Justice Lucie Lamarre appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada – two new appointments made as well

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The Hon. Justice Lucie Lamarre was appointed today as the new Associate Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada. She replaces the Hon. Justice Eugene Rossiter who was appointed Chief Justice earlier. The Hon. Justice Dominique Lafleur and the Hon. Justice Slyvain Ouimet were also appointed to the Tax Court today.

TAX COURT OF CANADA JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED

OTTAWA, February 6, 2015 – The Honourable Peter MacKay, P.C., Q.C., M.P. for Central Nova, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments:

The Honourable Dominique Lafleur, a lawyer with KPMG in Montreal is appointed a judge of the Tax Court of Canada to replace Madam Justice L. Lamarre, who has been appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Tax Court of Canada.

Madam Justice Lafleur received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Montréal in 1989 and a Master’s degree in Taxation from the University of Sherbrooke in 1993. She was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1990.

Madam Justice Lafleur had been a lawyer with KPMG in Montreal since 2014. Prior to that, she had been counsel with Heenan Blaikie LLP, LLC in Montréal (1996-2014) and with Mendelson Rosentzveig Schacter (1991-96) working in the area of taxation. She had been a member of the consultative committee and Chair of Taxation and Public Finance at the University of Sherbrooke since 2006 and had been a speaker at study sessions and conferences on taxation for the Canadian Tax Foundation.

The Honourable Sylvain Ouimet, a lawyer with the Department of Justice Canada in Ottawa and Montreal is appointed a judge of the Tax Court of Canada to replace Mr. Justice P. Bédard, who resigned effective August 31, 2014.

Mr. Justice Ouimet received a Bachelor in Business Administration (Finance) from l’Université du Québec à Montréal in 1993 and a Bachelor of Laws from l’Université de Montréal in 1997. He also earned a “Certificat en initiation au droit français” from l’Université de Poitiers in France in 1996. He was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in 1999.

Mr. Justice Ouimet had been a lawyer with the Department of Justice’s Ottawa and Montreal offices working in the area of taxation since 2002. Previously, he had been a competition law officer for Industry Canada in Gatineau (2001-02) and an analyst for Laboratoires Abbott Limitée in Montreal (2000).

These appointments are effective immediately.

http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/news-nouv/ja-nj/2015/doc_33098.html

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