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What I Wish I Had Told My Children

What I Wish I Had Told My Children

Bastarache, Michel
Silva, Julie Da
Trépanier, Antoine

Paperback

Series: Biography and Memoirs

Business BiographiesBiographies General

Publisher Price: $41.95

ISBN10: 0776639595
ISBN13: 9780776639598
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: May 9 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this beautifully written biography penned by journalist Antoine Trépanier, the Honourable Michel Bastarache recounts his youth in Acadia and the various professional roles he occupied before becoming the first Acadian to accede to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Written as a letter addressed to his two children, who died of an incurable disease, Bastarache recounts his constant fight for equality between francophone and anglophone communities. He reminisces on his commitment among groups protecting francophones outside Québec, then on his careers as teacher, civil servant, lawyer, and judge.

He takes the reader backstage to the most important causes he worked on and reveals some of the secrets of the highest court in Canada. He also weighs in on the controversy surrounding the Inquiry Commission on the process for appointing judges of the Court of Québec, as well as his mediator work for reconciliation and compensation of alleged victims of sexual abuse by ex-priests in New Brunswick.

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