La Fondation Aubin intends to make its contribution to opening up spaces where progressive thinking and knowledge can flourish. Its Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson Research Centre encourages academic and activist research in social science and the humanities in Canada/Québec. It tries to foster a closer connection between places of intellectual production and the concrete realities of workers and basic human needs.

Many problems rooted in the founders’ areas of research are of interest to La Fondation Aubin: Capitalist globalization and imperialism; Canadian confederation, its past and political future; First Nations, rights, conditions and struggles; French Canadians and Quebecers, language issues, the national question and independence; Culture, integration, marginalization, ethnicity and immigration; Links of nationalism with civil society and popular movements; History of the labour movement in Québec and Canada, and its situation in North America; Theories on political action and ideology in Québec; Anatomy, forms and structures of Canadian and Québec capitalism; Québec, Canada and imperialism; Status of women and political struggles; Secularism, socialism and religions; Socialist strategies in peripheral countries and dialectics of international and transnational relations; The state of research and other academic questions in Canada and Québec; Science, technology and social change, etc.