Renée Dupuis (born January 17, 1949) is a Canadian lawyer and a retired independent member of the Senate of Canada.
She was chosen for appointment to the Senate on November 2, 2016, by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
[1] Dupuis has been a legal advisor and consultant for First Nations organizations in negotiating tripartite comprehensive claims and in constitutional negotiations.
She chaired the Indian Specific Claims Commission, a federal commission of inquiry, and the Barreau du Québec's committee on the rights of Aboriginal peoples.
[2] In 2001, she won the Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction in 2001 for her book “Justice for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.”[3] This article about a Quebec Member of the Canadian Senate is a stub.