Joel DeBellefeuille is regularly featured in Canadian newspapers and media for winning landmark human rights cases in the province of Quebec. His cases have established jurisprudence that is changing the way law enforcement agencies, government agencies and municipalities deal with systemic racism and discrimination within their communities. He is also a passionate businessman, entrepreneur, investor, husband and father.
Mr. DeBellefeuille also led the only electronic petition to the National Assembly on Bill 21 and another for racial profiling in the House of Commons in Ottawa. He is a strong human rights advocate and has appeared in and reported on; Global Television, CityNews Montreal, CBC News, CJAD800, The Montreal Gazette, The Suburban, Montreal Community Contact, The Canadian Press, CTV News, Savoir Media , QUB Radio with Geneviève Pettersen, Noovo.Info, 98. 5FM with Bénoit Dutrizac and Patrick Lagacé, The Aaron Rand Show, Newstalk Radio with co-host Sharman Yarnell, La Presse, The Huffington Post, The Globe & Mail, Vice; as well as a professional panelist for an accredited law course at McGill University and a guest lecturer at McMasters University for a law and sociology course.