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How did you come to your area of research?
I was teaching in Alberta in a Francophone area when one day, the president of the legislative assembly told an MPP that speaking French was a privilege and not a right. I have always been preoccupied with social injustice, but this incident focussed my interest and I began to delve deeper into language rights and education in minority settings.
What would you change in the world today if you could?
I would dissolve social and systemic injustices that are at the root of inequalities between individuals, provinces, countries and continents.
What would your co-workers be most surprised to know about you?
My father is an Anglophone.
What is your favourite pastime?
Gardening.
What is the quality you value the most?
Equity (not to be confused with equality) and curiosity.
What is your greatest hope for the future?
For me? That my work has a positive impact in the world of education. For society? That we come to understand that diversity, variation and differences are the norm. The existence of a fixed and universal norm is fiction.
