Bella Moses-Petawabano

Christina Gilpin

Biography to be published shortly.

Luc Lainé, chairman

Luc Lainé, B.A., is a member of the Huron Wendat Nation and former Delegated Chief within the Council of his First Nation. During his political term, he was, in collaboration with the Grand Chief, the Chief in charge of the settlement of the specific claim called the 40 Arpents and the consultation of the members of his nation for the change of their national mode of election.

In 1978, he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and a minor in Business Law at Laval University in Quebec City.

For the last 30 years, he has carried out his professional activities across the country within many Canadian and Aboriginal organizations as well as in the private sector. The majority of his activities were conducted in Aboriginal communities. He has always been curious to fully understand the issues of interest to Aboriginal peoples across Canada, and acted with great respect in his dealings with them. His great ability to listen and his innate sense of diplomacy have often been pointed out as much by his colleagues as by his vis-à-vis.

He is currently the President of Orihwa Inc., an Aboriginal society specializing, among other things, in the development and funding of socio-economic projects in Aboriginal communities across Canada.

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Daniel Berrouard

Daniel Berrouard is a biologist. He has spent more than forty years in the Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques. He has been active primarily in the nordic environment and ministerial coordination of aboriginal affairs.

In the course of his career, he and his family made their home for some ten years in the Eeyou Istchee/ Baie-James Territory. His earliest experiences in Eeyou Istchee date back to 1973, when he was a student at the Centre d’étude nordique at Université Laval. From 2006 to 2010, he was head of the wildlife management service for Northern Quebec.

He is currently a member of the Evaluating Committee (COMEV), the Review Committee (COMEX) and the Kativik Environmental Quality Commission (KEQC). He has also been a member of the James Bay Advisory Committee on the Environment (JBACE) and the Hunting, Fishing and Trapping Coordinating Committee (HFTCC).

Robert Joly

Robert Joly holds a masters degree in the biological sciences from the Université de Montréal. He entered Quebec’s public service in 1976 and has 35 years of experience in a variety of fields related to the environment, first at the Department of Recreation, Fish and Game, and later with the Ministère du Conseil Exécutif.

In 1990, he joined the Department of the Environment as advisor to the Assistant Deputy Minister of Sustainable Development. In 1992-1993, he served as interim director of the Direction des évaluations environnementales (environmental assessment directorate.) In 1993, he became head of development at the Direction des évaluations environnementales and from 1996 to 2002, he was coordinator of the bank stabilization program created in response to the torrential rains of July 1996.

From 2002 until 2011, Mr. Joly served as head of the Service des projets industriels et en milieu nordique (industrial and Northern projects) and then as interim director of environmental assessments. Mr. Joly retired from the Department in April 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was chair of the Strategic Environmental Assessment Committee on Shale Gas.

Robert Joly was for a number of years a member of the administrative council of the Association Québécoise pour l’Évaluation d’Impacts (AQEI) and served as president of the Secrétariat International Francophone pour l’Évaluation Environnementale (SIFÉE) in 2003-2004 and 2008-2009.