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Biography
Senator Angus was born
in Toronto in 1937, but grew up and still resides in Montreal.
He is presently a senior partner of
Stikeman Elliott LLP,
Canada's global law firm, and has been associated with the
firm's Montreal office since his graduation from McGill
University's Faculty of Law with First Class Honours in 1962.
He previously attended Lower Canada College and Princeton
University, graduating from Princeton cum laude in 1959.
He was appointed
Queen's Counsel in December 1984 and is an Honourary Life
Member of the Canadian Maritime Law Association
of which he
served as President from 1989 to 1992. He has extensive
experience in all facets of maritime, insurance and commercial
law and has a special expertise respecting government
regulation of insurance companies and other financial
institutions. He is also very knowledgeable about corporate governance of public
companies and institutional investors.
Senator Angus was
appointed to the
Senate of Canada
by the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney on June 10, 1993 and has served on
the
Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce
from 1993 to 2009. He is currently a Member of the
Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural
Resources and a Member of the
Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs
as well as a Member of the
Conflict of Interest for Senators Committee.
Senator Angus has
served on the boards of a number of Canadian public and private
corporations, including Air Canada from 1985 to 2004, and has
extensive experience with audit, corporate governance and
compensation committees of corporate boards. He has
participated actively in three Senate Banking Committee studies
on corporate governance and is a frequent lecturer and speaker
on the subject. He has been very active with community and
public service organizations throughout his career and currently
is the Chairman of the Board of the McGill University Health Centre and
is the immediate past President of the Montreal General Hospital Corporation and a
past member of the Board of the Montreal General Hospital Foundation.
He is also a member of the Board of St. Andrew's Presbyterian
Homes Foundation. St. Andrew's Homes is a Montreal residence for
senior citizens for which Senator Angus has been an active
supporter since the early sixties.
Senator Angus is
a proud member of the
Conservative Party of Canada and has taken a great interest
in Canadian politics, both provincial and federal since his
university days. He joined the Progressive Conservative
Party of Canada in 1957 and has held important offices at all
levels of the Party. Over the years, he was particularly
active in fundraising and was Chair of PC Canada Fund from
1983 to 1993 when he became Chairman Emeritus of the Fund.
Senator Angus is generally recognized as one of Canada's leading
experts in the theory and practice of money in politics.
He has an active
and ongoing interest in athletics and the outdoors and played
varsity hockey and golf while at Princeton University. He
remains a keen and active golfer, skier and fly fisherman. He is
a member of the Canadian Seniors Golf Association and has a
great interest in links and foursomes golf as evidenced by his
membership in several United Kingdom clubs including the Royal
and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrew's and the Honourable Company
of Edinburgh Golfers (Muirfield) in Scotland; the Royal County
Down and the Royal Portrush Golf Clubs in Northern Ireland; and
the Royal St. George's and the Walton Heath Golf Clubs in
England. He is President of the St-John Salmon Club of
Gaspé.
Link to
Senate Biography for Senator Angus
Link to
Anecdotes
Link to 1963 Article about
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