Colonel Jérôme Vincent Roger Jean-Pierre Lacroix-Leclair
Tour, France
Meritorious Service Decorations - Military Division
Meritorious Service Medal
Awarded on: 2022-10-05
Invested on: 2023-11-09
Between June 2019 and June 2022, as a French defence attaché to Canada, Colonel Lacroix Leclair strengthened the strategic alliance between France and Canada. Through his outstanding leadership and professionalism, he carried out the duty of remembrance, revived ministerial bilateral relations, renewed the unit exchange program and played a key role in building a monument celebrating the friendship between Canada and France. Colonel Lacroix Leclair’s diplomacy and attention to detail brought the two military forces closer, establishing permanent ties between the two Francophone countries.