Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: June 20, 1983
• Invested on: August 27, 1983

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.