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Rémy Beauregard
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Rémy M. Beauregard brings thirty-five (35) years of management experience in the non-profit and government sectors at the Federal, Quebec and Ontario level. Since 2001 he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science a Laurentian University in Sudbury teaching public administration.
Until 2001, Rémy M. Beauregard was Executive Director of the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Canada's largest human rights agency and a leader in its field. The Commission is responsible for the administration of the Human Rights Code. Among its many responsibilities the Commission reviews 2000 human rights complaints a year, 75% of which are workplace related. It also provides public education activities throughout Ontario as well as in the world's largest multicultural community, the City of Toronto.
During more than seven (7) years at the helm of the Commission, Rémy M. Beauregard restructured the agency introducing mediation services to resolve complaints and promoting education as a means of empowering employers, employees and service providers in their daily management of human rights issues. As the CEO of the Commission, Rémy M. Beauregard has been called on a regular basis to provide advice to employers, trade union and employee groups on best practices to avoid litigation procedures.
Upon retiring from the Ontario Public Service in 2001, Rémy M. Beauregard undertook an international career as an international human rights and public service advisor. In April 2002, the United Nation Development Programme office in Rwanda retained his services to advise the Constitutional Commission of Rwanda on the planning of the referendum that would take place in 2003 to adopt the new constitution of Rwanda. In August 2003, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights retained his advisory services to assist civil society organizations in the development of the legislation for the establishment of a national human rights institution in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In September 2003 he became International Institutional Development Advisor to the Uganda Human Rights Commission. On the occasion of the First African Conference of National Human Rights Institutions organized under by the African Union in October 2004 in Ethiopia, Rémy M. Beauregard, at the request of the Regional Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Addis Ababa, was instrumental in developing the programme of the conference and served has its international expert. While in Uganda, Rémy M. Beauregard provided training on the rights of children and on mediation to volunteers working with War Child Canada in the Northern conflict region.
Among his many accomplishments as a senior Ontario civil servant at the Assistant Deputy Minister level, Rémy M. Beauregard directed the Jobs Ontario Youth Summer Programs, the implementation of the Ontario Government's French Language Services Act, the development of post-secondary programs and institutions, and negotiations for the provincial government's Ontario Native Secretariat.
Rémy M. Beauregard has also worked in Quebec's health and social services field as Executive Director of one of Quebec's largest rehabilitation facilities. During his tenure at the Pavillon du Parc, he introduced a variety of new community-based rehabilitation services jointly with the education sector and employers.
Rémy M. Beauregard also has ten (10) years of experience in the non-profit sector in Ontario's education community.
As a consultant, Rémy M. Beauregard, in 2002, established the permanent secretariat of the Canadian Association of Statutory Human Rights Agencies and became its first Executive Secretary. In 2004 and 2006, his services were retained to provide training on human rights and equity to management staff of Toyota Canada.
Rémy M. Beauregard holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration (MAP) from Quebec's École Nationale d'Administration Publique (1984), as well as a B.A from the University of Ottawa (Honours in History, 1969).
During the summer of 1987, he attended Queen's University's Senior Executive Program. His background also includes certified mediation training from the University of Windsor Law School.
In 1999, he attended the 31st session of the International Institute of Human Rights held at the Robert Schumann University in Strasbourg, France. Rémy M. Beauregard is called regularly to provide advice at the international level as part of Canada's commitments under de United Nations Carter. In 1996 he was part of a Canadian delegation that met with the newly created National Human Rights Commission of India to offer Canadian assistance in the development of human rights programs. In October 2000 he was invited to attend a weeklong international seminar on Globalization and Human Rights at the Wilton Park Conference Center in England.
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