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OTTAWA \u2014 A convicted sex offender and a former engineering executive who was found guilty of corruption have been stripped of their appointments to the Order of Canada, the country\u2019s highest civilian honour.<\/p>\n
Peter Dalglish, a humanitarian worker originally from London, Ont., who founded the charity Street Kids International, was named a member of the Order of Canada in 2016.<\/p>\n
Dalglish was convicted in 2019 of sexually abusing two boys, ages 11 and 14, in Nepal. He had been arrested a year earlier at a mountain home he had built in a village east of the capital of Kathmandu.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was sentenced to nine years and seven years for each count, to be served concurrently.<\/p>\n
He denied any wrongdoing, and his lawyers at the time described the police investigation and trial as a travesty of justice.<\/p>\n
The other man to be stripped of the Order of Canada was Jacques Lamarre, once president and CEO of the company formerly known as SNC-Lavalin.<\/p>\n
Lamarre was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 2005.<\/p>\n
Quebec\u2019s engineering order stripped him of his licence and fined him $75,000 this past January after finding him guilty of corruption last year.<\/p>\n
He had already retired as an engineer and announced in August 2025 that he was resigning as a member of the order. He called a ruling from the regulatory body\u2019s disciplinary council unfair and unreasonable.<\/p>\n
The ruling said the penalties stemmed from breaches during his tenure at the helm of the Montreal-based engineering firm, now known as AtkinsR\u00e9alis Group, between 2001 and 2009.<\/p>\n
The offences included payment of financial benefits to obtain contracts in Libya, with some $2 million going to the family of dictator Moammar Gadhafi.<\/p>\n
A notice recently in the Canada Gazette, the federal government\u2019s official newspaper, said Gov. Gen. Mary Simon signed off on the appointment terminations on April 15.<\/p>\n
\u00a92026 The Canadian Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n