Prime Minister announces appointments to the Senate

Prime Minister Paul Martin announced today that Her Excellency the Governor General has agreed to summon Yoine Goldstein and Francis Fox of Quebec to the Senate.

Biographies are attached.


Yoine Goldstein

Yoine Goldstein is a leading member of Canada’s legal community and one of the most respected lawyers in Canada, notably in Quebec.  He is currently working at the law firm Goldstein, Flanz & Fishman.  Throughout his career, he has distinguished himself as a member of the executive committee of the Barreau de Montréal and the Insolvency Committee of the Canadian Bar Association.  His expertise in the insolvency field garnered him a position in 2003 as special counsel to the Senate Standing Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, and in 2001 and 2002 as chair of the federal Personal Insolvency Task Force.  His knowledge of insolvency law is recognized throughout Canada and worldwide, and he has published extensively on that topic.  He graduated from the Law Faculty of McGill University in 1958 and completed his studies in France, where he obtained a Doctorate of Law from the Université de Lyon in 1960.  He was called to the Bar in 1961.  Yoine Goldstein has been a very active member in Canada’s Jewish community, serving in numerous volunteer positions.  He has received a host of professional and volunteer awards and is a long-serving member on numerous foundations.  He has two children and lives in Montreal with his wife Elaine.  Yoine Goldstein will sit in the Senate as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.


Francis Fox

A Member of Parliament from 1972 to 1984, the Honourable Francis Fox also held numerous ministerial portfolios.  He served as Solicitor General of Canada, then Minister of Communications, and then Minister for International Trade.  From 2003 to 2004, Francis Fox was Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Canada.  A graduate of the University of Montreal, Harvard Law School and Oxford University, he began his career in the mid-1960s as a Special Assistant in the Prime Minister’s Office.  After having served in that capacity for six years and then for twelve years in the House of Commons, Francis Fox practiced law with the firm of Fasken Martineau from 1985 to 1997.  Through the 1990s and until 2003, he held positions in the senior management of Rogers, a telecommunications company.  Since the fall of 2004, Francis Fox has been working as a partner with the law firm of Fasken Martineau Du Moulin.  He is also involved in the cultural and sports communities and recently became a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and of Tennis Canada.  He is the father of three children, and currently resides in Montreal with his wife, Viviane Case Fox.  Francis Fox will be sitting in the Senate as a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.