Audrey Mayrand
Partner, Law Corporation
Audrey provides legal and strategic advice on constitutional law, language rights and Indigenous rights issues, as well as administrative and public law, in Quebec and across Canada.
Audrey appears before all levels of court, including the Federal Court of Appeal, the Quebec Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. She is one of the lawyers leading the legal challenge to Quebec’s Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (“Bill 96”, which amends the Charter of French Language).
Before joining Power Law, Audrey practiced constitutional and administrative law as legal counsel for a federal tribunal. She clerked for Chief Justice Yves de Montigny of the Federal Court of Appeal and Justice Marie-Josée Bédard, then of the Federal Court.
She also worked as a summer student in Aboriginal law at the Ontario Ministry of Environment, providing legal research support on the duty to consult Indigenous peoples.
Audrey obtained her degrees in common law and civil law, and practices in both English and French.
Roussel et al v Attorney general of Canada et al, T-252-26 (Federal Court) (The constitutionality of the policy of the Registrar of Indians to revoke Indian status before the outcome of a protestation under the Indian Act)
Ortona c Procureur général du Québec, no 500-17-121195-229 (Quebec Superior Court) (The constitutionality of Bill 96, An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec)
Quebec English School Boards Association c Procureur général du Québec, 500-17-135152-257 (Quebec Superior Court) (challenge to the 2025 budget cuts in education)
Quebec English School Boards Association c Procureur général du Québec, 2023 QCCS 2965, conf 2025 QCCA 383 (School board democracy and minority-language education rights)
Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique v British Columbia, 2025 BCSC 962
Institution royale pour l’avancement des sciences (Université McGill) c Ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur, 2025 QCCS 1289 (validity of the amendments to tuition fees at Quebec English-language universities)
Joyal c Procureur général du Canada et al, 500-09-031387-251 (Quebec Superior Court) (constitutionality of the failure of the federal and Quebec governments to see that a French-language version of the unilingual constitutional texts is adopted)
Malii v British Columbia, S036687 (British Columbia Superior Court) (Aboriginal title of the Tsetsaut/Skii Km Lax Ha Nation)
Commission scolaire francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest v Northwest Territories (Education, Culture and Employment), 2023 SCC 31 (eligibility for French-language instruction in the Northwest Territories)
R v Boyer, 2022 SKCA 62 (Métis rights)
Canada (Commissioner of Official Languages) v Canada (Employment and Social Development), 2022 FCA 14 (Intervention of the Quebec Community Groups Network)
Reference re Code of Civil Procedure (Que), art 35, 2021 SCC 27 (Intervention of the Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges)
Environnement Jeunesse c Procureur général du Canada, 2021 QCCA 1871 (Intervention of Amnesty International Canada in the context of a class action related to climate change)
Newfoundland and Labrador (Attorney General) v. Uashaunnuat (Innu of Uashat and of Mani‑Utenam), 2020 SCC 4 (Overlapping Aboriginal title across provincial boundaries)
Saskatchewan v Good Spirit School Division No. 204, 2020 SKCA 34 (religious minority rights)
Presentation: “Droits linguistiques et accès à la justice en anglais au Québec », Training session offered by the Barreau de Montréal, 2026
Presentation: “Access to Justice in English in Québec”, in the Access to Justice in Minority Language in Canada course, with prof. M. Pomerleau, McGill University, 2026
Presentation: “Droits linguistiques au Québec”, in the Droits linguistiques au Canada course, with prof. F. Larocque, Ottawa University, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
Presentation: “La version française de la Constitution, un projet toujours inachevé”, Symposium of the Fédération étudiante de droit du Québec, 2022
Teaching : “Les droits linguistiques”, course offered at Université Laurentienne, 2022
Presentation: “The Charter of the French Language & Labour Relations”, in the Labour Law course, with S. Defour-Wyre, McGill University, 2019, 2020
Presentation: “Indigenous Peoples & the Canadian Constitution”), in the Canadian Federalism Law course, with M. Sandilands, 2019
“Étude sur les obstacles à l’utilisation de l’article 530 du Code criminel en Colombie-Britannique”, AJEFCB (January 2019) (with J. Klinck, S.-M. Scott, G. Decat-Beltrami, M. Power, C. Faucher and R. Léger)
Presentation: “Unsettling Reconciliation: Healing Indigenous – Canadian Relationships with Indigenous Legal Traditions”, paper presented at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s national event in Montreal (April 24-27, 2010).
Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications, Study of Bill C-11, An Act to amend the Broadcasting Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts, representing the Alliance nationale de l’industrie musicale (ANIM), October 5, 2022 (duty to consult official language minority communities)
During her legal studies, Audrey clerked for Chief Justice Nicole Duval Hesler of the Court of Appeal of Quebec.
Audrey represented the students of the Truth, Reconciliation and Indigenous Peoples research seminar at McGill University in giving a statement of reconciliation at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s national event in Montreal in April 2014.
She also worked as a research assistant for Professor Shauna Van Praagh and Professor Lara Khoury, providing support in drafting an English-language introductory textbook on Quebec civil law.
In 2014, Audrey studied for four months at the University of Hong Kong.
Before attending McGill University, Audrey studied at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and École de musique Vincent-d’Indy.
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