[4] She received the SOGIC Ally Award from the Canadian Bar Association's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference in 2003 for her role in Hendricks and Leboeuf v.

[1] Goldwater was a panelist in the 2011 edition of Première Chaîne's Le Combat des livres, advocating for a French translation of David Gilmour's memoir The Film Club,[6] and in the 2012 edition of CBC Radio's Canada Reads, advocating for John Vaillant's book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival.

On the first day of discussions in the English Canada Reads, Goldwater faced criticism after calling Carmen Aguirre "a bloody terrorist", and alleging that Marina Nemat "tells a story that's not true".

"[10] However, The Globe and Mail also noted that Goldwater approached the rest of the week's debates in a more conciliatory and supportive tone,[10] and she ultimately voted for Aguirre's book to win the competition.

[11] In addition, Globe and Mail literary critic John Barber noted that Goldwater's initial statements about the books were essentially impossible to prove or disprove, writing that "both, with their intensely personal, unverifiable narratives, challenge readers to re-imagine the clouded borderland between fact and fiction.