Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 19, 1994
• Invested on: March 01, 1995

This professor of finance and executive-in-residence at UniversitÚ Laval has also been a distinguished soldier, author and politician. A former deputy minister of National Defence, he was the prime architect of the introduction of simultaneous translation of parliamentary debates and of the issue of the first bilingual cheques by the federal government.