The IABC Canada Master Communicator Award (MC) is a lifetime achievement award and is the highest honor IABC Canada can bestow on an individual member. The Award recognizes up to two outstanding Canadian communicators each year whose work has brought credit to IABC, the profession, and the organizations they have worked for or with, and whose contributions have raised the standards of organizational communication in Canada.

Master Communicator selection criteria include all of the following: Contribution to the organizational communication field and profession; career achievement; authorship, speaking and lecturing; contributions to IABC; and other professional recognition such as community activities and other business-related activities.