Osvaldo
Nunez was born in Curico, Chile, in 1938. He obtained a law degree from
the University of Chile, Santiago, in 1964, and received a Master’s Degree
in Industrial Relations from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium,
in 1969. In the early 1970s, he was Executive Director of the Labour Education
Institute, a department of the Minister of Labour under the Chilean government
of Salvador Allende. Mr. Nunez fled his native land, arriving in Montreal
in 1974 with his wife and two sons. Before being elected to the Federal
Parliament of Canada for the Bourassa Riding (Montreal North) as a candidate
of the Bloc Québéçois party, Mr. Nunez was a well-known
member of various Quebec Labour unions for nearly 20 years. This view of
Mr. Nunez was taken in the House of Commons in March 1997 when he was the
Official Opposition Critic for Citizenship and Immigration. A hard worker
for immigrant and refugees rights, Mr. Nunez has made a significant contribution
to Canada and Quebec in the field of international cooperation. [Photo,
courtesy Osvaldo Nunez]