Jean-Jacques Simard

Jean-Jacques Simard (born 1945) is a Québécois professor and sociologist.
He has been professor of sociology at Université Laval since 1976.
He began the first project into modern autonomous Inuit government in Canada. A critic of hydroelectric development in Baie-James, he left public function to become a counselor for Inuit dissidents in the famous James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement.
The Commission Bélanger-Campeau called him to give evidence in the aboriginal question.
From 1988–1989, he edited Recherches sociographiques, a journal published by the Département de sociologie, Faculté des sciences sociales of Université Laval, Quebec City.

• La longue marche des technocrates, 1979.. sur le site Les Classiques des sciences sociales.
• Tendances nordiques – Les changements sociaux, 1970–1990, chez les Cris et Inuits du Québec, 1995
• La Réduction: l’Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d’aujourd’hui, 2004

• 2004 – Governor General's Awards, La Réduction: l’Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d’aujourd’hui

• "Dallaire bloody memoir a GG winner Toronto poet Borson also a winner; Toews novel on Mennonites wins Credits tolerance of 'my people'". Toronto Star. 17 November 2004. Retrieved 7 May 2011.