Jean Bazin is a Canadian

Canada

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 lawyer and former senator.

Born in Quebec City

Quebec City

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, he received a B.Comm. and an LL.L. from Université Laval

Université Laval

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 in 1964. He was elected president of the Canadian Union of Students for the 1964-65 school year. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1965. He was appointed Queen's Counsel

Queen's Counsel

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 in 1984. From 1987 to 1988, he was the president of the Canadian Bar Association

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. He is a lawyer and partner with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP

Fraser Milner Casgrain

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.

He acts as commercial arbitrator and mediator in a number of fields.

In 1986, he was appointed to the Senate representing the senatorial division of De la Durantaye, Quebec. He sat as a Progressive Conservative

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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 and he resigned in 1989.

As reported in Le Devoir

Le Devoir

Le Devoir is a French-language newspaper published in Montreal and distributed in Quebec and the rest of Canada. It was founded by journalist, politician, and nationalist Henri Bourassa in 1910....

newspaper of January 29 2004, Jean Bazin was hired as spokesmen for the Quebec government. His mandate was to help resolve leadership issues within the Kanesatake community.

He sits on a number of boards such the board of directors

Board of directors

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 of the Canadian Unity Council

Canadian Unity Council

The Canadian Unity Council was a privately owned non-profit organization whose mission was the promotion of Canadian Unity and the current federal institutions.The CUC started as the "Canada Committee" in 1964, in the middle of Quebec's Quiet Revolution...

, the Laurentian Bank, the Société générale de financement du Québec, and Miranda Technologies.

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