Canada Industrial Relations Board

Please visit the CIRB's Members' page for the most up-to-date listing of Board Members and biographies.

Full-time Members	Term
Elizabeth MacPherson, Chairperson	December 31, 2012
Graham J. Clark, Vice-Chairperson	April 22, 2012
Louise Fecteau, Vice-Chairperson	September 30, 2011
Judith F. MacPherson, Vice-Chairperson	December 16, 2012
William G. McMurray, Vice-Chairperson	March 30, 2014
Claude Roy, Vice-Chairperson	March 2, 2013
John Bowman, Member	October 31, 2010
Daniel Charbonneau, Member	March 28, 2013
Patrick J. Heinke, Member	May 10, 2011
André Lecavalier, Member	December 17, 2012
David Olsen, Member	November 8, 2012
Norman Rivard, Member	January 14, 2013

Part-time Members	Term
Henry Allan Hope, Vice-Chairperson	January 13, 2013
Richard I. Hornung, Q.C., Vice-Chairperson	June 26, 2010
William Terence Lineker, Member	January 13, 2013
Cynthia Catherine Oliver, Member	January 13, 2013

Biographical Information

Elizabeth MacPherson, Chairperson
Ms. MacPherson was the Director General, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, with the Labour Program since April 1999. Her career experience has included executive positions in mediation and conciliation within a number of different organizations, including the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal. She also held the position of Special Advisor to the Associate Deputy Minister of Labour.

In 2006, Ms. MacPherson taught industrial relations at the University of Ottawa's School of Management. She holds a Bachelor and a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa. She is an active volunteer and a member of numerous organizations and councils, including the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Graham J. Clarke, Vice Chairperson
Mr. Graham Clarke was appointed as Vice-Chairperson of the CIRB on April 23, 2007.

A member of the bars of Ontario and Quebec since 1987, Mr. Clarke started practising labour law in Montréal. In 1988, he became legal counsel to the Canada Labour Relations Board's first Chairperson, Mr. Marc Lapointe. After leaving the Board, Mr. Clarke published the loose-leaf book Canada Labour Relations Board: An Annotated Guide (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 1992). He is also the author of Clarke's Canada Industrial Relations Board (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 1999), which was published following the 1999 amendments to the Canada Labour Code.

From 1990 to 2007, Mr. Clarke represented private sector clients in both official languages before a wide range of administrative tribunals and courts.

At the time of his appointment, Mr. Clarke was a partner in the firm Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP, honourary legal counsel for United Way Ottawa and a member of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa.

Louise Fecteau, Vice Chairperson
Ms. Louise Fecteau was appointed as Vice-Chairperson of the CIRB on October 1, 2003.

Ms. Fecteau is a lawyer specializing in labour and commercial law. She served as Secretary General to the committee reviewing the Court of Quebec judges' salaries, pension plans and other benefits. She was also Vice-President and General Manager of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. Ms. Fecteau has extensive experience in collective bargaining and arbitration of grievances.

Ms. Fecteau earned a Bachelor of Law from the Université Laval and a Master of Public International Law from the Paris-Sorbonne University. The term of her appointment ends September 30, 2007.

Judith F. MacPherson, Vice Chairperson
Ms. MacPherson possesses over 25 years of experience as a lawyer and arbitrator specializing in labour, employment and administrative law. She has held various positions serving on numerous committees, associations and boards, including the New Brunswick Labour and Employment Board as a Vice-Chairperson, the New Brunswick Public Service Labour Relations Board as an adjudicator, the Canadian Bar Association's National Judicial Salary and Benefits Committee as Chair and the NB Legal Aid Appeal Committee as a member. She was awarded the Queen's Counsel designation and the CBA, New Brunswick Branch Distinguished Service Award in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the legal profession.

She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (LL.B.) from the University of New Brunswick and a Bachelor of Arts from Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

William G. McMurray, Vice Chairperson
Since 1986, Mr. McMurray has been practising administrative law, specializing in labour and employment law. He has acted as counsel for some of Canada's largest employers in the federal transportation and telecommunications industries.

He has appeared, and successfully handled numerous complex cases, before the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the Canada Appeals Office (on occupational health and safety), the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.

Mr. McMurray studied common law and civil law at the University of Ottawa and studied political science at the Université Laval. Mr. McMurray has been teaching law courses at McGill University since 2000.

Claude Roy, Vice Chairperson
Mr. Claude Roy was appointed as Vice-Chairperson of the CIRB on March 3, 2008.

Since 1974, Mr. Roy has been in private practice, working in the areas of civil law, labour law, commercial law, criminal and quasi-criminal law, municipal law and bankruptcy law. He has significant expertise in administrative and penal law. Over the years, he has also served as First Councillor of the Barreau du Québec and solicitor for the cities of Laterrière, La Baie and Jonquière.

Since April 2006, he has been an adjudicator and referee, appointed by the Minister of Labour to hear cases of unjust dismissal and sit in appeal on wage recovery determinations by departmental inspectors.

Mr. Roy is a graduate of Université Laval in Québec City and has been licensed by the Barreau du Québec since 1974.

John Bowman, Member
Mr. John Bowman is a full-time member of the CIRB serving as an employee representative.

