Dutoit could lose Order; new recipients named
Montreal’s executive committee has approved this year’s recipients of the Order of Montreal.
They include medical researcher Michel Chrétien, Olympic leader Richard Pound and Louise Roy, who in the 1980s and 1990s headed what is now the Société de transport de Montréal.
The city is also taking steps to strip Charles Dutoit, former artistic director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (OSM), of the Order of Montreal.
In February, Mayor Valérie Plante asked the body responsible for administering the Order of Montreal to look into how to do so.
Dutoit stepped down in January as artistic director and principal conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, based in London, after several women came forward alleging they were victims of sexual misconduct by him.
Dutoit was named a Great Montrealer in 1982 and was given the title of commander of the Order of Montreal in 2016.
Here is the complete list of new honourees:
COMMANDERS
■ Michel Chrétien, medical researcher
■ Richard Pound, lawyer, Olympic official, spokesperson on sports ethics
■ Louise Roy, chancellor of the Université de Montréal ■
OFFICERS
■ Joséphine Bacon, Innu poet
■ Angèle Dubeau, violinist
■ Marisa Ferretti Barth, former senator
■ Ratna Ghosh, education professor at McGill University
■ Jacques Girard, actor
■ Morton Minc, judge
CHEVALIERS
■ Pascal Assathiany, publisher
■ Sabariah Binti Hussein, volunteer
■ Anik Bissonnette, dancer
■ Doudou Boicel, impresario
■ Nathalie Bondil, director of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
■ Victor Pilon and Michel Lemieux, artists
■ Louis Vachon, banker
■ Jonathan Wener, developer