Concerning the appointment of Louis Marquis as a judge to the Superior Court of Quebec - Chapter 1
After being involved in litigations in 2022 and 2023, which he generated and refused to settle, and after the discovery of fraudulent schemes in the hiring process of lecturers at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke (exposed in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series), Dean Louis Marquis "chose" in 2023 not to renew his term as dean, even though he was entitled to another 4-year term, from 2024 to 2028.
He publicly announced that he was going on sabbatical, “study leave”, outside of Canada.
Behind the scenes, however, Louis Marquis was secretly submitting his application to be appointed as a judge to the Superior Court of Quebec, where some of the cases he was involved in personally were being heard.
He aimed to obtain a position that would protect him, that would ensure his financial security through a salary of nearly $400,000 per year, a guaranteed job security until 75 through judicial irremovability, and a social and reputational status that would be difficult to question.
However, according to current rules, this position cannot be held by someone with a past that could affect their image, the image of the Canadian judiciary, or that of the Government of Canada that appoints them as a judge. Nor can this position be held by someone who is not completely honest and transparent in the judicial appointment process.
Curiously and to the surprise of several jurists, in June 2024, Louis Marquis was appointed as a judge to the Superior Court of Quebec by the Minister of Justice of Canada, the lawyer Arif Virani, of Justin Trudeau’s government (Liberal Party of Canada).
Concerning the president of the Quebec Bar Association, Marcel-Olivier Nadeau, of the law firm Cain Lamarre
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The case of the disqualification of the law firm Cain Lamarre to defend the University of Sherbrooke, judged by a judge in conflict of interests : Martin F. Sheehan (Superior Court of Quebec) (Pt.4)
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Cain Lamarre, the law firm that defended the University of Sherbrooke in the case revealing schemes in the granting of teaching contracts was itself a beneficiary of those schemes (Pt.3)
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A ruse, concocted to conceal fraudulent schemes at the Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke, signed Louis Marquis and Marie-Pierre Robert (Pt.2)
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Fraudulent schemes used by the managers of the Faculty of Law of the University of Sherbrooke in the granting of teaching contracts to lecturers (Pt.1)
Between 2022 and 2023, it had been discovered that three managers of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke (UdeS), Louis Marquis (Dean from January 2020 to December 2023), Marie-Pierre Robert (Associate-Dean from 2015 to 2019) and Sébastien Lebel-Grenier (Dean from 2011 to 2019), had resorted to fraudulent schemes in the granting of teaching contracts to lecturers.
After these reprehensible acts were reported, instead of being penalized, these three individuals were promoted by the University and by the Government of Canada : Sébastien Lebel-Grenier was appointed Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishop's University in 2023, Marie-Pierre Robert became the new Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sherbrooke in 2023 (Ms. Robert's husband, Sébastien Pierre-Roy, was appointed judge at the Superior Court of Quebec in Sherbrooke in 2023 by the Government of Canada), and Louis Marquis was appointed judge at the Superior Court of Quebec in Sherbrooke in 2024 by the same Government of Canada. What's the story behind this?