Mr. Speaker, this past August 21, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court announced his resignation in the following words “Having heard 1,317 cases on the Supreme Court and written reasons in 345 of them, I have decided to hang up my robes early in the next millennium”.
Called to the Bar of Quebec in 1957, Antonio Lamer practiced criminal law until his appointment to the Quebec Superior Court on December 19, 1969. In 1978, he was appointed to the Quebec Court of Appeal. Two years later he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, and became Chief Justice of Canada on July 1, 1990.
Mr. Lamer has had an impressive career and the people of Canada wish him the best in his future endeavours.