Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 14, 1996
• Invested on: February 26, 1997

Through his work with Elections Canada he has earned a worldwide reputation as the top "democracy salesman". He has been called upon to teach the theory and mechanics of Canadian elections to emerging democracies from Bulgaria to El Salvador to Cambodia, representing Canada with honour and integrity. In helping to build a better world community, perhaps his most important mission was as one of five commissioners responsible for setting up the epoch-making free elections in South Africa.