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Latest revision as of 21:08, 28 December 2023
Contents
Country
Canada
Birth - Death
Occupation
Activist, Business
Notable Achievements
Order of Canada
Description
Regional Manager, LGBTQ2+ Business Development, TD Canada Trust. founders of Fierté au travail Canada/Pride at Work Canada and a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces. She was one of the initiators of the class action filed in 2017 against the Federal Government concerning the LGBT Purge undertaken in the years 1950 to 1990, in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the federal Public Service, while they identified, questioned, searched and dismissed people suspected of being from the LGBT community. Was dismissed from the Canadian Armed Forces for her homosexuality at the age of 19. She is a survivor of the “LGBT Purge”. A member of the community bringing a class action lawsuit against the Canadian government that ended in a federal apology from the prime minister in 2017. She is President of the LGBT Purge Fund. President of the Fondation Émergence until 2015. Commissioner member of the Commission on Human Rights and Youth Rights. Worked for 20 years at IBM, where she held positions as the Critical Resolution Coordinator and Account Manager. In 2017, she was awarded the Medal of the National Assembly of Quebec. In 2023, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.