Brent Tyler

Brent Tyler is a lawyer in Quebec, Canada, known for his frequent court challenges to "Bill 101", Quebec's Charter of the French Language. He was disbarred in March 2016 for having not filed financial reports with the Quebec Bar Association and is not currently licensed to practice law. He was temporarily disbarred in November 2011 for not completing the continuing education requirements.

Notable legal cases involving Tyler include:

Tyler was an unsuccessful candidate for the Equality Party in the 1994 Quebec provincial election in the riding of Westmount–Saint-Louis. He came fourth with 727 votes (2.17%), compared to the winner, Jacques Chagnon, who received 26,478 votes (79.2%). (The Equality Party had won the Westmount-Saint-Louis riding in the previous election.)

From 2001 to 2004, he was president of the pro-English language lobby group, Alliance Quebec[1]. His term as president was marked by infighting and questioning of the organization's continued relevance. During his term as president, Alliance Quebec membership dropped by 50% to 1554 members, its lowest-ever number. Also during his term, grants and donations to Alliance Quebec dropped from nearly $950,000 per year to less than $500,000. During his Alliance Quebec tenure, the press characterized him as having a "brazen, ramrod persona" and criticized him for his "hair-trigger temper". He resigned as president 4 months before his term was finished. The year after he resigned, Alliance Quebec ran out of money and closed down.

In June, 2014, Tyler announced in a press conference at the EMSB Headquarters that he will be running for the position of chair for the English Montreal School Board. He dropped out of the race by email in August 2014.

Tyler is a member of the Special Committee for Canadian Unity, a lobby group that existed in the 1990s and revived for one press conference during the 2014 Quebec election to encourage the federal government to intervene in the election.

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