Inside Toronto reports: Pierre Lassonde, co-founder of Franco-Nevada Mining Corp., is donating $25 million to develop York University’s engineering department, which has up to this point been noted as lacking in student body, identity and vision.
“In 20 years, I hope the engineering school will be right up there with the business school,” Lassonde told dozens of guests crammed into the existing computer and engineering building, which will now be known as the Lassonde building. “Education, for me, is absolutely number one in terms of philanthropy. Education is the foundation of democracy.”