Quebec jurist Richard Wagner will be sworn in as Canada’s new chief justice with a ceremony at Ottawa’s Rideau Hall today.
Gov. Gen. Julie Payette will preside over the ceremony. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among those in attendance.
The ceremony begins at 9:30 a.m. ET and CBCNews.ca will carry it live.
Wagner, 60, the senior Quebec judge on the bench, succeeds Beverley McLachlin who retired Friday after 17 years as chief justice.
He was nominated to the high court in 2012 by then Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Wagner served on the Quebec Superior Court and the Quebec Court of Appeal. Before his judicial appointment, he had a commercial litigation practice focusing on real estate and professional liability insurance. He is the middle son of former Quebec provincial Liberal cabinet minister and former federal Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Claude Wagner.
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