1974 Fredericton Convocation
Sauvé, Jeanne
Doctor of Science (D.Sc.)
Orator: Condon, Thomas J.
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L to R: Sir Max Aitken, Jeanne Sauvé
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Source: Joe Stone fonds-UA RG340, 1974 (#11528A)
Citation:
CONVOCATION, OCTOBER, 1974
JEANNE SAUVÉ
to be Doctor of Science
Founder of the Féderation des Mouvements de Jeunesse du Quebec, Assistant to the Director of Youth for UNESCO in Paris, an eminent freelance journalist and broadcaster for Radio Canada, officer and member of a variety of national organizations both private and public, Madame Sauvé added incredible breadth and depth to an education that has been both classical and very modern at the University of Ottawa and the University of Paris. She found time as well to study Economics in London, to marry, and to raise a family.
Her interest and involvement in the great issues of the day on which she had been a frequent commentator drew her inevitably towards politics, contesting in the general election of 1972. Her political career has been spectacular. She seems to have wowed the voters, dazzled her political colleagues, and impressed her Prime Minister who has successively made her Minister of State for Science and Technology in the last cabinet and Minister of Environment in the present one.
Her assignments have been major and difficult; those who know her would hardly have expected otherwise. Unafraid to be contentious or outspoken when necessary, she yet manages to find workable solutions amid the complexities that bear upon federal decision-making. Few tasks can be more arduous that her present one for few concerns touch us more immediately that our environment. In the face of dangers in Canada or half-way around the world from air or water pollution, from radioactive fallout, from a flagrant disregard for the balance of nature, there can only be one human stance -- that all men and women are equal in their claims on the earth’s environment. How fortunate we are to have a Minister whose grasp of this is sure, whose life has so solidly reflected this, whose present position symbolizes that in Canada only the best person need apply for there can be no artificial barriers of race, ethnic origins or sex.
The University of New Brunswick takes great pride in honouring today the Honourable Jeanne Sauvé.
Praeses admittit Johannan Sauvé honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Scientia.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
JEANNE SAUVÉ
to be Doctor of Science
Founder of the Féderation des Mouvements de Jeunesse du Quebec, Assistant to the Director of Youth for UNESCO in Paris, an eminent freelance journalist and broadcaster for Radio Canada, officer and member of a variety of national organizations both private and public, Madame Sauvé added incredible breadth and depth to an education that has been both classical and very modern at the University of Ottawa and the University of Paris. She found time as well to study Economics in London, to marry, and to raise a family.
Her interest and involvement in the great issues of the day on which she had been a frequent commentator drew her inevitably towards politics, contesting in the general election of 1972. Her political career has been spectacular. She seems to have wowed the voters, dazzled her political colleagues, and impressed her Prime Minister who has successively made her Minister of State for Science and Technology in the last cabinet and Minister of Environment in the present one.
Her assignments have been major and difficult; those who know her would hardly have expected otherwise. Unafraid to be contentious or outspoken when necessary, she yet manages to find workable solutions amid the complexities that bear upon federal decision-making. Few tasks can be more arduous that her present one for few concerns touch us more immediately that our environment. In the face of dangers in Canada or half-way around the world from air or water pollution, from radioactive fallout, from a flagrant disregard for the balance of nature, there can only be one human stance -- that all men and women are equal in their claims on the earth’s environment. How fortunate we are to have a Minister whose grasp of this is sure, whose life has so solidly reflected this, whose present position symbolizes that in Canada only the best person need apply for there can be no artificial barriers of race, ethnic origins or sex.
The University of New Brunswick takes great pride in honouring today the Honourable Jeanne Sauvé.
Praeses admittit Johannan Sauvé honoris causa ad gradum Doctoris in Scientia.
From: Honoris Causa - UA Case 70, Box 2
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