Member of the Order of Canada
Awarded on: 2000-04-27
Invested on: 2001-02-28
Professor and the first female Dean of the Faculty of Education at McGill University, she is a leading authority on multicultural and international education. An outstanding administrator, she is also an award-winning scholar whose area of research is vital to the development of a strife-free culturally-diverse society. Her exceptional work is widely consulted by national organizations and has had an important impact on teacher training and on the formulation of teaching policies in Canada and abroad.