Chantal Hébert

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Life and career

Hébert was born on April 24, 1954, in Ottawa, Ontario, the oldest of five children of Micheline (Forest) and journalist Jean-Raymond St-Cyr.[1][2] In 1966, her family moved to Toronto; while in the city, the then-12-year-old was enrolled in École secondaire catholique Monseigneur-de-Charbonnel. She then attended Toronto's first public francophone high school, École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé.[3] After high school, Hébert obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 in political science from the bilingual Glendon College of York University.[4] She is a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto.

Hébert began her media career in 1975 at the regional television and radio newsroom of the French-language Radio-Canada facility in Toronto. She eventually became their reporter covering provincial politics at Queen's Park. After Radio-Canada appointed Hébert to cover federal politics on Parliament Hill, she worked as bureau chief for Montreal's Le Devoir and La Presse. She has written columns appearing in The London Free Press, the Ottawa Citizen, the National Post, and Metro, and currently in Le Devoir and the Toronto Star.

Hébert has two sons. The boys' father lives in Toronto, while Hébert lives in Montreal.[5]

The "Lobster Pot" story

In the summer of 1995, Hébert broke the story in La Presse that the 1995 Quebec referendum question's guarantee of an offer of partnership with the rest of Canada before declaring sovereignty following a "Yes" vote was a sham. Hébert wrote that in a June 13 meeting with fifteen foreign diplomats, Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau had stated that what mattered most was to get a majority vote from Quebec citizens for the proposal to secede from Canada because with that, Quebecers would be trapped "like lobsters thrown in boiling water" (in French: "comme des homards dans l'eau bouillante").[6]

At the time, Parizeau was in France and in his place Quebec's deputy premier, Bernard Landry, who was not present at the meeting, declared categorically that the report was false. However, Hébert clarified her sources, stating that the information had been given to Foreign Affairs Canada in an official briefing by Jan Fietelaars, the Ambassador from the Netherlands who had been a participant at the meeting; in addition, she had backed up the claim by having it confirmed by three others: Ambassador Christian Fellens of Belgium, who was also present, and two other diplomatic attendees who spoke off the record. The remark hampered support for the "Yes" side as a result.[7]

Pundit and author

Currently, Hébert is a national affairs writer with the Toronto Star as well as a guest columnist for Le Devoir and L'actualite. She appears frequently on CBC Television's The National as a member of the At Issue political panel hosted by Rosemary Barton alongside fellow panelists Andrew Coyne and Althia Raj. Hébert is also a regular participant in various other French and English-language television and radio current affairs programs.[3][8]

Hébert received the 2005 Public Service Citation of the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX). In February 2006, the Public Policy Forum voted her the Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism.[4] She delivered the Michener Lecture at Queen's University in 2008.

In June 2006, Hébert took two months' leave of absence from the Toronto Star to write her first book, French Kiss: Stephen Harper's Blind Date with Quebec (Knopf Canada, February 2007, Template:ISBN). French Kiss received shortlist honours for the 2008 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction.[9]

In September 2014, her second book was released, The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was (in French, Confessions post-référendaires: Les acteurs politiques de 1995 et le scénario d'un oui). The book, cowritten with Jean Lapierre, was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.[10]

Honours and awards

She was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada on 23 November 2012.[11]

Honorary degrees
Location Date School Degree Gave Commencement Address
Template:Flagu May 2009 Bishop's University Doctor of Civil Law (DCL)[12] Yes
Template:Flagu 6 June 2012 York University Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[13][14] Yes
Template:Flagu June 19, 2013 University of Western Ontario Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[15][16] Yes
Template:Flagu June 2014 Concordia University Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[17][18] Yes
Template:Flagu 22 October 2014 University of Manitoba Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)[19][20] Yes
Template:Flagu May 14, 2015 Mount Saint Vincent University Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)[21] Yes
Template:Flagu 5 June 2015 Loyalist College Honorary Diploma[22] Yes
Template:Flagu October 2015 Wilfrid Laurier University Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)[23] Yes
Template:Flagu Spring 2016 University of British Columbia Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[24][25] Yes
Template:Flagu Spring 2017 Dalhousie University Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[26][27] Yes
Template:Flagu 15 June 2021 Carleton University Doctor of Laws (LL.D)[28][29][30][31] Yes

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  1. ↑ https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/352703/st-cyr-deces
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  3. ↑ a b CBC News, Chantal Hébert, The National, Retrieved November 22, 2012
  4. ↑ a b Book Lounge Canada, Author Spotlight – Chantal Hébert Biography, Retrieved November 22, 2012
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