{"id":672771,"date":"2026-05-16T05:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/672771\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:26:16","slug":"convicted-sex-abuser-former-snc-lavalin-ceo-both-stripped-of-order-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/672771\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted sex abuser, former SNC Lavalin CEO both stripped of Order of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/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 on Friday 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

This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

Canadian Press Staff, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

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