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Jacques Shore is a partner in Gowlings' Ottawa office. He is the National Chair of the Firm's Government Industry Group and a member of the Advocacy Department. With extensive experience in both the private and public sectors, Jacques practises in the fields of administrative law, federal regulatory affairs and negotiations focusing on trade and procurement issues, nuclear energy and environmental issues, national security matters, aviation and aerospace, cultural policy, as well as government relations and government advisory work.
An adviser to numerous Canadian and international companies and business interests on legal, government and public law issues, Jacques has also acted as lead negotiator on many business and government-related initiatives. In addition, he has extensive experience dealing with and advising not-for-profit corporations and non-governmental organizations. Jacques has worked actively on behalf of the federal government of Canada on a broad range of legal and public policy matters.
Prior to joining Gowlings, Jacques was the first director of research of the security intelligence review committee, Parliament’s watchdog body reviewing the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and a senior staff member of the Macdonald Royal Commission on the Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada. His responsibilities included legal/constitutional work and coordinating the research effort on the Northern Territories. As well, Jacques assisted in the research and writing initiatives for portions of the Royal Commission's final report.
Jacques has played an active role in developing professional legal activities internationally and, specifically, in Central and Eastern Europe.
In addition to his law practice, Jacques is an active member of Gowlings' National External Management Committee.
He speaks English, French and Polish and has a functional knowledge of German.
Jacques served for five years as Canada's chief negotiator on the Algonquins of Golden Lake land claim, and lead a team of lawyers in providing legal counsel to the Office of the Interim Commissioner for Nunavut during the final phase leading up to the division of the Northwest Territories. He has also worked on several government commissions of inquiry; most recently acting as Co-Lead Counsel to the Air India Victims Families Association before the Federal Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Air India Flight 182.
Jacques is legal counsel to the Canadian Judicial Council, and since its inception in 2002, is general counsel to the General Insurance OmbudService, a national body organized by federal regulators and the insurance industry to address consumer complaints.
Starting his professional career in Ottawa in 1980, Jacques spent two years advising on criminal justice issues at the Secretariat of the Ministry of the Solicitor General and assisted in the co-ordination of the Federal-Provincial Ministers' conferences on criminal justice. A published writer, Jacques has authored many articles on legal issues and public policy. He has also written many commentaries for a variety of newspapers and journals including, the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen, and Le Devoir, and is the author of two children’s books, one of which received an “Our Choice” Award from the Canadian Children’s Book Centre in 2004. As someone who enjoys to paint and draw, most recently Jacques illustrated a published book of short stories. He is a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada.
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