He succeeds Stephen Rotstein of Toronto. John Stefaniuk of Winnipeg begins his term as vice-president.
According to the CBA’s press release, called to the Barreau du Québec in 1999, Bujold is a partner and Quebec region litigation practice leader with McCarthy Tétrault in Montreal. At his firm, he is also chair of the Pride Action Group and member of the Diversity and Inclusion Council. He has been an active member of the CBA since 2001 and a member of the CBA board of directors since September 2019. He chaired the CBA CEO Selection Committee, the Policy Committee, the Governance & Equality Committee and the Equality Subcommittee. Bujold is the first CBA president with a same-sex partner.
The CBA board of directors also welcomes new members: Ken Armstrong of British Columbia, Carley Parish of New Brunswick, Tuma Young of Nova Scotia, Tom Ullyett of Yukon, Kelly McLaughlin of the Northwest Territories, Greg Lyndon of Nunavut, Jordan Brown of Prince Edward Island and Audrey Boctor of Quebec. They join board members who are entering the second year of their two-year terms: Steven J.R. Seiferling of Saskatchewan, Melanie Del Rizzo of Newfoundland and Labrador, Lynne M. J. Vicars of Ontario and Mike R. McKinney of Alberta.
“For more than a century, our association has been the voice of the legal profession, at home and abroad,” said Bujold in the press release. “It has been a defender of the rule of law and of judicial independence, a strong advocate for equality, diversity and inclusion in the legal profession, and a progressive actor in the promotion of human rights. My two personal priorities will be, first, to ensure that judicial independence, an essential pillar of our democracy, is better understood, protected and valued and, second, to work on improving diversity within the legal community including addressing the needs of the members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, in particular non-binary and trans people.”