Jean-Jacques Rainville

Born in Sherbrooke, Québec, Me Jean-Jacques Rainville studied at Collège Saint-Laurent, at the Université de Sherbrooke, at the École du Barreau and at the Université de Montréal. He began his career in the City of Montréal’s legal department, after which he joined the legal department of the City of Longueuil as Director. He later joined Dunton Rainville and became chairman of the board of the firm, where his practice focuses primarily on administrative law, public law, labour relations and municipal law. Me Rainville represents many private, public and para-public-sector employers.

Me Rainville has frequently pleaded before all judicial bodies, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also presented many bills before Québec National Assembly and negotiated many contracts and collective agreements.

He is president of La Financière Améribec Inc., governor of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the South Shore of Montréal and governor of the Québec Bar Foundation. Me Rainville is a member of both the Québec Bar and the Canadian Bar Association. He is also a member of several associations, including the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law and the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.

He was a founding member and chairman of the board of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher, president of the Société pour le progrès de la Montérégie and of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the South Shore of Montréal. He was also chairman of the board of directors of Développement Aéroport Saint-Hubert de Longueuil. He speaks at l’École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal, Collège de Maisonneuve, the Canadian Institute, the Centre des Conférences Professionnelles de Montréal, the Corporation des officiers municipaux agréés du Québec (COMAQ), as well as at the Québec Bar’s continuing education courses on many occasions, at the Perform Group and at l’Union des municipalités du Québec.

He is involved in countless cultural and charitable organizations, such as Carbone 14 and l’Usine C, Théâtre de la Ville, the Longueuil Symphony Orchestra, Carrefour Jeunesse, la Maison de Jonathan, la Fondation des Amis de la Casa, the Charles-LeMoyne and Pierre-Boucher hospital foundations, the Fondation du Prêt d’Honneur, Moisson Rive-Sud, the Information and Referral Center of Greater Montréal, the Fondation du Collège Saint-Laurent and many others.

Areas of expertise

• Access to information
• Constitutional law
• Human rights and freedoms
• Advice for managers
• Human rights and freedoms in an employment context
• Pay equity
• Collective labor relations
• Individual employment relationships
• Health and safety at work
• Essential services
• Commercial arbitration

Admission to the Bar

• 1976

Education

• Master’s degree in labour law (reading) – Université de Montréal
• LL.L. – Université de Sherbrooke

Professional activities and associations

• Life Governor, Québec Bar Foundation
• Member of theOrdre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés CRHA
• Member of the Canadian Bar Association
• Member and Governor of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Member of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
• President, La Financière Améribec inc.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Carbone 14, Usine C inc.
• Chairman of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Québec
• Member of the Disciplinary Council, Québec Bar (1995-1996)
• Vice-President, Professional Training Committee, Québec Bar (1993-1994)