The Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, also known as the "Quebec Charter", is a statutory bill of rights and human rights code passed by the National Assembly of Quebec on June 27, 1975. It received Royal Assent from Lieutenant Governor Hugues Lapointe, coming into effect on June 28, 1976. Introduced by the Liberal government of Robert Bourassa, the Charter followed extensive preparatory work that began under the Union Nationale government of Daniel Johnson.
Gisèle Côté-Harper, is a Canadian lawyer and professor. She is the 1995 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace for her work as a human rights activist. She is the first Francophone woman to receive such an honor.
Marie Thérèse Casgrain, ., née Forget was a French Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the first woman to lead a political party in Canada. In her later life she opposed nuclear weapons and was a consumer activist. A strong federalist, one of her last political actions, at age 83, was to intervene on the "No" side in the 1980 Quebec sovereignty referendum.
Masson-Angers is a former municipality and now a sector within the city of Gatineau. It is located on the north shore of the Ottawa River, in Quebec, Canada, approximately 30 km (18.6 mi) northeast of downtown Ottawa, Ontario. According to the Canada 2011 Census, Masson-Angers had a population of 12,397.
Quebec law is unique in Canada because Quebec is the only province in Canada to have a juridical legal system under which civil matters are regulated by French-heritage civil law. Public law, criminal law and federal law operate according to Canadian common law.
Daniel Turp is a professor of constitutional and international law at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served as a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (1997–2000) and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly (2003–2008).
Micheline Charest was a British-born Canadian television producer and founder and former co-chairman of CINAR. In 1997, Charest was ranked 19th in The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 most powerful women in the entertainment industry.
Marie Lacoste Gérin-Lajoie was a Canadian feminist. She was a professor at the Université de Montréal, and a self-taught legal expert. She was a pioneer of the feminist movement in Québec who co-founded the Fédération nationale Saint-Jean-Baptiste with Caroline Dessaulles-Béique, an organization which campaigned for social and political rights for women.
The constitution of Quebec comprises a set of legal rules that arise from the following categories:
Serge Mongeau is a physician, writer, publisher and politician from Quebec. He is one of the best-known Canadian advocates of simple living.
Suzanne Côté is a puisne justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. She was nominated by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to replace retiring Justice Louis LeBel. Before her appointment to the Supreme Court, she was a partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and previously Stikeman Elliott LLP in Montréal. She is the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court directly from private practice.
Gaëtane de Montreuil was the pen name of Géorgina Bélanger, a writer in Quebec. She has been described as one of the leading early Canadian women journalists.
The Human Rights Tribunal of Quebec is a specialized first-instance tribunal of the province of Quebec, Canada, that has the jurisdiction to hear and judge litigations concerning discrimination and harassment based on the prohibited grounds stipulated in the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, as well as concerning the exploitation of elderly or handicapped persons and affirmative action programs.
Catherine Bégin was a Canadian actress.
Hélène Pedneault was a Québécoise writer of many mediums who contributed much to the advancement of the feminist cause and also to Quebec sovereignty and the environment.
Micheline Bernard is a Canadian actress. She is most noted for her performances in the films Small Blind , for which she received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Actress at the 15th Jutra Awards in 2013, and Matthias & Maxime, for which she won the Prix Iris for Best Supporting Actress at the 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards in 2020.
Réjane Laberge-Colas was a judge of the Quebec Superior Court, sitting in Montreal, and the first woman to serve as a superior court judge in Canada. She was a founder and the first president of the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ). Laberge-Colas was inducted to the Order of Canada in 1997.
Thaïs Lacoste-Frémont was an advocate for women's rights in Quebec.
Micheline Legendre was a Canadian puppeteer. She performed on television and on stage with her troupe, Les marionnettes de Montréal. Her oeuvre spanned 1,170 puppets created and more than 16,000 performances for 2.5 million audience members. Legendre was a violinist by training and her marionnette troupe played with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, for Radio-Canada and the National Film Board of Canada, among others. She was also an art historian at the Université de Montréal.
Vincent Leclerc is a Canadian actor from Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2018 film The Fall of the American Empire , for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards in 2019, and his starring role as Séraphin Poudrier in the television series Les Pays d'en haut, for which he won the Gémeaux Award for Best Actor in a Short Run Drama Series in 2016.
