page_title: 2012 Canadian honours
section_title: Companions of the Order of Canada
hierarchical_section_title: 2012 Canadian honours / The Order of Canada / Companions of the Order of Canada
caption_attribution_description: DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN04 - Paul Martin, Prime Minister of Canada, delivering a speech during the session 'The Future of Global Interdependence' at the Annual Meeting 2004 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2004. Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org) swiss-image.ch/Photo by Remy Steinegger
context_page_description: The following are the appointments to various Canadian Honours of 2012. Usually, they are announced as part of the New Year and Canada Day celebrations and are published within the Canada Gazette during year. This follows the custom set out within the United Kingdom which publishes its appoints of various British Honours for New Year's and for monarch's official birthday. However, instead of the midyear appointments announced on Victoria Day, the official birthday of the Canadian Monarch, this custom has been transferred with the celebration of Canadian Confederation and the creation of the Order of Canada.
  However, as the Canada Gazette publishes appointment to various orders, decorations and medal, either Canadian or from Commonwealth and foreign states, this article will reference all Canadians so honoured during the 2012 calendar year.
  Provincial Honours are not listed within the Canada Gazette, however they are listed within the various publications of each provincial government. Provincial honours are listed within the page.
  2012 was also the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
context_section_description: The Honourable Ian Corneil Binnie, C.C.
  Natalie Zemon Davis, C.C.
  Yannick Nézet-Séguin, C.C.
  The Right Honourable Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, P.C., C.C.
caption: The Right Honourable Paul Martin, Companion of the Order of Canada
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