About CIRB

CIRB Members

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.