April 17th is Equality Day! In 1985 when Canada targeted Indigenous mothers and their babies Lynn stood up; learned how to read; write; complete oral family research; and conduct archival research. Thirty years later, with lawyers from Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto and the Law Office of Mary Eberts, she was finally successful at defeating Indian and Northern Affairs Canada's unstated paternity policy that denied Indigenous babies their treaty rights when a father's signature was not on their birth certificate. Disturbingly, this policy assumption applied in situations where young woman did not even have legal ability to consent to sex. How could Canada do this she thought? In honour of Lynn's greater than three decades of miserable work, on April 17th, 2018 Senator Marilou McPhedran will introduce Lynn to the Senate Chamber; and later on that same day she will be honoured during the Famous Six Celebrations in Parliament's Aboriginal Peoples Room along with Senator Sandra Lovelace, Senator Lillian Dyck, Dr Sharon McIvor, Jeannette Corbiere-Lavell, and Yvonne Bedard. (They are her shereos.) https://www.eventbrite.com/e/famous-six-celebration-celebrons-les-celebres-six-tickets-44800108330?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=esfb&utm-source=fb&utm-term=listing