Join us to celebrate 11 Years of Canadian Corporate Citizenship, featuring a special tribute to Avrim Lazar (Former President and CEO, Forest Products Association of Canada) who will receive the Corporate Knights Award of Distinction for his courage, vision and relentless bridge-building to make Canada a global leader in sustainable forestry.
The Date
Thursday, June 7th, 2012
The Location
CORUS QUAY, 25 Dockside Drive, Toronto
CORUS QUAY building, built in 2010, is home to a five-storey-high bio-filter ‘living wall’ for air filtration, as well as a green roof with energy efficient lighting. The building is LEED gold certified. The state of the art building features a significantly reduced power signature, is equipped with low-flow water fixtures, and re-uses rainwater to reduce water consumption.
The Program
Gala MC: Andreas Souvaliotis, President Air Miles for Social Change
6:00 – 7:00 pm: Bayfront Cocktails on Toronto’s Water’s Edge
7:00 – 9:00 pm: Dinner Celebration
9:00 pm: Dancing
Attire: Cocktail
To Book a Table
Tickets: Individual $500 | Tables of Eight $3500
Ticket sales open March 20th, 2012. Call 416.203.4674 x226
Purchase your table or ticket now.
The Corporate Knights Award of Distinction: Avrim Lazar
The 2012 Gala Dinner will celebrate the top corporate citizens in Canada, as well as the Corporate Knights Award of Distinction winner, Avrim Lazar. As Canada’s chief lumberjack for the past decade, Avrim played an instrumental role reinventing our forestry industry to be at the forefront of sustainable resource management and the bio-based economy. Avrim led the unprecedented collaboration between civil society and industryin forging the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, the largest conservation agreement in the world. It has committed Canadian industry to the highest environmental standards of forest management within an area twice the size of Germany.