Murray Sinclair
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The Honourable Murray Sinclair |
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| Senator for Manitoba | |
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Assumed office March 18, 2016 |
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| Nominated by | Justin Trudeau |
| Appointed by | David Johnston |
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January 24, 1951 Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada |
| Political party | Independent Senators Group |
| Profession | Judge |
Murray Sinclair (born January 24, 1951) is a Canadian politician, former judge, First Nations lawyer, and was the chair of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He is the first aboriginal judge appointed in Manitoba. Sinclair was appointed to the Canadian Senate on March 18, 2016.
Sinclair was born on January 24, 1951 and raised in the Selkirk area north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, graduating from his high school as class valedictorian and Athlete of the Year in 1968. Justice Sinclair was an Air Cadet with 6 Jim Whitecross Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron for several years.
After serving as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of Manitoba, Justice Sinclair continued his academic career at University of Winnipeg, studying sociology with a history minor in 1975. He studied at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba, and graduated in 1979.
He was called to the Manitoba Bar in 1980. In the course of his legal practice, Justice Sinclair practiced primarily in the fields of Civil and Criminal Litigation Human Rights and Aboriginal Law. He represented a cross section of clients but by the time of his judicial appointment, was known for his representation of Aboriginal people and his knowledge of Aboriginal legal issues.
When he was appointed as Associate Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Manitoba in March 1988, Sinclair was the first Aboriginal judge in the province.
Justice Sinclair was appointed Co-Commissioner, along with Court of Queen's Bench Associate Chief Justice A. C. Hamilton, of Manitoba's Public Inquiry into the Administration of Justice and Aboriginal People (The Aboriginal Justice Inquiry). In November 2000, Justice Sinclair completed the "Report of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest," a study into the deaths of twelve children in the pediatric cardiac surgery program of the HSC (Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre) in 1994. That report has led to significant changes in pediatric cardiac surgery in Manitoba and the study of medical error in Canada.
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