Lawyer and Notary Public since 1988, Gérard Lévesque has been for a decade (1991-2001) Executive Director of AJEFO, the network of the bilingual judges and lawyers of Ontario. He has also been Editor (1984-1992) at the Reference Centre for French Language Common Law Documentation of the Canadian Law Information Council (CLIC); Director (1990-1992) of the Center for Legal Translation and Documentation (University of Ottawa); Professor (1991-1992) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa; and Deputy Judge (1997-2017) at the Toronto Small Claims Court. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.

He has been the author of the original version of “Language Rights of the Accused”, a document made available to judges by the National Judicial Institute. Mr. Lévesque has been greatly involved in the field of language rights.

He has been Secretary General (1978-1981) of the French Canadian Association of Ontario; Chairman (1987-1991) of the Official Languages Panel of the Court Challenges Program; and President (1994-1999) of the Council for French Culture in America.

In the area of school rights, he played a major role in the recognition of the right of the Franco-Ontarian community to manage its educational facilities. He has been Member of the Board of directors (1972) of the Canadian Association for French Language Education; President of the French Language Advisory Committee of the Ottawa Board of Education (1975-1976); Eastern Ontario Regional President (1977-1979) of the Ontario French Language School Boards Association; Trustee (1987-1988) of the Ottawa Roman Catholic Separate School Board; Member (1986-1994) of the Languages of Instruction Commission of Ontario and Member (1989-1995) of the Board of directors of St-Anne University (Church Point, Nova Scotia).

Mr. Lévesque has received the Medal of the 125th Anniversary of Confederation (1992), the Order of the dialogue of cultures given by the Ontario Section of the French Language Parlementarians (1997) and the Merit Award of the Association of French Speaking Jurists of Ontario (2004). On September 25, 2012, he received the Ontario Francophonie Award recognizing citizen whose social, economic, political or cultural contributions make a difference in the francophone community and in Ontario as a whole.

Mr. Lévesque holds a Baccalaureate in Philosophy from St-Paul University, a Baccalaureate in Arts and a Baccalaureate of Laws (1986) from University of Ottawa.