Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated the Honourable Mahmud Jamal for the Supreme Court of Canada.
The first person of colour to be nominated to Canada’s top court, he also taught constitutional law at McGill University and administrative law at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Jamal will replace Justice Rosalie Abella, currently the longest-serving Supreme Court justice, who will retire from the court on July 1, her 75th birthday.