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OTTAWA, November 18, 2011  —  Professor Benoît Pelletier, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section, has been named Commander of the Ordre des Palmes académiques by the French ambassador to Canada, His Excellency Philippe Zeller, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to strengthening the relationship between Canada and France.

A graduate of Université Laval, the University of Ottawa, the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the Université Aix-Marseille III, Benoît Pelletier was a regular faculty member in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law from 1990 to 1998 and assistant dean from 1996 to 1998.

Elected a Liberal member of the Quebec National Assembly for Chapleau in 1998, Benoît Pelletier served as minister responsible for portfolios such as Canadian intergovernmental affairs, francophones within Canada and aboriginal affairs. He returned to teaching in 2008 with the Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law.

The Ordre des Palmes académiques honours staff under the French ministries of National Education and Higher Education who have “distinguished themselves at the university level and have provided outstanding service to the teaching profession, or have made a genuine contribution to the development of extracurricular, postschool and vocational training related material.”