Governor General strips two Order of Canada appointees of honours

The Order of Canada. (CTV News)

Gov. Gen. Mary Simon announced Friday she approved the termination of two Order of Canada members after they were found guilty in separate cases.

Peter Dalglish, founder of the charity Street Kids International and brought into the order in 2016, was found guilty in Nepal of sexually assaulting two boys, aged 11 and 14.

Former SNC-Lavalin CEO Jaques Lamarre, who was made a member in 2005,was found guilty of collusion and corruption in relation to the firm’s work in Libya with Saadi Gadhafi, son of former dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Dalglish, originally from London, Ont., was sentenced to a total of 16 years jailtime in a Nepalese court after police raided his home in Nepal where they found the two young boys.

A Nepalese law enforcement official accused Dalglish of luring the boys away from their poor families with things like education, jobs, or trips and then sexually abusing them.

As for Lamarre, who served as CEO for SNC-Lavalin between 2001 and 2009, a Quebec disciplinary council pulled Lamarre’s licence and fined him $75,000 last January for his involvement with the SNC-Lavalin-Libya scandal.

The engineer organization found Lamarre had paid $2 million to the Gadhafi family.

The terminations were announced Friday in the Canada Gazette.

Other expelled order members include National Post founder Conrad Black, singer Buffy Sainte-Marie, and Garth Drabinsky.