Co-op enthusiast and Vaudreuil-Dorion resident Colette Lebel has written a book, Plaidoyer pour la coopération, which has just been published by Fides. It hit bookstores on August 28.

In an interview with Néomédia, Colette Lebel is certain that "the cooperative offers educational values that are dear to young entrepreneurs". Unfortunately, she points out, "according to a recent survey of young people, the cooperative movement is still little known among them".

And yet, in a world that has become highly competitive, she stresses: "The cooperative offers something different, a mutualisation, the creation of links, less waste of energy in competition, values and principles of action that resonate with young people, such as inclusion, sustainable development and democracy."

Her book to be launched in public before the official start of the Gala de l'Ordre du mérite coopératif et mutualiste québécois, at around 4 p.m. on October 19 at the Lévis Convention Centre. Gala activities begin at 5 p.m., with the cocktail reception.

Fides describes her book as follows: "This book brings together a selection of posts that set out chronological milestones in Colette Lebel's reflections on cooperative enterprise, and then on cooperation. Reflections that would ultimately lead her to argue that a more widely adopted cooperative posture would be highly beneficial for the future of humanity."

Colette Lebel worked for 28 years at La Coopérative fédérée, now Sollio Groupe Coopératif, as an advisor and then Director of Cooperative Affairs. For the past two years, she has been working part-time in cooperative writing and training. Here's her Linkedin link: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colette-lebel-4a487765/.

Colette Lebel holds a bachelor's degree in agronomy from Université Laval and a post-graduate diploma in cooperative and complex learning from Université de Sherbrooke.