Alan Borovoy

Lawyer, author and civil libertarian Alan Borovoy is one of Canada’s most vociferous defenders of human rights. For more than four decades, he acted as general counsel and chief spokesperson for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Borovoy has been a visiting professor at Dalhousie, Toronto, Windsor and York universities and currently holds four honorary doctorates. He has been recognized with the Award for the Advancement of Intellectual Freedom in Canada and an inscription in the Honour Roll of the Aboriginal People's Treaty Number 3.