Paul S Rouleau is a justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada.
10 Facts About Paul Rouleau
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Paul Rouleau was the commissioner of the Public Order Emergency Commission that conducted the Inquiry into Emergencies Act mandated by law to study and report on the circumstances that led to the invoking of the Emergencies Act on February 14,2022 by the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the Canada convoy protests.
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Paul Rouleau received a Masters in Law from York University in 1984.
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In 1983, Paul Rouleau was part of John Turner's campaign for leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada after Pierre Trudeau announced retirement.
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Paul Rouleau was appointed as a Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 2005.
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Paul Rouleau was appointed as a Deputy Judge of the Supreme Court of Yukon in 2014, Nunavut Court of Justice in 2017 and Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories in 2017.
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Paul Rouleau was a founding member of the Association des juristes d'expression francaise de l'Ontario and was its President from 1985 to 1987.
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Paul Rouleau has served as Trustee of the Metropolitan Toronto Separate School Board from 1986 to 1991.
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Paul Rouleau is the recipient of several awards and recognitions, including an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from York University and the Ordre des francophones d'Amerique, awarded by the Conseil superieur de la langue francaise du Quebec.
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Toronto Sun opinion columnist Lorne Gunter criticized the report's conclusion, and wrote that "Paul Rouleau read into the Emergencies Act his own form of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause".