Prix Condorcet

Prix Condorcet was instituted in 1993 by the Mouvement laïque québécois to honour a public personality who had worked for the defense of the secularity and the freedom of thought. It is named in honnor of the Marquis de Condorcet, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment and one of the writers of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.

* 1993: Micheline Trudel, voluntary.
* 1994: Henry Morgentaler, defender of the right to abortion in Canada.
* 1995: Centrale des syndicats du Québec, trade union of teachers.
* 1996: Louise Laurin, founder of the Coalition for the deconfessionnalisation of the school system.
* 1997: Institut canadien de Montréal, liberal and anticlerical organization (1844-1880).
* 1998: All signatories of Refus Global.
* 1999: Duplessis Orphans Association.
* 2000: Jacques Hébert, senator and humanist of secularity.
* 2001: Pierre Bourgault, founder of Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale and free-thinker.
* 2002: Jacques Godbout and Jacques Mackay, former presidents of the Mouvement laïque de langue Française (MLF).
* 2003: Janette Bertrand, playwright. [http://www.mlq.qc.ca/3_condorcet/condorcet_2003_en.html]
* 2004: Rodrigue Tremblay, economist, politician and humanist.
* 2005: Paul Bégin, deputy and republican partisan.
* 2006: Daniel Baril, journalist and anthropologist, founder member and former president of the MLQ.
* 2007: Yolande Geadah, essayist, public debater over immigration and religious issues.