Therese Casgrain and Trudeau the Liberals

The Liberals: By Jordan Press The Canadian Press Thu., June 9, 2016 OTTAWA—The name of a Quebec feminist icon which was attached to a national volunteer award first handed out more than 30 years ago under one Trudeau government, was restored Thursday under another Trudeau, according to Toronto Star. The Liberals returned the name of Therese Casgrain to the lifetime volunteer achievement award this year, six years after the previous Conservative government dropped her name from the award. The Liberals returned the name of Therese Casgrain to the lifetime volunteer achievement award this year, six years after the previous Conservative government dropped her name from the award. Casgrain was a campaigner for women voting rights, the first women to lead a Canadian political party and eventually a senator. The Harper government quietly dropped Casgrain name in 2010 and renamed the whole event as the Prime Minister Volunteer Awards. Pierre Trudeau appointed her to the Senate in 1970 and his government created the volunteer award in her name in 1982, one year after her death. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.