Marc Nadon

Expert Overview

Marc Nadon was born in Saint-Jerome, Quebec in 1949. After graduating from the law faculty of the University of Sherbrooke in 1974, he began the practice of law with the firm of Martineau Walker (now Fasken) where he practiced in the field of maritime law until his appointment to the Federal court of Canada, trial division, in June of 1993.

As a trial judge Marc heard cases falling within the powers of the federal government, namely amongst others, Indian affairs, immigration, intellectual property, maritime law, national security and all administrative matters pertaining to the federal bureaucracy. During that time he was a designated judge for national security matters and a member of the Competition tribunal. In December of 2001 he was appointed to the federal court of appeal where he heard appeals from the trial division, the tax court of Canada and from a number of administrative tribunals, including the CRTC and the Transport board of Canada.

In October of 2013 Marc was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada by prime minister Stephen Harper. In march 2014 the Supreme Court held that Marc, and all other Quebec judges sitting in either the Federal court or the Federal court of appeal, were ineligible to sit on the Supreme Court. Marc then returned to the Federal court of appeal from which he retired in July 2021.