Another Order of Canada sent back
September 12, 2008
Looks like fallout from the decision to award Henry Morgentaler the Order of Canada is still floating lazily down from the sky. Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, of Montreal, returned his Order of Canada
after seeing dashed his hopes that, “in light of the large number of protests, the Consultative Council for the Order of Canada would revise its decision.”
I suppose the Cardinal was justified in hoping that sanity might prevail, and that this controversial and disgusting decision might be reversed. Evidently, the Cardinal forgot that the decision was made by Canada’s “betters,” who likely viewed the explosion of protest as confirmation that they had made a good decision. Still, the Cardinal’s was a charitable assumption.
At any rate: good on him.
