Roy McMurtry, who served as provincial attorney general and solicitor general, was also a member of the so-called ”kitchen cabinet.”

 

 

Along with former prime minister Jean Chretien and former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow,  McMurtry helped broker the deal that led to the repatriation of the Constitution and creation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982.

He retired from politics in 1985 after a failed leadership run.

Between 1985 and ’88, he was Canada’s high commissioner to Britain before being appointed associate chief justice of the Superior Court in Ontario 1991 and chief justice of that court three years later.

McMurtry was named chief justice of Ontario in 1996, a position he held until 2007.