Transgendered Persons Protection Act was given Royal Assent by the then Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Mayann Francis. It added both gender identity and gender expression to the list of things explicitly protected from harassment in the province's Human Rights Act. On January 26, 2013, Kathleen Wynne was elected leader of the Liberal Party of Ontario, and on February 11, 2013, was sworn into office as the 25th Premier of Ontario, becoming the first female and first LGBT first minister in the history of the province. By virtue of her office, Wynne is the highest ranking elected openly LGBT official in the history of North America. On February 28, 2016, CBC News reported that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intended to recommend that a pardon under the authority of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy be granted posthumously to Everett George Klippert, the last person in Canada to be imprisoned for homosexuality. Lawyer and LGBT activist Doug Elliott commented, "It's great that the young Trudeau is finishing the work that his father started." On June 19, 2017 Bill C-16, after having passed the legislative process in the House of Commons and the Senate, became law upon receiving Royal Assent which put it into immediate force. On November 28, 2017 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered an apology to the LGBT community in the House of Commons seeking to acknowledge and right many wrongs- to begin the healing process. Trudeau's broad apology for "state-sponsored, systemic oppression and rejection" included acknowledgement of the suppression of "two-spirit Indigenous values and beliefs" and "abusing the power of the law, and making criminals of citizens". This began the process in which records from those targeted during the Purge (from the 1950s through the 1990s) would be expunged as well as reparations paid to civil servants and military personnel who lost their livelihood from this Cold War–era policy affecting the LGBT community. Oppression extended beyond charging men for same-sex relations years beyond 1969's legalization of such, it includes the homophobic policies which furthered the larger communities homophobia resulting in an even greater social oppression that was detrimental to the well being of this sexual gender minority. See also The ArQuives BC Gay and Lesbian Archives Quebec Gay Archives References External links