Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: October 18, 2001
• Invested on: October 26, 2002

He is a defender and a promoter of freedom and justice. An authority on Human Rights and Professor of Law at the University of Alberta, he is a founding member of the Board of Directors and now President of the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights. He has provided leadership to countless professional, social action and religious organizations, as well as to governments at the provincial, federal and international levels. One of the key organizers of the 1998 International Conference on Universal Rights and Human Values, he is recognized and respected as a man of action who champions with great passion these issues of world concern.