Bennett Jones Tax Partner Appointed to the Board of Canada Post

The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, has announced the appointment of Ms. Sian M. Matthews as a member of the Canada Post Corporation board of directors for a period of four years.

Ms. Sian M. Matthews (pictured) holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Waterloo, a bachelor of laws degree from the University of Ottawa and was called to the Alberta Bar in 1985. She is currently a tax partner at Bennett Jones LLP, and her practice focuses on personal tax planning, trusts, estate planning, charity law, wealth management and wealth preservation. Ms. Matthews has a national profile in the areas of tax planning, trust and charity law. She writes regularly for legal journals, and speaks at national and international conferences on tax law. Her professional involvements include memberships to the Law Society of Alberta, the Estate Planning Council of Calgary, the Canadian Tax Foundation and the Canadian Bar Association. She has been an instructor at the Bar Admission Course and a sessional instructor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary.

Canada Post Corporation is a Crown corporation and the seventh largest employer in Canada. It serves approximately 31 million Canadians and more than one million businesses and public institutions. Each working day, it delivers approximately 37 million pieces of mail to more than 13 million addresses in Canada.