Annette Boudreau, professor emeritus at the Université de Moncton, has been researching the phenomenon of language insecurity, its construction, manifestation and consequences for 30 years. She is the author of the monograph À l'ombre de la langue légitime : l'Acadie dans la francophonie (Classiques Garnier 2016), which won the Prix de la Renaissance française awarded by the Académie des Sciences d'outre-mer. Her most recent book, Dire le silence : insécurité linguistique en Acadie 1867-1970, was published by Éditions Prise de parole, in December 2021. She is the recipient of the 2023 Acfas Gilles-Paquet award.
Pierre Foucher obtained his law degree from the Université de Montréal in 1977 and his Master of Administrative Law from Queens University at Kingston in 1981. A member of the Quebec Bar, he has been a full professor at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law since 2008 and teaches in the areas of constitutional law and language rights.
