Symposium: 40 Years of Bill 101 in Quebec - Five Experts' Views

CIRANO

Tuesday 22 Oct 2019
From 11:30AM To 2PM

Event organized in collaboration with

On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Bill 101 in 2017, the management of Language Problems and Language Planning magazine entrusted François Vaillancourt, CIRANO Researcher and Fellow and Emeritus Professor at Université de Montréal, with the responsibility of producing a special issue of this journal examining the effects of this law. This issue contains articles by Richard Bourhis, Charles Castonguay, Gilles Grenier, Michel Paillé and Marc Termotte. This conference presented the main results.

Richard Bourhis

Emeritus Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal

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Charles Castonguay

Full Professor (retired), University of Ottawa

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Gilles Grenier

Full Professor, University of Ottawa

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Michel Paillé

Demographer, demolinguist

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Marc Termote

Associate Professor, Université de Montréal

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François Vaillancourt

A CIRANO Researcher and Fellow since 2004, François Vaillancourt is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Economics at the Université de Montréal.

Holder of a PhD in economics from Queen's University (1978), he published over 300 texts, particularly on intergovernmental financial relations, the complexity and impact of Canadian taxation, the cost-effectiveness of linguistic studies and attributes, and the economics of language policies.

Named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2009, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva in 2021 for his work on the economics of language issues. Over his career, he has been a Fulbright Canadian Research Scholar in Kennesaw (2007) and a Shastri Lecturer in India (1993). He has been a visiting professor/researcher at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta (2007 and 2009), FUCaM (Mons, Belgium, 2006), École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (Paris, 2006 and 2008), the University of Toronto (1991) and the Australian National University (1991). He was also research coordinator for the MacDonald Commission (1983-1986) and associate editor of Canadian Public Policy-Analyse de Politiques (1986-1995). He has acted as a consultant for various national (including CIDA, House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, Commission Séguin, Law Reform Commission of Canada, Conseil de la Fédération, Conseil de la langue française du Québec, CSST, Finance Canada, Forum of Federations, Federal Expert Panel on Equalization Reform, Institut Fraser, Office de la langue française, Statistics Canada and the Auditor General of Canada and Quebec) and international organizations (AFD, World Bank, IMF, OECD, UNDP). He has worked in 35 countries/entities on issues of regional and local financial resources (taxation, transfers) and provided training in this field for the African Tax Institute, the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, the World Bank, the IMF, and the Hague Academy for Local Governance.

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