Mr. Bowman was the Privacy Officer for the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) in British Columbia and various CAW locals. He holds several memberships with different organizations, including the British Columbia Labour Relations Board and the Organizing Advisory Committee within the British Columbia Federation of Labour. For the past 29 years, Mr. Bowman has served as a long-time national representative with the Canadian Association of Industrial Mechanical, and Allied Workers and CAW.

Mr. Bowman holds a bachelor's degree in history with a specialization in labour history from the University of Winnipeg.

Daniel Charbonneau, Member
Mr. Daniel Charbonneau is a full-time member of the CIRB serving as an employee representative.

Prior to his appointment, Mr. Charbonneau was an advisor with the Service Employees Union, Local 800 (QFL). He previously worked on the Air Canada customer service union (International Association of Machinists) committee (Eastern Region).

After obtaining a bachelor's degree in political science from the Université du Québec à Montréal, Mr. Charbonneau studied industrial relations at the Université de Montréal.

Patrick J. Heinke, Member
Mr. Patrick J. Heinke is a full-time member of the CIRB serving as an employer representative.

Mr. Heinke has been running P.J. Heinke & Associates Inc. since 2002, a firm that provides mediation, negotiation and strategic planning services. During his long career at Air Canada, which began in 1967, he held several management positions: from 1997 to 2002, he was Senior Director, Labour Relations; from 1993 to 1997, he was Director, Labour Relations-Customer Service; from 1991 to 1993, he was Manager, Labour Relations-Customer Service; and from 1989 to 1991, he held the position of Manager, Labour Relations-International and Finance.

Mr. Heinke audited courses at the University of Vienna, Austria, and completed the Executive Management Program and Negotiations Strategies at Queen's University.

Mr. Heinke holds several memberships. He is Executive Member, Federally Regulated Employers of Transportation and Communication Organizations, and the Air Transport Association of Canada. He is also a member of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce and the American Arbitration Association. The term of his appointment ends April 3, 2008.

André Lecavalier, Member
Mr. André Lecavalier is a part-time member of the CIRB serving as an employer representative.

From 1990 to 2003, Mr. Lecavalier was Vice-President, Human Resources, at Clarke Inc. in Toronto. In this capacity, he dealt with various aspects of human resources (labour relations, compensation and benefits, training, recruitment, health and security) related to 1,500 employees. During this period, he also negotiated and administered several collective agreements across the country.

A graduate from the Université de Montréal (Bachelor of Arts in Sciences - Major in Industrial Relations), Mr. Lecavalier started his career with the City of Dorval, Quebec where he was responsible for fire prevention and labour relations for the fire department's employees. The term of his appointment ends December 15, 2007.

David Olsen, Member
Biography unavailable.

Norman Rivard, Member
Mr. Norman Rivard is a full-time member of the CIRB serving as an employee representative.

Mr. Rivard was the Chair of the Steelworkers - Industrial Wood and Allied Workers of Canada (I.W.A.) Council. He held positions as both Vice President and National President of the former I.W.A., was a union president in Northern Ontario, and he was also a member of an executive board, which established and oversaw the policy and administration of the national union. Mr. Rivard became active in union committees when he first began working as a machine operator for Rexwood Products in 1967. He is a certified Canadian Labour Congress union education instructor.

Henry Allan Hope., Vice Chairperson
Mr. Hope's qualifications include 45 years as an arbitrator and mediator in several hundred labour, environmental and commercial disputes. In these situations, he served individually as a neutral third party or as a neutral chair of various boards or commissions. As a conciliation commissioner, he was given the mandate to investigate a dispute between the three railways that make up the bulk of the rail industry in Canada and its unions. He was also appointed as sole arbitrator in numerous collective agreements with B.C. Rail and Alcan, and he was appointed chair of a three-person commission charged with the task of making recommendations with respect to the compensation of provincial court judges.

Richard I. Hornung, Q.C., Vice Chairperson
Mr. Hornung has a wealth of experience in industrial relations, labour law and the resolution of disputes. He has an established history as an arbitrator and mediator of labour and commercial disputes. He served as Vice-Chairperson of the Canada Labour Relations Board and Chair of the Saskatchewan Labour Relations Board. In addition to his extensive experience in ADR, Mr. Hornung has practised law, been a Professor of Law at the University of Alberta and instructed mediation at Harvard Law School (PIL).

Mr. Hornung holds a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics. He has spoken at numerous conferences and published many papers and reports in the area, including a comprehensive public policy report on construction industry labour relations. He has held, or holds, membership in a number of professional associations, including the National Academy of Arbitrators, the Ontario Labour Management Arbitrators Association and the law societies of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Mr. Hornung conducts a, Calgary-based, national dispute resolution practice.

William Terence Lineker, Member
Mr. Lineker has over 42 years experience as a human resources manager at the divisional and corporate levels in areas including industrial and employee relations, and wage, salary and benefits administration. Since 1997, he has occupied the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Forest Industrial Relations Ltd.

Cynthia Catherine Oliver, Member
Ms. Oliver has over 25 years experience as a union leader on diverse labour relations issues with public policy and community organizations. Since 2002, she has occupied the position of President of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of British Columbia. Her experience with the organization includes leading provincial bargaining in the post-secondary education sector, as well as leading public advocacy on post-secondary education issues and collaborative efforts with the broader labour movement. She also represents members and locals in the grievance and arbitration process.