Paul Chartrand Bio

Personal

• From traditional Metis community of St. Laurent, Manitoba.

Academic & Professional

• Professor of law (retired) specializing in the law and policy of Canada and other states respecting indigenous peoples.
• Sixty plus publications, including the books “Who Are Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples?” and “Manitoba’s Metis Settlement Scheme of 1870”
• College President, University department head.
• Senior advisor at the First Ministers’ Conferences on Aboriginal Constitutional Reform 1984 – 87
• Opinions & advice to governments in Canada & Australia, Aboriginal organisations, and law firms.

Public service

• Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (1991-96) commissioner
• Aboriginal Healing Foundation 1998-99. Founding director
• Aboriginal Justice Implementation Commission of MB commissioner 1999-2001.
• Advisor & participant in the international deliberations on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 1985-2006.