Board Member

From 2014-2023, Patrick served on the Board of Directors of Quinte Health  – a network of hospitals in Belleville, Trenton, Picton and Bancroft. He chaired the Board's Quality of Patient Care Committee for three years and the Governance Committee for two years.

Now retired, Patrick spent most of his career leading charitable and philanthropic organizations. He is a former President and CEO of The Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, The Canadian Centre for Philanthropy (now ImagineCanada) and the Canadian Council on Social Development, among others. In addition, he served as senior policy advisor to a former Ontario Premier.

Patrick has had extensive, not-for-profit governance experience having served on numerous Boards including Philanthropic Foundations Canada, Canada World Youth, Lawson Foundation, United Way Canada and the Washington-based Council on Foundations. In addition, he is a former Board Chair of CanadaHelps and CIVICUS, an international NGO based in Johannesburg.

Patrick also authored the 1983 publication, Native Children and the Child Welfare System, considered the seminal, national study of what is now known as the "Sixties Scoop" – the highly disproportionate removal of Indigenous children by provincial child welfare authorities beginning in the 1960s.

Patrick holds an M.S.W.  from the University of Toronto, a B.Ed. from Queen's University and a B.A. from York University.

In 2014, Patrick was appointed to the Order of Canada by former Governor General, David Johnston. ​