Me Jacques E. Pigeon was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1975. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel on December 29, 1992.
After practicing law for several years in private practice, he joined the federal Department of Justice on December 1st, 1981. Immediately prior, he was a partner in a law firm in Hull. Between December 1st, 1981, and August 28, 2009, he held various positions within the Department of Justice, all within the Transport and Infrastructure Legal Services (TILS) except for a two-year period during which he worked as counsel in the Tax Litigation Section.
During his tenure at (TILS), he participated as legal counsel in several major departmental and governmental projects. These projects included, among others, the deregulation of the transportation sector falling under the legislative jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada and the commercialization of transportation facilities and enterprises operated, directly or indirectly, by the Department of Transport. In particular, he contributed significantly to the contractual engineering in the airport divestiture project and the commercialization of the St. Lawrence Seaway.
He was appointed Senior General Counsel and Executive Director of (TILS) on February 18, 2002, and held this position until December 8, 2008. Subsequently, he worked as Senior General Counsel and Special Advisor to the Minister of Transport on corporate governance until his retirement from the Department of Justice on August 28, 2009. He is a graduate of the Directors Education Program offered by the Institute of Corporate Directors in collaboration with the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, which was held in Montreal at McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management (April 2008).
Between October 20, 2009, and January 7, 2019, he held the full-time position as Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Corporate Secretary at The Federal Bridge Corporation Limited. Since January 7, 2019, he remains the Corporate Secretary at The Federal Bridge Corporation Limited, but on a part-time basis.
He was a part-time professor at the Graduate Studies School of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa from 2009 to 2014.