Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, has announced the nomination of Justice Malcolm Rowe to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Rowe was first appointed as a trial judge in 1999, he has sat on the Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador since 2001. Throughout his career, working for the Federal Government, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and in private law practice, he was involved in constitutional matters, foreign relations, the arbitration of maritime boundaries, and the negotiation of conventional law through the United Nations.
Rowe has been nominated to fill the vacancy left by Justice Thomas Cromwell who retired from the Supreme Court of Canada on September 1, 2016.