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Roy McMurtry, former Attorney General of Ontario and Chief Justice of Ontario for 11 years before retiring in 2007, has died at the age of 91. He was a lawyer and a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985. He was also the High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom from 1985-1988. McMurtry was a human rights advocate and friend of the late Jamaican Canadian social justice and human rights advocate Bromley Armstrong. He wrote the foreword of Armstrong’s memoir, “Bromley: Tireless Champion for Just Causes”, written with Sheldon Taylor and published in 2000.