[2] Lank holds both a master's and doctorate in sociology from the University of Toronto.
From 2015 to 2018, Lank served as Principal Clerk of the Senate Chamber Operations and Procedure Office.
[2] In 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of Lank as the Parliamentary Librarian for the Library of Parliament.
[1][3] In early 2020, Lank recommended that poems by Stephen Brown be removed from the parliamentary poet laureate website.
The poet was convicted of manslaughter in 1995 after killing an Indigenous woman, Pamela George.