• Awarded on: December 4, 2003

Keith Watson, Kingston, Ontario
Governor General's Caring Canadian Award

For the last twelve years, Keith Watson has worked tirelessly to raise money for various charities to benefit children and youth in his city and his province. He developed the concept of an Ontario Provincial Police summer youth camp and both founded and chaired a fundraising drive to raise money for a scholarship in the name of a local murder victim. He coordinates the International Law Enforcement Seminar, from which proceeds are distributed to the OPP Kids Summer Camp, the Military Blind Children's Fund and the Children's Cancer Clinic at Kingston General Hospital, among others. Mr. Watson has touched many lives and made his community a better place to live.