Hearings of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission to be held in Montréal:

List of individuals and groups that will present briefs or testimonies

Montreal, November 27, 2007 – The Consultation Commission on Accommodation Practices Related to Cultural Differences (CCPARDC) will hold hearings from November 26 to 30 inclusively at the Palais des congrès (Montreal convention Centre), 1001 Place Jean-Paul Riopelle. The following individuals and organizations that will present briefs or testimonies on Wednesday, November 28 and Thursday, November 29 have agreed to be identified beforehand:

Wednesday November 28, 2007

TIME	METHOD OF PARTICIPATION	NAME	ORGANIZATION/TITLE
09:00	Brief	Lacerte, Pierre
09:15	Brief	Malek, Antoine	Association de la Communauté Copte Orthodoxe du Grand Montréal (ACCOM)
09:30	Brief	De la Sablonnière, Roxane	Université de Montréal et le Laboratoire des Changements Sociaux et de l'Identité
09:45	Brief	Rioux, Gilles Sorel, Robert
10:00	Brief	Sadeqa, Siddiqui	South Asian Women's Community Centre (SAWCC)
10:15	BREAK (15 min)
10:30	Brief	Sougavinski, Marc	CSSS de la Montagne
10:45	Brief	Bereza, Eugene	Biomedical Ethics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University
11:00	Brief	Hallak, Essem	Alliance for Equality and Diversity (MED)
11:15	Brief	Singh, Manjit et Bhabr, Harjeet	The Sikh Community of Montréal
11:30	Brief	Durand, Claire	Université de Montréal
11:45	LUNCH (1 h 45)
13:45	Brief	Greffard, Hélène	CLSC Parc Extension
14:00	Brief	Ayas, Raouf Massie, Faoud Karasivan, Karmel	Rassemblement des chrétiens du Moyen-Orient
14:15	Testimony	Case, Bruce	Université McGill
14:25	Testimony	Carignan, François
14:35	Testimony	Allard, Caroline
14:45	Testimony	Cebert, Hermann	Move - Immigrants - Canada
14:55	Testimony	Chami, Karina
15:05	BREAK (15 min.)
15:20	Testimony	Chtaibi, Rachida
15:30	Testimony	Bénard, Réal
15:40	Testimony	Rostand, Léonard
15:50	Testimony	Sauriol, Yves	Commission scolaire de Montréal
16:00	Testimony	Antar, Amanie

Thursday, November 29, 2007

TIME	METHOD OF PARTICIPATION	NAME	ORGANIZATION/TITLE
09:00	Brief	Trépanier, Réginald
09:15	Brief	Li, Xixi	Service à la famille chinoise du Grand Montréal
09:30	Brief	Lukhanda, Alfred	Communauté Catholique Congolaise de Montréal
09:45	Brief	Machouf, Élaheh	Association des femmes iraniennes de Montréal
10:00	Brief	Vaillancourt, Stéphane Meilleur, Marie-Josée	YMCA du Grand Montréal
10:15	BREAK (15 min)
10:30	Brief	Gauthier, Simon
10:45	Brief	Haydar, May	Al Hidaya
11:00	Brief	Hernandez, Carlos Miguel	Accueil Liaison Pour Arrivants
11:15	Brief	Wong, Alan	Coalition MultiMundo, Ethnoculture, and SVR Research Team
11:30	Brief	Karam, Georges
11:45	LUNCH (1 h 45)
13:45	Brief	Solervicens, Nora Tremblay, Laurent	L'Hirondelle, services d'accueil et d'intégration des immigrants
14:00	Brief	Ibnouzahir, Asmaa	Présence Musulmane Montréal
14:15	Testimony	Demers, Rosario
14:25	Testimony	Forget, Céline
14:35	Testimony	Fullum, Yvan
14:45	Testimony	Gaumond, Denis	Démarche personnelle
14:55	Testimony	Godbout, François	Pasto sociale Ahuntsic
15:05	BREAK (15 min)
15:20	Testimony	Maquet, Henry
15:30	Testimony	Megharbi, Bennour
15:40	Testimony	Chouinard, Jocelyn	La parole aux citoyens... pas aux organismes
15:50	Testimony	Menegazzi, Eric
16:00	Testimony	Talbot, Claude	Citoyen pour la laïcité à Verdun

The Commission

The CCAPRDC, co-chaired by sociologist and historian Gérard Bouchard and philosopher Charles Taylor, has been asked to take stock of accommodation practices and analyse all facets of the question by conducting a province-wide consultation. The Commission will submit a report and make recommendations to the Québec Premier on March 31, 2008.

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