He was also the chair of the International Council of Friendship and Solidarity with Soviet People, operating out of Toronto.
[1] Lucas was born in Vyšná Jablonka in the Carpathian Mountains of eastern Slovakia.
[1] He came to Canada as a child in 1938 to join his father,[1] who had emigrated several years before to work in the nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario, and become a union activist.
He was in Czechoslovakia during the Soviet invasion that ended the Prague Spring and vocally supported Moscow's intervention upon his return to Canada.
He is survived by his wife Helen Lucas, the financial secretary of Canadian Friends of Soviet Peoples and their two children.