Brihmi, Mohammed
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Mohammed Brihmi was appointed on July 29, 2011 as a Justice of the Peace, presiding in Toronto. Mohammed careers span over 30 years, including working for the United Nations, the Provincial government, the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and the College Boreal.
Mr. Brihmi is the first Canadian of North African, Arab and Muslim origin to get elected to public office to chair a School Board. He was elected as a Trustee, Vice Chair and Chair of the Metro Toronto French School Board and was also elected as a member of the Metropolitan Toronto School Board, the largest school board in Canada. Mohammed has chaired several community organizations and served on the Boards of Directors of many institutions such as the Toronto Foundation for Students Success, the Moroccan Association of Toronto, the Scarborough Community Care Access Centre, The Canadian Arab Network, the Learning Partnership, the French Committee of the City of Toronto and the French Advisory Committee of the Metro Toronto Police.
He was appointed by the Ontario government to the Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism and Citizenship and for three terms to the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, where he served on the Discipline Committee for four years and was elected twice to the Executive Committee. Mr. Brihmi has also served on the Selection Committee for the Lincoln M. Alexander Award for Leadership in Eliminating Racism of the Ministry of Immigration and Citizenship, as well as the Founding President of l’Association interculturelle franco-ontarienne, an umbrella organization for ethnic and racial minority Francophones of Ontario. He is the recipient of several distinctions following many years of volunteer commitments.
See also: Vérité et réconciliation (documentary)
Last Update : 2014-02-10
