As some of you may know I was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada, on December 29, 2021. It is a tremendous honour and I am surprised, grateful and humbled by this appointment. I am also very happy and proud although I am very aware that pride precedes a fall and that it is decidedly un- Canadian to seek too much attention. Such are the contradictions of this sort of appointment. Receiving this award carries with it several responsibilities, one of them being to co