Michel Cormier is a career journalist, author and expert consultant on journalism. He was executive director of news and current affairs at Radio-Canada from 2012 to 2018 and he currently serves as executive director of the Leaders’ Debates Commission.

Michel Cormier began his broadcasting career at Radio-Canada in Moncton. He has been a parliamentary correspondent for Radio-Canada and CBC in Ottawa, Quebec National Assembly bureau chief and foreign correspondent in Moscow, Paris and Beijing. From 2011 to 2012, he was director of Radio-Canada Acadie in Moncton.

Richard Saillant is a Moncton-based economist and public policy consultant. He holds a B.A. with double major in economics and political science, a M.A. in economics from the Université de Montréal and an M.B.A. from McGill University. Richard has spent nearly twenty years in government and academia, including as Director General at Industry Canada, as former vice-president of the Université de Moncton and as Director of the Donald J. Savoie Institute. He is the author of a number of publications including A Tale of Two Countries: How the Great Demographic Imbalance is Pulling Canada Apart. Richard was also a columnist for l’Acadie Nouvelle and for the Brunswick News dailies from 2020 to 2023.

Gabriel Arsenault is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the École des hautes études publiques of the Université de Moncton. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Toronto and is the author of L'économie sociale au Québec. Une perspective politique (PUQ, 2018). The book won the Prix Ministère des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec / Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (2019). Gabriel Arsenault also assumes responsibility for the management of the Polimeter project within the DJSI, whose mission is to provide objective, transparent and reliable information on government actions.