Graham Wilson Shatford Scott CM KC (born November 13, 1942) is a Canadian lawyer and expert in the incorporation, amalgamation, restructuring, and governance processes of health institutions in Canada.
[1] In 1992 he was a recipient of the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal issued under the Authority of the Queen in recognition of public service.
In that time, he was involved in filing a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency to prevent the relaxation of pollution standards for coal-fired power stations due to concerns about acid rain in Canada.
In 2003, Scott was appointed the supervisor of the Hôpital régional de Sudbury Regional Hospital in response to significant deficit issues.
[14] Scott has been director of several associations, institutes, and corporations, including the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, the Public Policy Forum, the Association of the Faculties of Medicine of Canada, the Atlantic Salmon Federation,[15] Sanofi PasteurCanada, LDIC Inc,[16] and the Rothesay Netherwood School.
They have two daughters: Gillian Scott, a partner in client relations and business development litigation at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP,[23] and Genevieve Scott,[24] a fiction writer who published the novel Catch My Drift with Goose Lane Editions in 2018[25] and The Damages with Penguin Random House Canada in 2023.