Two new judges have been appointed to the Tax Court of Canada.
From the news release published by the Department of Justice:
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.
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