Activism
Wallace was a prominent activist in the anti-Apartheid and peace movements and has worked with two Nobel Peace Prize winners, Nelson Mandela and Rigoberta Menchu, on international human rights causes, and with Ralph Nader founding the Quebec Public Interest Research Group in the 1980s. He is currently active in issues around refugee advocacy, children's rights, food security, organic gardening and urban agriculture, affordable housing, environmental and social justice education, child poverty, and international human rights. He continues to promote the International Victory Gardens Network ("Plant a Victory Garden, help win the war against hunger") that he started in 2001, helping to bring urban agriculture and food security to marginalized and socially isolated communities throughout the world in the spirit of the World War II victory gardens which helped the Allies win the war. In 2009, he won the David Suzuki Foundation's "David Suzuki Digs My Garden" contest for best organic ornamental garden in Canada. He is also Parliamentary Liaison of the Drop the Fee Campaign, aiming to eliminate the Refugee Processing Fee that serves as a barrier to countless immigrants and refugees in Canada.
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