Michel Bastarache was born on 1947 and is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and retired puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada.
10 Facts About Michel Bastarache
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Michel Bastarache received a Licence d'etudes superieures en droit public from the University of Nice in 1972.
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Michel Bastarache received a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1978.
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Michel Bastarache was called to the New Brunswick Bar in 1980, the Alberta Bar in 1985, and the Ontario Bar in 1986.
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Michel Bastarache was appointed to the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in 1995 and then promoted to the Supreme Court in 1997.
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Michel Bastarache retired from the Supreme Court, effective June 30,2008, and joined the Ottawa office of Canadian law firm Heenan Blaikie.
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Michel Bastarache was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition "for his lifelong commitment to the promotion of linguistic duality and the protection of minority rights, as a law professor and a judge" in 2009.
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Michel Bastarache stated his intention to contact the greatest number of claimants possible and to interview many of them personally.
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Michel Bastarache explained that to ensure the confidentiality of the claimants, the federal government would transfer to a fiduciary account under his control the amounts required for the compensation payments and that he would make the payments directly to claimants.
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Michel Bastarache was designated the "sole and independent decision maker" for the claims process.