Officer of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 27, 2020
• Invested on: December 14, 2022

Antony David John Penikett, O.C.
Vancouver, British Columbia

Tony Penikett is a champion of social democracy, cultural accommodation and racial reconciliation. A former premier of Yukon, he and his government legislated the Yukon Human Rights Act and helped negotiate Canada’s first third-order Aboriginal Self-Government Agreements. In his retirement, he served as a negotiator, mediator and writer on Arctic and Indigenous issues. He has also mentored graduate students and young northerners as a professor of public policy and treaty negotiations at Simon Fraser and Queen’s universities, and at the University of Washington.