“Let’s Get Down” at the Twitter Moot

David MacLean of Skunkworks covered the Twitter Moot in History Made in Twitter Moot,

…the informal atmosphere and peculiar affectations of twitter invariably played a part in the way the case was discussed.  Judge Omar Ha-Redeye began proceedings with the tweet, “Let’s get down,” which is an effective and lexically economical way to begin a Twitter Moot, but unlikely to catch on in the Supreme Court of Canada. At one point, Mathew Kalkman (tweeting for Team UBC and representing the Province of Alberta in the moot), argued his side by stating that an alternative interpretation of the discussed case would constitute a “hashtag fail.” Kalkman, the most comedic advocate on the day, also managed to include tweets referencing the Vic Toews/Vikileaks story, his own book on liberalism, blatant (and funny) pandering to a couple of the judges, and a great in-character rant all within his team’s 10-minute time allotment.