Ralph Goodale given President's Community Award

Posted: January 17, 2014 9:20 a.m.

(R to L) University of Regina President Vianne Timmons and Wascana MP Ralph Goodale. Photo: U of R Photography

Ralph Goodale has come a long way since he began his post-secondary studies at the Regina campus of the University of Saskatchewan in the late 1960s. Goodale grew up on the family farm near Wilcox. He earned a BA in Regina in 1971, and earned a law degree from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1972.

He was first elected to the Parliament of Canada in 1974 at the age of 24. He later served as leader of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party, and returned to the House of Commons in 1993, where he held a number of cabinet positions, including finance. He’s the Member of Parliament for the Wascana constituency, which includes the University of Regina, and is Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Now Goodale has been presented with the University of Regina’s fourth annual President’s Community Award – an award program created in 2010 to recognize those who have a strong history of working to better the lives of others in Saskatchewan.

Previous recipients of the President’s Community Award are Pat Fiacco, CEO of Tourism Saskatchewan and former Mayor of Regina; former Prince Albert Mayor Jim Scarrow; and the RCMP “Depot” Division.