Commissioner Théberge has a PhD in linguistics from McGill University, a master’s degree in applied linguistics from the University of Ottawa and a bachelor’s degree in history from the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. His experience with official language minority communities is significant. He spent a large part of his career at the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface. He was president and vice-chancellor of the Université de Moncton, and as a senior public servant he served as assistant deputy minister at the Bureau de l’éducation française in Manitoba’s Department of Education, Citizenship and Youth and as executive director to the Council of Ministers of Education of Canada. He then became assistant deputy minister in Ontario’s Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities.
