FP Canada announced on Nov. 18 that Jocelyne Houle-LeSarge and Gilles Sinclair have been selected as the 2019 FP Canada Fellow recipients.

The distinction was created in 2011 to recognize those who have made significant contributions to furthering FP Canada’s mandate to advance professional financial planning in Canada.

“Jocelyne and Gilles have each made outstanding contributions to the financial planning profession in Canada,” said Cary List, president and CEO of FP Canada. “We are delighted to recognize their many accomplishments by presenting them with this well-deserved honour.”

Houle-LeSarge, president, CEO and secretary of the Institut québécois de planification financière (IQFP), has played a key role on numerous joint projects between IQFP and FP Canada, such as the establishment of a partnership between the two organizations to work towards harmonizing standards and creating a unified Canada-wide financial planning profession.

Sinclair was on the board of directors for FP Canada’s predecessor, Financial Planning Standards Council (FPSC). He also served as chair of the Quebec regulator Chambre de la sécurité financière and IQFP’s boards of directors. He helped create a Mutual Recognition Agreement that simplified the process for CFP professionals to practice in Quebec and for financial planners in Quebec to practice in the rest of Canada. He also contributed to the development of the Canadian Financial Planning Definitions, Standards and Competencies, which provided financial planning definitions and professional financial planning standards.