Sen. Murray Sinclair poses for a photo outside his Senate office on Parliament Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in Ottawa.
Members of Manitoba's legal community remember the late senator and judge Murray Sinclair as a "giant" in the profession who treated people with humility and humanity.Posted: Nov 05, 2024 6:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 5 hours agoWinnipeg lawyer Brad Regehr's fondest memory of the late Anishinaabe judge and senator Murray Sinclair has only a tangential connection to his judicial career.
Regehr, a member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, was the first Indigenous president of the Manitoba Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association. Sinclair was the first Indigenous person appointed a judge in Manitoba, and the second in Canada. As a commissioner on the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, which delivered its final report in 1991, he examined the relationship between Indigenous people and the justice system.
Chief Judge Ryan Rolston remembers being a lawyer and arguing cases in front of Sinclair during his time on the provincial court bench. Sinclair showed his humanity during sentencing hearings, he said.
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