Awards Recognize Exceptional Community Leaders
Montreal, September 9, 2016 – The Quebec Community Groups Network (QCGN) is pleased to announce that Montreal jazz legend Oliver Jones, former social worker and community volunteer Miriam Green and Townshippers’ Association president Gerald Cutting will be honoured with the eighth annual Sheila and Victor Goldbloom Distinguished Community Service Award in October. Community advocate Dafina Savic will receive the second annual Young Quebecers Leading the Way Award.
A week before he passed away on Aug. 16, the Goldbloom Awards jury also decided to extend a special honour to federal MP Mauril Bélanger for his lifelong commitment to linguistic duality and his groundbreaking work in empowering the Official Languages Act. Under Bélanger’s leadership, Canadian parliamentarians voted to amend Part VII of the act to oblige federal institutions to take “positive measures” to translate the government’s commitment to promoting linguistic duality and community development into action.
