June 5, 2014
The time commitment to be an Action Canada Fellow is substantial. Fellows undertake this leadership program in conjunction with their regular work, studies or other projects in which they are engaged.
Louis-François Brodeur holds a Master’s degree in Political Philosophy from the Université de Montréal. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) and has received a doctoral grant from the FRQSC. His research focuses on professors’ academic freedom: how it emerges, interacts with its environment and changes. He has been the President of Force Jeunesse, an administrator at the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) and a graduate student representative at the Université de Montréal (FAÉCUM). In addition to organizing, hosting and participating in several conferences on union renewal, secularism, reasonable accommodations and the future of the public service, he has also written on the university system.