Excellence in Financial Reporting 2008 – Equal Voice’s - EVE Award 2008 – More Magazine’s - Top 40 over 40 Women in Canada 2009 - CA-Queen's Centre for Governance Voluntary Sector Reporting Award For Excellence in Financial Reporting 2009 – Italian Canadian Chamber of Commerce’ Community Building Award 2010 – Community Service Award – Black Action Defence Committee 2010 – Tropicanna President’s Award 2010 – Herb Carnegie Foundation – Future Aces Lifetime Achievement Award 2010 - CA-Queen's Centre for Governance Voluntary Sector Reporting Award For Excellence in Financial Reporting 2011 – Toronto Community Social Planning Committee – Community Leadership Award 2012 – Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal Federal Politics Lankin was appointed to the Senate on March 18, 2016 on the advice of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She currently sits on the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs and the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Joint Parliamentarians. She previously served on the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples, the Senate Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration, the Senate Committee on Senate Modernization, the Senate Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament and the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence. Lankin has sponsored four bills in the Senate: Bill S-3: An Act to amend the Indian Act in response to the Superior Court of Quebec decision in Descheneaux c. Canada, which amended the Indian Act in response to concerns of sex-based discrimination in the Act. Bill C-210: An Act to amend the National Anthem Act, which made Canada’s national anthem gender neutral. Bill C-375: An Act to amend the Criminal Code (presentence report), which sought to include information on mental health in pre-sentence reports. Bill C-101: An Act to amend the Customs Tariff and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act, which provided greater flexibility to the federal government to address trade surges. Electoral record Provincial record 1996 leadership convention References Notes Citations External links 1954 births 21st-century Canadian politicians 21st-century Canadian women politicians Canadian senators from Ontario Canadian prison officers Women members of the Senate of Canada Independent Canadian senators Independent Senators Group Living people Members of the Executive Council of Ontario Members of the Order of Canada Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Ontario New Democratic Party MPPs Politicians from London, Ontario University of Toronto alumni Women government ministers of Canada Women MPPs in Ontario People from Parry Sound District