大律师协会、加拿大法律协会联合会、地方法官协会、司法部、学术界的大力协助与支持。１９９８年１１月，加拿大首席大法官拉默尔发布了这一文件，期望它能成为公众与法官都能接受与承认的司法职业道德规范。
Judges in Canada have encountered countless very difficult professional ethics issues in their work and life. In order to help judges to overcome these difficulties so as to properly perform their judicial duties and promote social understanding of the role of judges and the plight of judges, the Judicial Council of Canada has been studying judicial professional ethics since 1994 and has set up a working committee consisting of several members Chief Justice of the provinces, representatives of judges associations and academics. The working committee took four years to solicit the opinions of the judiciary and other departments extensively and held more than 50 various types of meetings. At the same time, the drafting of this document has also been strongly assisted and supported by the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Association of Legal Associations, the Association of Magistrates, the Judiciary and academia. In November 1998, Canada’s chief justice Lamell released the document in the hope that it would become a judicial code of professional ethics acceptable to the public and to judges.