Federal appointments: courts and tribunals

Summary#

The Canada Gazette, Part I (Volume 160, Number 27) published a list of federal public appointments from the Office of the Registrar General on July 4, 2026. It names people appointed to courts, tribunals, boards and other federal bodies; most are routine staffing announcements.

What it does#

• Appoints Jonathan Plamondon as a full‑time member of the Canada Industrial Relations Board (Order in Council 2026-468).
• Appoints Karen Dawn Adams as Governor of the Council for the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (Order in Council 2026-536).
• Appoints Susan Hutton as a full‑time temporary member of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (Order in Council 2026-455).
• Names Alain Langlois as Member and Chairperson and Fred Gaspar as Member and Vice‑Chairperson of the Canadian Transportation Agency (Orders in Council 2026-490, 2026-491).
• Appoints The Hon. Daniel Boone as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of Newfoundland and Labrador (with related ex officio role) (Order in Council 2026-591).
• Adds part‑time members to the Employment Insurance Board of Appeal: Barbara Joan Austin, Corinne Blanchette, Joseph Shee‑Yan Chiu, Emily Anne Farrimond, Anita Maria Furlan, Lindsay Anne Gates, Josée Langlois, Kari Jane Schroeder, and Jeanie Theoharis (Orders in Council 2026-574, 2026-469–2026-476).
• Appoints Lisa Woodstock as a full‑time member of the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board (Order in Council 2026-493).
• Appoints Richard J. Fyfe as a Family Law Division judge for His Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench for Saskatchewan (Order in Council 2026-590).
• Names Kari Jane Schroeder and Roxane Vachon as part‑time members of the Immigration and Refugee Board (Orders in Council 2026-463, 2026-534).
• Appoints The Hon. Keith D. Yamauchi as a deputy judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice (Order in Council 2026-517).
• Appoints Conor McCourt as a member of the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (Order in Council 2026-587).
• Names Charlotte Anne McQuade as a part‑time member of the Social Security Tribunal (Order in Council 2026-480).
• Appoints Karen C. Perron as a judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario (ex officio of the Court of Appeal for Ontario) (Order in Council 2026-498).
• Appoints Nicolas Moisan as a judge of the Superior Court of Quebec for the district of Québec (Order in Council 2026-499).
• Appoints John McKenna as a part‑time member of the Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada (Order in Council 2026-582).

(The orders appear dated June 25, 2026 in the Gazette notice.)

Who's affected#

• The named appointees and the specific federal boards, tribunals and courts listed above.
• People and organizations who interact with those bodies — for example, employers and unions (industrial relations), parties in immigration or social security cases, litigants in the named courts, and users of occupational health or pharmaceutical price review processes.
• For most members the change is administrative and will not directly alter services day‑to‑day; the parties who appear before these bodies are the most likely to notice any change in membership.

Why it matters#

• These are the people who will make decisions, run hearings, or lead boards in their areas. New appointments can influence how cases and policies are handled.
• Knowing who holds these roles matters if you have a case, complaint, or business before one of the named bodies.
• This Gazette entry is a routine public record of federal staffing decisions; it does not itself change law or program rules.