Michel Bock est professeur agrégé au département d'histoire de l'Université d'Ottawa, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche sur l'histoire de la francophonie canadienne et spécialiste de l'histoire intellectuelle du Québec et du Canada français. Ses travaux portent sur les facteurs qui ont contribué à l'essor et au déclin du Canada français en tant que référence identitaire et réalité institutionnelle, ainsi que sur l'origine et la portée des divers projets qui y ont succédé au sein de la francophonie canadienne. Il est aussi directeur de recherche au Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche sur la citoyenneté et les minorités (CIRCEM), membre du comité éditorial de Mens : revue d'histoire intellectuelle et culturelle et directeur de la collection « Amérique française » aux Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa. Ses travaux lui ont valu, notamment, le prix du Gouverneur général du Canada, le prix Michel-Brunet de l'Institut d'histoire de l'Amérique française, le prix Champlain du Conseil de la vie française en Amérique et une médaille de l'Assemblée nationale du Québec.
Michel Bastarache, C.C., QC Mr. Justice Bastarache, B.A., LL.L., LL.B., D.E.S., CC, QC received eight honorary degrees. He was called to the Bar in six provinces. He worked for the New Brunswick and federal governments. He was Vice-President and Director of Marketing at Assumption Life, later President and Chief Executive Officer of Assumption Life and its subsidiaries. He was law professor and Dean at the University of Moncton Law School and Associate Dean, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa. He practised law in Ottawa and Moncton. Mr Bastarache was appointed to the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick in 1995 and the Supreme Court of Canada in 1997. He retired from the court in 2008 and practices lawo as a professional corporation. Mr Bastarache was a member of the Interim Constitutional Court of Kenya. He was also Commissioner for La Commission d'enquête sur la nomination des juges au Québec. He was the Independant conciliator for the indemnification of victims of sexual abuse for the dioceses of Bathurst and Moncton. He was also the Independent conciliator for the indemnification of the female members of the RCMP victims of sexual harassment. He is a member of the Administrative Tribunal of the Association of American States in Washington. He is editor and principal author of three text books and over 150 articles. He was awarded a dozen awards, especially Companion of the Order of Canada and Officier de la Légion d'honneur.
Linda Cardinal is the Regional Director for the Americas at the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie. Professor emeritus at the École d'études politiques, member of the Centre d'études en gouvernance and former holder of the Research Chair on the Francophonie and Public Policy at the University of Ottawa, her work focuses on comparative linguistic regimes, constitutionalism, citizenship and minorities. She recently published (with Anne Mévellec), "Les régimes linguistiques à l'épreuve du territoire : le cas de l'Ontario francophone", Revue Internationale des Francophonies, no 7, 2020, URL: http://rifrancophonies.com/rif/index.php?id=1058. Linda Cardinal is a member of the Order of Canada and the Royal Society of Canada. She is a Knight in the Order of the Academic Palms of the French Republic. In 2020, she received the Ordre de la Pléiade and was recognized by Francopresse as an influential figure in the Canadian Francophonie.
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Yves Frenette, MSRC, est professeur permanent et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada de niveau 1 sur les migrations, les transferts et les communautés francophones.
Il est membre élu de la Société royale du Canada, membre de l’Ordre des francophones d’Amérique, et membre élu de la Société Charlevoix.
Yves Frenette is Professor of North American history and holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Migrations, Transfers and Francophone Communities at Université de Saint-Boniface, in Winnipeg.
Anne Gilbert is Professor Emeritus in the Geography Department at the University of Ottawa, where she carries out various studies on the languages, cultures, and territories of Canada. She was Research Chair at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Citizenship and Minorities from 2000 to 2009 and managed the Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture from 2010 to 2015, and from 2016 to 2017. She was awarded the Ordre des francophones d’Amérique in September 2013. She is a member of The Royal Society of Canada.
Anne Levesque studied history and political science before obtaining her law degree from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (French Common Law Program) in 2007, followed by a Master's degree in International Human Rights from Oxford University in 2016. Her research and publications focus on human rights and public interest litigation. She is one of the lawyers representing the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada pro bono in its human rights complaint leading to a landmark victory in 2016 that affirms the right to equality of over 165,000 First Nations children.
