The Making of a Minute: Victor Garber Brings Bora Laskin to Life

In a sweeping, half-century stage, film and television career, Canadian actor Victor Garber has played everyone from Ernest Hemingway to the Marquis de Lafayette to Liberace. For his latest turn as leading man, Garber, 75, took on the part of a very Canadian hero: Bora Laskin, the first Jewish Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

“I am the child of Polish Jews,” said Garber of his choice to portray Laskin in the new Heritage Minute. “The moment I saw this, I knew I had to take the role.” [MORE]