Minister of Finance Announces Two Appointments to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal

(Department of Finance)

The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, has announced the appointment of André F. Scott as Chair of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) and Pasquale Michaele Saroli as a full-time member.

Mr. Scott, currently Vice-President Corporate Affairs, General Counsel and Secretary of Polycor Inc., is a lawyer with 25 years of senior executive and managerial experience in both the public and private sectors. He has an extensive background in arbitration and negotiation.

Mr. Saroli, also a lawyer, has been an employee of the Department of Finance since 1989, and has taken on a number of increasingly senior roles in trade remedies, policy development and negotiations. He has a solid grounding in both administrative and international economic law.

“Both Mr. Scott and Mr. Saroli have extensive international trade experience and will make a valuable contribution to the important work of the CITT,” said Minister Flaherty. “I wish them both well in their new duties.”