Nobel Peace Prize Laureate’s visit to MIGS in Montreal
In the third year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Oleksandra Matviichuk arrived in Montréal on a mission: to inch closer to serving justice for all the documented Russian war crimes as a precondition for peace on her native land.
At the inaugural John Lemieux Human Rights lecture organized by the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University, Matviichuk was joined by the Hon. Chris Alexander, former Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada (IRCC), the Hon. Irwin Cotler, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, and Mark MacKinnon, The Globe and Mail’s senior international correspondent.
The expert panel, moderated by La Presse journalist Laura-Julie Perreault, also discussed Canada’s role in countering the authoritarian world order on the battlefield, in the media, and in the courtroom — and whether the nation is doing enough.