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At first he aspired to a college appointment in Toronto but instead, perhaps through the influence of his brother William Collis, a lawyer in Lower Canada and later chief justice at Quebec, he was appointed in 1846 to the unpaid and part-time position of principal of McGill College.
- Peter Oliver
- MEREDITH, EDMUND ALLEN
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 12
In 1910, Mr. Justice William Meredith was appointed to a Royal Commission to study workers’ compensation. His final report, known as the Meredith Report was produced in 1913. The Meredith Report outlined a trade-off in which workers’ relinquish their right to sue in exchange for compensation benefits.
- Who Holds The Title?
- Will Meredith Be The First to Lose The Title?
- Who Else Could Be Stripped of The Title?
Meredith has a title that only a few Canadians can legally use. The title of "honourable" is given to senators — and members of the King's Privy Council, such as cabinet ministers — for life. There are six categories of people in Canada who can use the title: 1. The Governor General of Canada, who is styled "right honourable" for life. 2. The Lieut...
While Meredith likely would be the first senator to lose the title, he wouldn't necessarily be the first Canadian to do so. Conrad Black, who was appointed a privy councillor in 1992, lost his "honourable" title as a result of being removed from the council in 2014. CBC asked the Governor General's office if Simon would follow through on the Senate...
The motion may also apply to Raymond Lavigne, a former Quebec senator who served time for fraud and breach of trust. Lavigne was convicted of defrauding the Senate with more than $10,000 in bogus travel expense claims in 2011. He was sentenced to six months in jail followed by six months of house arrest. He resigned from the Senate 10 days after th...
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Though the Merediths were Anglo-Irish, his paternal grandmother was from a prominent Catholic family in Ireland and so the Catholic population in Ontario had initially hailed Meredith as one of their own.
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