The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission has appointed two new commissioners to its ranks.
Colleen Cameron and Heather Kuttai have been appointed to join the commission with a five-year appointment made through an order-in-council Feb. 5.
Cameron has policy-making, strategic planning and communications experience in the telecommunications sector and is active in the health care and aboriginal communities. She is a member of Beardy’s Okemasis First Nation and resides in Saskatoon.
Kuttai is a three-time paralympic medal-winning athlete who has a background as an author and writer with a focus on disability issues, as well as background in disability policy development and education administration.
They join the current commission members which include chief commissioner David Arnot, Paul Favel Q.C., Janice Gitlin, Barry Wilcox Q.C. and Nasser Malik.
In a statement Arnot welcomed the new appointments.
“Ms. Cameron and Ms. Kuttai demonstrate the value of citizen leadership, and the importance of acting on our civic responsibility, in our communities and in our province,” said Arnot. “I look forward to working with these new Commissioners as the SHRC moves into the next phase of its new mandate.”
