Michael Behiels
Behiels, a full professor with the University of Ottawa Department of History, is an internationally renowned specialist in the history of Canadian federalism and constitutional development and is currently President of the Organization for the History of Canada and Interim President of the Network on the Constitution. Over the past thirty years, Dr. Behiels has taught, researched, and published in three interconnected areas: political, ideological, and constitutional developments in Quebec since 1940 and how these transformed federal-provincial relations; the development of nationalisms in Canada and how these impact Canada's federal system of governance; and the development of individual and minority rights formalized in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the Constitution Act, 1982 and the subsequent transformation of federalism and constitutionalism, in all of their dimensions, in Canada.