{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = Marc Gold | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|size=100%}} | image = | caption = | office = Representative of the Government in the Senate |prime_minister = Justin Trudeau <br /> Mark Carney | term_start = January 24, 2020 | term_end = June 30, 2025 | deputy = | predecessor = Peter Harder | successor = Pierre Moreau | office1 = Canadian Senator<br /> from Quebec (Stadacona) | nominator1 = Justin Trudeau | appointer1 = David Johnston | term_start1 = November 25, 2016 | term_end1 = June 30, 2025 | predecessor1 = Jean-Claude Rivest | successor1 = | party = Non-affiliated | other_party = Independent Senators Group (2016 – 2020) | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|6|30}} | birth_place = Montreal, Quebec, Canada | spouse = Nancy Cummings Gold | children = 2 | father = Alan B. Gold | relatives = Nora Gold (sister) | alma_mater = McGill University<br />University of British Columbia<br />Harvard Law School | profession = {{hlist|Lawyer|professor|businessman}} }}
'''Marc Gold''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (born June 30, 1950) is a Canadian law professor and politician who served as Representative of the Government in the Senate from 2020 until his retirement in 2025. Gold sat as the senator for Stadacona, Quebec since his appointment on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in 2016. He was a member of the Independent Senators Group (ISG) caucus from 2016 to 2020 but then sat as an Independent. Prior to his appointment as a senator, Gold taught law and was appointed associate dean at Osgoode Hall Law School.
== Early life and education == Gold is the son of Alan B. Gold, who was chief justice of Quebec Superior Court.<ref name="cjn">{{Cite web|date=November 2, 2016|title=Montreal community leader Marc Gold named to Senate|url=http://www.cjnews.com/news/canada/community-leader-marc-gold-named-senate}}</ref> Gold is Jewish.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Community leader Marc Gold named to Senate | Jewish Federations of Canada - UIA|date=November 2, 2016 |url=https://www.jewishcanada.org/home-page/jewishnews/community-leader-marc-gold-named-to-senate}}</ref>
He earned his undergraduate degree at McGill University in 1972, and an LL.B from the University of British Columbia in 1978 with top honours as the gold medalist. Recipient of the Viscount Bennett Scholarship by the Canadian Bar Association, he received his LL.M from the Harvard Law School in 1979. Gold is a member of the Barreau du Québec and of the Law Society of Ontario, and has completed mediation training at the Harvard Law School Program on Negotiation.<ref name="cja">{{cite web |title=Marc Gold |url=http://www.federationcja.org/media/mediaContent/Marc_Gold.pdf |website=FederationCJA.org |access-date=October 29, 2023}}</ref><ref name="marcgold">{{Cite web|title=Marc Gold |url=http://www.marcgold.ca/ |access-date=August 4, 2020 |website=www.marcgold.ca}}</ref>
== Career == Gold was previously a law professor at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto for 12 years, ultimately serving as associate dean, and also provided training for federally-appointed judges in the area of constitutional law and the ''Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms''. More recently, he has been adjunct professor of law at McGill University.<ref name="bio">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2016/11/02/biographical-notes|title = Biographical notes|date=November 2, 2016}}</ref>
He has been involved in Jewish community life as chair of the Jewish Federations of Canada, a member of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel, and is a former chairperson of the Canada-Israel Committee.<ref name="cja" /> He served for ten years as the chair of ENSEMBLE pour le respect de la diversité (formerly the Tolerance Foundation), a not-for-profit organization that works with youth to build a more open and inclusive society. At the time of his appointment to the Senate he was a part-time member of the Parole Board of Canada.<ref name="bio" />
In the early 1990s he returned to Montreal to become vice-president of Maxwell Cummings and Sons, a family-owned private real estate and investment firm based in Montreal, a position he held for 23 years.<ref name="bio" />
Gold accepted a position, effective after his retirement from the senate, as visiting fellow at the Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University and in 2026 is to teach a course entitled “Policy, Politics and the Legislative Process in Canada: A view from the inside,” exploring the interaction of policy, politics and the legislative process.<ref>{{cite web |title=Senator Gold bids farewell to the Senate |url=https://senate-gro.ca/news/senator-gold-retirement/ |access-date=2025-06-30 |website=senate-gro.ca}}</ref>
== Political career == Gold's appointment was announced on November 2, 2016, by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<ref>{{Cite news|date=November 2, 2016|title=Justin Trudeau names 6 new senators from Quebec| newspaper=CBC News|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-trudeau-quebec-appointments-independent-1.3832415 |access-date=November 2, 2016}}</ref> He assumed office on November 25, 2016, and was sworn as a Senator on December 2, 2016.
He was named Representative of the Government in the Senate on January 24, 2020.<ref>{{cite news|date=January 24, 2020|title=Trudeau appoints constitutional lawyer Marc Gold as government leader in the Senate|work=CBC News|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-picks-marc-gold-1.5439110|access-date=January 24, 2020}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://marcgold.ca/}} *{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=18719}} {{CA-Leaders of the Government in the Senate}} {{Authority control}}
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