Michel Bastarache

Michel Bastarache

Dans une lettre qu'il adresse a ses deux enfants, morts d'une maladie incurable, Michel Bastarache se rappelle son enfance en Acadie puis sa carriere, jusqu'a devenir le premier juge acadien a sieger a la Cour supreme du Canada. Me Bastarache raconte sa constante lutte pour l'egalite des communautes francophone et anglophone. Il revient sur son engagement au sein des groupes de defense des francophones hors Quebec, puis sur sa carriere de professeur, de fonctionnaire, d'avocat et de juge. Dans ce recit, il amene le lecteur dans les coulisses de ses plus importantes causes et revele certains secrets du plus haut tribunal canadien. Me Bastarache reagit egalement a la polemique entourant la Commission d'enquete sur le processus de nomination des juges du Quebec et sur son travail a titre de mediateur dans le processus de reconciliation et de compensation pour les victimes alleguees d'agressions sexuelles par d'anciens pretres au Nouveau-Brunswick.


Ce livre est publie en francais.



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In this intimate volume, Michel
Bastarache reveals details of his youth in Acadia and his multiple professional
roles before becoming the first Acadian justice to sit on the Supreme Court of
Canada. In a letter addressed to his two children who died from an incurable
disease, Me. Bastarache recounts his constant fight for equality between
francophone and anglophone communities. He reminisces on his commitment among
groups protecting francophones outside Quebec, then on his careers as teacher,
civil servant, lawyer, and juge. In this story he takes the reader backstage to
his most important causes and he reveals some of the secrets of the highest
court in Canada. Me. Bastarache weighs in on the controversy surrounding the
Inquiry Commission on the process for appointing judges of the Court of Quebec,
as well as his mediator work for reconciliation and compensation of alleged
victims of sexual abuse by ex-priests in New Brunswick.


This book is published in French.