Editing Order of Canada (section)

==Proposed amendments==
At a 2006 conference on Commonwealth honours, Christopher McCreery, an expert on Canada's honours, raised the concern that the three grades of the Order of Canada were insufficient to recognize the nation's very best; one suggestion was to add two more levels to the order, equivalent to knighthoods in British orders. The order of precedence also came under scrutiny, particularly the anomaly that all three grades of the Order of Canada supersede the top levels of each of the other orders (except the Order of Merit), contrary to international practice.<ref>{{Citation| last=Jackson| first=Michael D| title=Honours of the Crown| journal=Canadian Monarchist News| volume=Summer 2007| issue=26| pages=10–11| publisher=Monarchist League of Canada| year=2007| url=http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2007/Summer_2007_CMN.pdf| access-date=11 November 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080625225416/http://www.monarchist.ca/cmn/2007/Summer_2007_CMN.pdf| archive-date=25 June 2008}}</ref>

In June 2010, McCreery suggested reforms to the Order of Canada that would avert the awkwardness around appointing members of the [[Canadian royal family]] as full members of the order: He theorized that the Queen, as the order's Sovereign, could simply appoint, on ministerial advice, anyone as an extra member, or the monarch could issue an ordinance allowing for her relations to be made regular members when approved. Similarly, McCreery proposed that a new division of the order could be established specifically for governors general, their spouses, and members of the royal family,<ref name=McCreery5/> a version of which was adopted in 2013.<ref name=canadianencyclopedia>{{citation| url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/order-of-canada/| title=The Canadian Encyclopedia| work=Order of Canada| publisher=Historica Canada| date=21 March 2016| access-date=3 July 2017| archive-date=23 June 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623161405/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/order-of-canada/| url-status=live}}</ref>