Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 1983-06-20
Invested on: 1983-08-27
Founding member of the Provincial Committee of Patients in 1972 and its chair since 1975. Facilitator and spokesperson for the Coalition pour les droits des malades [a patients' rights group]. In recognition of his dogged efforts, despite his disabilities, to defend the rights of patients, senior citizens, the infirm and the forgotten in Quebec institutions.