Tommy Kulczyk’s wife and two daughters figure it will last a year. They have their doubts about him retiring next month as he has pledged, believing he’ll be back on the job soon after.

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They’re probably right. Kulczyk is a force of nature, a human dynamo who doesn’t know how to slow down. For the last 45 years, he has left his mark on our social landscape like few others.

Kulczyk spent 35 years at the head of Sun Youth, overseeing emergency aid programs and responses to natural disasters and providing food, clothing and shelter to the city’s disadvantaged.

Since 2019, he has served as president and CEO of the Breakfast Club of Canada, where he has seen the program grow in providing meals for children across the country, going from distributing 243,000 to more than 890,000.

Kulczyk also served as chair of Quebec’s Advisory Committee on the Fight Against Poverty and Social Exclusion from 2006 to 2009. And he was Montreal’s first commissioner for children from 2016 to 2019, helping to implement the city’s child policy.

On Nov. 5, Quebec’s National Assembly paid tribute to Kulczyk’s impressive 45-year career in the........

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