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Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the appointment of a Quebec judge to the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday, three months after the top court rejected his previous appointment of Marc Nadon.

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Mr. Harper appointed Clement Gascon, who has served on the Quebec Court of Appeal since 2012, and the Quebec Superior Court for a decade before that.

The seat, one of three Supreme Court seats reserved for Quebec, has been vacant since the retirement last summer of Justice Morris Fish.

“Mr. Justice Gascon’s wealth of legal knowledge and experience will be of significant benefit to this important Canadian institution,” Mr. Harper said in a statement. “His appointment is the result of broad consultations with prominent members of the Quebec legal community.”

Judge Gascon spent 10 years as a member of the Quebec Superior Court before joining the Quebec Court of Appeal in 2012. He is a specialist in civil and commercial litigation and has lectured extensively in business and labour law in Quebec.

Quebec Justice Minister Stephanie Vallée welcomed the appointment.

“An eminent jurist,” she said. “I’m very happy to see that Quebec finally has its third justice on the bench.”

Nathalie Des Rosiers, dean of the common law section of Ottawa University’s faculty of law, who was called to the Quebec bar with Judge Gascon in 1982, said he previously had a successful commercial law practice, arguing cases on behalf of employers.