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Michel Drapeau

Michel W. Drapeau is a law professor at the University of Ottawa. He is also a lawyer. He served in the Canadian Armed Forces for 34 year retiring in the rank of Colonel in 1993. They are the co-authors of a text on military law titled “Military Justice In Action” whose second edition was published by Carswell in 2015.

Does ‘Canada First’ apply to feeding our cadets?

opinion | BY MICHEL DRAPEAU | December 30, 2020

Auditor general’s report on sexual misconduct in military: another canon shot, new signal of distress

opinion | BY MICHEL DRAPEAU | November 26, 2018

Modernization of courts martial: a matter of priority

opinion | BY MICHEL DRAPEAU | October 15, 2018

Military rights to be affected by prorogation

opinion | BY JOSHUA JUNEAU, MICHEL DRAPEAU | July 23, 2018

Sajjan deserves applause for ‘transformational’ military justice reforms

opinion | BY JOSHUA JUNEAU, MICHEL DRAPEAU | May 14, 2018

Time for Parliament to legislate control over Canada’s military criminal justice system

opinion | BY JOSHUA JUNEAU, MICHEL DRAPEAU | January 15, 2018

Time for military to get real about risks of anti-malaria drug

opinion | BY MICHEL DRAPEAU, AMIR ATTARAN, PAT STOGRAN | March 13, 2017

Parliament should oversee appointment of incoming VCDS

opinion | BY JOSHUA JUNEAU, MICHEL DRAPEAU | January 30, 2017

Rash of cadets’ deaths at Royal Military College: the need for a coroner’s inquest

opinion | BY MICHEL DRAPEAU | September 12, 2016

Why’s the CF’s resistant to transparency, accountability, and oversight?

opinion | BY JOSHUA JUNEAU, MICHEL DRAPEAU | August 15, 2016

ATI on a slow descent to irrelevance, giving commissioner order-making power will not fix it

opinion | BY MICHEL DRAPEAU | April 4, 2016

Canada’s military summary trials are frozen in time: Drapeau, Juneau

opinion | BY JOSHUA JUNEAU, MICHEL DRAPEAU | February 15, 2016

Parliamentary control of Armed Forces: a matter of national urgency and public interest

opinion | BY GILLES LETOURNEAU, MICHEL DRAPEAU | January 18, 2016