Hubert T. Lacroix is a Canadian

Canada

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 lawyer and the President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 (CBC), the national public radio and television broadcaster.

Born in Montreal

Montreal

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, Quebec

Quebec

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, Lacroix attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf

Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf

Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf is a private French-language educational institution offering secondary school and CEGEP college-level instruction in Montreal, Quebec. It is a co-ed establishment for students in their final year of secondary school and in college. It is boys-only in the first four years...

  before receiving a Bachelor of Law degree from the McGill University Faculty of Law

McGill University Faculty of Law

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 in 1976. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1977 and received a master of Business Administration from McGill in 1981. He started practicing law with the firm of O'Brien, Hall, Saunders in 1977.

A senior adviser with the law firm Stikeman Elliott

Stikeman Elliott

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 LLP, he was Executive Chairman of Telemedia

Telemedia

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 Corporation from 2000 to 2003. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Zarlink Semiconductors since 1992. He also sat on the Boards of Donohue Inc., Circo Craft Co. Inc., Adventure Electronics Inc. and Michelin Canada Inc.

Lacroix is an associate professor with the Faculty of Law at Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

 where he teaches in the securities, and mergers and acquisitions. He was a basketball

Basketball

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 colour commentator on Télévision de Radio-Canada

Télévision de Radio-Canada

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 during the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympics. He was also a weekly contributor for Radio-Canada's Hebdo-Sports radio show. His recent time in the Oasis Montreal Half-Marathon was 1:32:41.0.

He was appointed president and CEO of the CBC, effective January 1, 2008, by Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Canada

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 Stephen Harper

Stephen Harper

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 in November 2007 replacing Robert Rabinovitch

Robert Rabinovitch

Robert Rabinovitch is a Canadian public servant and businessman, and he served as the President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1999 to 2007....

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