1. Jean Beetz served as a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1974 to 1988.
11 Facts About Jean Beetz
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Jean Beetz was the grandson of Adela Tanguay and Johan Beetz, a Belgian physician, surgeon, naturalist, illustrator and businessmen.
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Jean Beetz was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and attended Pembroke College, Oxford, where he received Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in 1953.
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Jean Beetz was called to the bar in Quebec before leaving for England on his Rhodes Scholarship.
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Jean Beetz taught there for twenty years, including serving as Dean of the Faculty of Law from 1968 to 1970.
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Jean Beetz had a reputation as a reflective and meticulous scholar and a wise and caring teacher.
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Jean Beetz was the Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet and Assistant Clerk of the Privy Council.
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Jean Beetz then served as Prime Minister Trudeau's Special Counsel on Constitutional Affairs.
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Jean Beetz served on that court for less than a year, being elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada on January 1,1974.
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Jean Beetz wrote a lengthy decision outlining the doctrinal basis for the emergency branch, and concluded that the Act did not meet the necessary strict test for federal legislation under this power.
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Jean Beetz participated in the 1981 Patriation Reference, which considered Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's attempt to have the federal government unilaterally patriate the Constitution of Canada without the consent of the provinces.