Fedora Mathieu is a Haitian-Canadian Immigration and Refugee lawyer in Canada. She is a member of the Barreau du Québec since 2012 and of the Law Society of Ontario since 2017. A graduate from the Université de Montréal, she articled at the Human rights tribunal of Quebec. She received an LL.M from the University of Ottawa in 2014. Her thesis focused on the accountability of Humanitarian Non-State Actors in post-catastrophic settings. She completed field work in post-earthquake Haiti and used the implementation of housing rights as a case study. Her thesis was awarded the René-Lupien Prize, awarded annually for the best master’s thesis on a subject of special interest to the Canadian francophone community. From 2013 to 2018, Ms. Mathieu has worked as a private practitioner in Montreal and Toronto with a focus on vulnerable communities. She has assisted numerous refugee claimants with their immigration procedures, namely with their refugee claims before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Since February 2019, she works in Ottawa as a staff lawyer with Legal Aid Ontario.
