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About Renée Dupuis
- Renée Dupuis (born January 17, 1949) is a Canadian lawyer and an independent member of the Senate of Canada.
- Dupuis specialized in Canadian administrative law, Human rights law, and Canadian Indigenous law.
- She was chosen for appointment to the Senate on November 2, 2016, by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.Dupuis has been a legal advisor and consultant for First Nations organizations in negotiating tripartite comprehensive claims and in constitutional negotiations.
- She chaired the Indian Specific Claims Commission, a federal commission of inquiry, and the Barreau du Québec's committee on the rights of Aboriginal peoples.She was appointed the vice-president of the Commission on Human Rights and Youth Rights of Quebec in 2011, was a member of the Canadian Human Rights Act Review Panel and served as a commissioner with the Canadian Human Rights Commission.In 2001, she won the Governor General’s Award for French-language non-fiction in 2001 for her book “Justice for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.”
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