Substacks
The Liberal government has launched a project to reduce the overwhelming number of older, English-speaking men who receive Order of Canada medals, Canada’s highest civilian honour.Researchers in the Privy Council Office say the skewed demographic closely mirrors the people who typically submit nominations, that is, older, English-speaking men.And so the project will reach out to underrepresented groups – women, the young, recent immigrants, non-English speakers, some visible-minority groups, among others – to encourage them to submit a more diverse set of candidates as nominees.“Candidates aged 55 or older make up over 85% of all nominations over the last 20 years,”…
© 2025 Politics can Live. All Rights Reserved.