Meritorious Service Medal

• Awarded on: May 3, 2021
• Invested on: March 21, 2024

Father Pierre Labine, M.S.M.
Montréal, Quebec

For over 20 years, Father Pierre Labine has been providing humanitarian optometry services in over a dozen developing countries. He has taken part in some 70 humanitarian missions in which over 500 000 pairs of glasses have been distributed to populations in need. In 2005, he founded the Quebec chapter of Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity International which, in partnership with universities, gives hundreds of optometry students each year the opportunity to take part in missions and gain skills that will make them globally minded professionals.