OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Justice Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court of Canada, his office announced Monday.
Nadon replaces former Justice Morris Fish, who retired on Aug. 31.
Nadon was born in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec and has been a Federal Court of Appeal judge since 2001. He will appear before an ad hoc committee of parliamentarians on Wednesday.
“I am pleased to announce the nomination of Mr. Justice Nadon, whose extraordinary body of legal work – as a longtime judge on both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal; judicial member of the Competition Tribunal; expert in maritime and transportation law with almost 20 years as a practicing member of the Barreau du Québec; arbitrator; teacher; and author – makes him an ideal candidate for the Supreme Court of Canada,” Harper said in a statement.
“His nomination is the result of an extensive review process that included consultations with prominent members of the legal community in Québec.”
He joins current judges Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and Justices Louis LeBel, Rosalie Silberman Abell, Marshall Rothstein, Thomas Albert Cromwell, Michael J. Moldaver, Andromache Karakatsanis, and Richard Wagner.
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