This paper investigates the relationship betweendiffuse support for the Canadian Supreme Court (general, lastingattachments to the institution) and specific support (attitudes towardits policy outputs). We hypothesize that diffuse support for the Courtwill not be closely related to specific support until after 1988, whenthe Court began making a number of controversial decisions. Using datafrom 1987 and 1997 we test multivariate models of the determinants ofdiffuse support and discover that it is indeed correlated more withdemocratic norms than with attitudes toward specific policies in 1987,while the reverse is true in 1997. The fact that support for the Courtnow appears to be more closely tied to its outputs could have importantpolitical implications for the Court and its decisions.