Tuesday, May 10, 2011

J. Patrick Boyer, Publisher

Patrick has worked as a typesetter, pressman, bookbinder, print journalist, television host, lawyer, university professor, member of parliament, and parliamentary secretary for foreign affairs in the Government of Canada. He has chaired parliamentary committees on equality rights, the status of disabled persons, and electoral reform. His work for democratic development takes place in Canada and around the world from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam to Bulgaria and Ukraine and Iraq. Patrick has chaired a number of public policy organizations, from the Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs to the Pugwash Park Commission in Nova Scotia dealing with nuclear disarmament. Following his wife's death in 1995, he founded the Corinne Boyer Fund for Ovarian Cancer Research and Treatment which today is the National Ovarian Cancer Association operating across Canada. Patrick is publisher of Blue Butterfly Books and Muskoka Books. http://www.muskokabooks.ca/

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