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Canadian Sikh stripped of honor
WSN Network

TORONTO: T. Sher Singh, a prominent member of Canada's Sikh community and a writer, has been stripped of his Order of Canada after he was found guilty in 2007 of professional misconduct and disbarred by the Law Society of Upper Canada.

In a note on the website sikhchic.com, T Sher Singh said he always felt the Order of Canada was honouring the work of many people, not just himself and left it to the community to judge him. Reports said the order to take back the award was signed in December and notice was quietly given in the government's Canada Gazette on March 28 but it seems T Sher Singh came to know only this week. The writer, a former contributor to the Toronto Star, was awarded the Order of Canada in 2002 for being "an advocate for the importance of positive race relations."

"I know it will deeply distress a lot of people and that is my only disappointment -- that my failures are going to now cause some distress to others," he said.

8 April 2009
 

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