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Jim Matkin

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Canadian lawyer and businessman

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According to Wikipedia, James G. Matkin, QC is a former British Columbia, Canada deputy minister of labour and of intergovernmental relations, former President and CEO of the Business Council of British Columbia, and a former British Columbia Law Society secretary and executive director. He led drafting of the Labour Code Of B.C. in 1973, and legislation for the first human rights code of BC, floated the Non Obstante clause compromise that was adopted in the Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights in 1981, and is credited with "cleaning up" the Vancouver stock exchange through his one-man commission of enquiry. He studied law and economics at Harvard as a Frank Knox Fellow graduated with an LL.M. in 1969. He is a self-proclaimed "most viewed writer" in climatology and carbon emissions in Quora. He is one of the editors of Academia.edu and active with posts on negotiation and climate.

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