Simon Noël (born November 17, 1947) is a retired
Federal Court of Canada
The Federal Court of Canada, which succeeded the Exchequer Court of Canada in 1971, was a national court of Canada that had limited jurisdiction to hear certain types of disputes arising under the Parliament of Canada, federal government's Canadi ...
judge.
From 1979 to 1981, he acted as counsel on the
Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP, and co-chief prosecutor on the Commission reviewing the
Somalia Affair
The Somalia affair was a 1993 Canadian military scandal, prompted by the beating to death of Shidane Arone, a Somali teenager, at the hands of two Canadian peacekeepers participating in humanitarian efforts in Somalia. The act was documented by ...
.
Noël retired from the Federal Court on August 31, 2022.
On October 5, 2022 it was announced that the Governor General in Council had appointed Noël as the new
Intelligence Commissioner of Canada for a five-year term, effective October 1, 2022.
References
1947 births
Living people
Judges of the Federal Court of Canada
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