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Building Bridges (Footprints Series)

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A pediatrician, provincial politician, and pioneer of interfaith dialogue, Victor Goldbloom (b. 1923) has led a wealthy and varied life. Deeply committed to social issues, his dedication to reconciliating French and English, federalists and sovereignists, Christians and Jews, and his working out of public health, the surroundings, and minority communities are unparalleled. Born in Montreal, Goldbloom received his medical degree from McGill University in 1945. A practising pediatrician for a few years, he entered public life in 1962 as a governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec and in 1966 was once elected to the Quebec Legislature. In 1970 he was the first member of Quebec’s Jewish community to serve Within the provincial cabinet, under Premier Robert Bourassa. A minister of the National Assembly until 1979, Goldbloom served as Quebec’s first environment minister, and later as municipal affairs minister and minister accountable for the Olympics Installations Board. Within the early 1990s he was Canada’s Commissioner of Official Languages. In Building Bridges – a selection of personal anecdotes, media coverage of his impressive career, and transcriptions of two historic speeches – Goldbloom recounts the main points of his remarkable life and lifelong commitment to Quebec and to Canada.
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