Kevin Vickers
Kevin Michael Vickers, ONB, is an ambassador, former Sergeant-at-Arms and former Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. He has been Canada's Ambassador to Ireland since January 19, 2015.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Kevin Vickers
Faith Like a River
By Kevin Vickers
December 16, 2016
It was the aboriginal people of Burnt Church against white society; and there I was, the only guy allowed on the reserve, and I’m in the car praying And again, I always will remember Father Amru, who had taught them and gone out and learned their language and was very apostolic in teaching them about Mass and serving those people in our Christian faith and Holy Communion There was a huge crisis there with regard to the lobster fishery between the Acadian people and the aboriginal people of Burnt Church The people of Burnt Church were expecting [trouble so] they brought in warriors, aboriginal warriors, from different places in the States, and they blocked the highway In the Catholic service, we do readings from the Bible, and then after the readings, we have prayers, intentions of faith, and my mum, always reminding me of my dad’s values in respecting the dignity of people, said a prayer for Cathy Cirillo, Corporal Nathan Cirillo’s mum Many people don’t realize what the Sergeant-at-Arms does, but it’s a huge responsibility I still don’t understand, Father Raymond, why you would invite a poor boy from northern New Brunswick to an audience like this, but from the bottom of my heart, thank you very much. I was quite bitter back then, and I guess I’m still bitter today, that my children followed my wife Ann in the Anglican Church, and now my grandchildren are of that faith Each time I would go into an interrogation room, I always would say to myself, regardless how repulsive the crime, that I’d respect the dignity of the person
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Kevin Vickers' Road to Forgiveness
Kevin Vickers
March 18, 2016
Watch former Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers' full speech from our Faith in Canada 150 launch. He tells us about how lessons learned in childhood led him on a road to forgiveness after the October 2014 shootings in Parliament.
The following is the speech Kevin Vickers gave in November of 2015 during the launch of Faith in Canada 150 at the CBC Headquarters in Toronto ...
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Faith Like a River
Kevin Vickers
January 28, 2016
The hero of 2014's attack on Canada's Parliament, and now our ambassador to Ireland, tells the audience at the launch of our Faith in Canada 150 program how religious belief has shaped his life.
It was the aboriginal people of Burnt Church against white society; and there I was, the only guy allowed on the reserve, and I’m in the car praying And again, I always will remember Father Amru, who had taught them and gone out and learned their language and was very apostolic in teaching them abou...