About Jacques Hébert (Canadian politician)
Jacques Hébert, was a Canadian author, journalist, publisher, Senator and world traveller who visited more than 130 countries. He served as a journalist for the newspaper Le Devoir from 1951 to 1953 and created the publishing companies Éditions de l'Homme in 1958 and Éditions du Jour in 1961. In 1971, Hébert founded Canada World Youth, an organization that expands "the role of youth in developing their communities and promoting world peace". In 1986, he went on a hunger strike for 21 days to protest a decision by the Progressive Conservative government to end the Katimavik program for Canadian youth, which he created in 1977. He was awarded two honorary doctorates: one from Ryerson University in 1997, and one from the University of Prince Edward Island in 2004.
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