MorgentalerI’d like to offer heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Henry Morgentaler for being awarded the Order of Canada. It is long overdue. It is largely due to Dr. Morgentaler that I grew up in a country where access to abortion was never something I worried about or questioned.

The Order of Canada is bestowed by an advisory council lead by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. I would also like to take this opportunity to honour a wonderfully bad-ass Canadian woman, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. Not only did she usher in Dr. Morgentaler’s award, she is a born Albertan and has performed the duties of a Governor General that included giving royal assent to legalizing same-sex marriage in Canada. Bad-ass.