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Governor General strips two Order of Canada appointees of honours
The rare removals follow convictions and disciplinary findings against Peter Dalglish and Jacques Lamarre, with Lamarre also fined $75,000.
- Gov. Gen. Mary Simon stripped Peter Dalglish and Jacques Lamarre of their Order appointments, with notices of termination published in the Canada Gazette today.
- Dalglish, a humanitarian who founded Street Kids International, received the honour in 2016 but was convicted in 2019 of sexually abusing two boys in Nepal.
- Lamarre, former CEO of SNC-Lavalin appointed in 2005, recently lost his Quebec engineering licence following findings of corruption and collusion involving payments to the family of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
- Removal from the Order is a rare measure, with formal revocations reflecting a standard procedure for addressing serious misconduct among honourees.
- Signed by Simon on April 15, these terminations finalize the removal of national honours from individuals convicted of serious misconduct, reinforcing the established accountability mechanism.
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2 Order of Canada Recipients Stripped of Their Honours
Two recipients of Canada’s highest civilian honour have been stripped of their honours. One is a convicted sex offender; the other was found guilty of corruption. Peter Dalglish, a former humanitarian worker, and Jacques Lamarre, the ex-CEO of Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, were removed from the Order of Canada. The terminations were announced in the May 16 edition of the Canada Gazette, with the order signed by Governor General Mary Si…
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Convicted sex abuser, former SNC Lavalin CEO both stripped of Order of Canada
OTTAWA - A convicted sex offender and a former engineering executive who was found guilty of corruption have been stripped of their appointments to the Order of Canada, the country's
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