It was announced on June 9, 2017 that Prothonotary Roger Lafreniere has been appointed a justice of the Federal Court of Canada. 

Born in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Justice Lafreniere graduated from the University of Manitoba Law School in 1982 and was admitted to the Manitoba Bar in 1983 and to the Ontario Bar in 1996. After working in private practice, then in the federal Department of Justice in Winnipeg and in Treasury Board Legal Services in Ottawa, he was appointed Prothonotary of the Federal Court in the Toronto Local Office in 1999 and since 2003 has been a Prothonotary of the Federal Court. 

The CMLA, whose members have often had occasion to appear before him, join in extending congratulations and best wishes to Justice Lafreniere, as he assumes his important new functions in the Federal Court of Canada.