Actively involved in the community, Jacques is a past chair of Carleton University's board of governors and its executive committee and served as a board governor for thirteen years
. In addition he served as chair of the Distinguished Council of Advisors of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Jacques
is currently
the Chair of the
Library Archives Canada (LAC) Foundation (April 2019 to present).
He is
also counsel to Amazon, providing legal, government relations, and strategic advice to the compan
y, something I stupidly failed to ask him about.