Vets, MPs Call on Feds to Launch Honour Review Board to Award Canadian Victoria Cross

Former chief of defence staff General Rick Hillier (L) and Conservative MP for Conservative MP for Airdrie-Cochrane Blake Richards look on as Valour in the Presence of the Enemy founder Bruce Moncur speaks during a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on April 15, 2026. The Canadian Press/Adrian WyldThe federal government is facing mounting calls to establish a military honours review board, and to finally award Canada’s highest military honour.The Canadian Victoria Cross was established in 1993 to recognize acts of valour, self-sacrifice, or devotion to duty in the presence of the enemy, but it has never been awarded.