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There could be no more apt description of Victor Goldbloom’s life than the title of his recent book, Building Bridges.

A pediatrician and politician, a Jew who was honoured by the Catholic Church for his efforts to build interfaith dialogue and an anglophone with deep roots in francophone Quebec, Goldbloom was the quintessential Montrealer, Quebecer and Canadian.

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He died of a heart attack Monday night at age 92.

Despite his age, Goldbloom was in good health and still active in public life right up until his death.

Graham Fraser, Canada’s Commissioner of Official Languages – a post Goldbloom held from 1991-99 – noted that Goldbloom had been scheduled to speak before an upcoming National Assembly committee on the reorganization of Quebec school boards.

“It’s rare with somebody at 92 that you have the sense that we are losing someone who is still in total mastery of his powers and still has the capacity to influence anybody who hears him,” Fraser said.