Raymond Koskie Q.C. (Retired)

Consultant

Founding partner Ray Koskie played an instrumental role in advancing and promoting the interests of labour, benefit plans and business, through the development of new, more responsive and innovative solutions to a wide variety of social, tax and other issues.

Ray served as lead counsel in a major successful case on pension plan surpluses against Dominion Stores Ltd. which set a precedent for future litigation in this area.

Ray was appointed by the Prime Minister of Canada as a member of the Economic Council of Canada and served from 1986 to 1989.

Ray published numerous papers on employee benefits, several of which were delivered at annual Canadian conferences of the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. He was also a principal editor and contributor of the second edition of Employee Benefits in Canada.