Overview

Alexandre is a trusted advisor to clients looking for compliance advice about unique Québec issues, such as language laws and consumer protection legislation. As a litigator, Alexandre also has significant experience dealing with large-scale infrastructure project disputes, defending class actions, and acting in commercial and regulatory disputes, including appearing before specialized tribunals.
Alexandre has represented clients before the Québec agricultural and food products marketing board (the Régie des marches agricoles et alimentaires du Québec), the Québec energy board (the Régie de l’énergie), the Québec access to information commission (the Commission d’accès à l’information), the Québec human rights commission (the Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse), the Ontario Broiler Hatching Egg and Chick Commission, the Ontario Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal, a Canadian Judicial Council Inquiry Committee, various arbitral tribunals, the Court of Québec, the Québec Superior Court, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Québec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
He has also advised clients appearing before the Québec environmental assessment board (the Bureau d’audiences publiques sur l’environnement) and a Joint Review Panel constituted by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Government of Canada.
Alexandre regularly represents clients in their dealings with the board charged with overseeing compliance with the Charter of the French Language (the Office Québécois de la langue française) as well as the Québec consumer protection bureau (the Office de la protection du consommateur) and the Travel Industry Council of Ontario.
Alexandre is a thought leader on language laws and consumer protection matters, having published extensive commentary on the evolution of the law in these areas and been regularly interviewed on these subjects by leading media organizations such as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters, Le Devoir, The Canadian Press and Lexpert.
From 2013 to 2019, Alexandre taught various subjects in the North American Common Law Program at the Université de Montréal including torts, judicial remedies and trial advocacy.
Béton Provincial in connection with its acquisition of CRH Canada Group Inc.
WT Microelectronics in its acquisition of Future Electronics for US$3.8 billion
Veolia Health Operating Services in the design-build defect claims against the constructors of the new Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal
The Association of Ontario Chicken Processors in its intervention before the Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires du Québec to preserve harmonized assurance of supply for chicken processors in Québec and Ontario.
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« Significant changes to Quebec’s Charter of the French Language could impact estates and trusts », STEP Inside, Vol 21, No. 3, November 2022 (with Héléna Gagné)

Practice Areas

• Administrative Law
• Commercial Law
• Civil Litigation
• Criminal Law
• Class Action Plaintiff

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2009 (ON); 2009 (QC)