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Michael Wernick (English & French)

Jarislowsky Chair in Public Management and Part-time professor, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Professor Wernick's expertise includes:

  • Governance and political decision making in Canada
  • Foreign interference
  • Canadian politics
  • Federalism


André Lecours (English and French)

Full Professor, School of Political Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences.

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Professor Lecours expertise includes:

  • Canadian and Quebec politics
  • Nationalism
  • Federalism
  • Comparative politics


Errol Mendes (English only)

Full professor, Faculty of Law, Common Law and former Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre.

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Professor Mendes' research includes constitutional and human rights law, global governance, public international law.


D.C Bélanger (English and French)

Full Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts

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Professor Bélanger's expertise includes:

  • History of the Canadian and French Canadian relationship with the British monarchy and Great Britain
  • Canadian-American relations
  • History of Canada
  • Political ideology


Diane Pacom (English and French)

Emeritus Professor, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Professor Pacom can speak to the history and relationship of the British monarchy and Canada.