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Advisory Council

DENIS STAIRS - CHAIR

Currently Professor Emeritus in Political Science and a Faculty Fellow in the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie, Dr. Denis Stairs attended Dalhousie, Oxford and the University of Toronto.  A former President of the Canadian Political Science Association and a member for six years of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, he was the founding Director of Dalhousie’s Centre for Foreign Policy Studies from 1970 to 1975. 

He served as Chair of his Department from 1980 to 1985 and as Dalhousie’s Vice-President (Academic and Research) from 1988 to 1993.  A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Board of Directors of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, he specializes in Canadian foreign and defence policy, Canada-US Relations and similar subjects.

 

PERRIN BEATTY

Perrin Beatty was first elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in 1972. During his 21 years in Parliament, he served as Minister in seven different portfolios, including Treasury Board, National Revenue, Solicitor General, Defence, National Health and Welfare, Communications and External Affairs. Following the 1993 election, he joined a number of corporate boards and worked as a consultant and columnist. In 1995, Prime Minister Chrétien appointed him President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). After leaving the CBC in August, 2005, he served as President and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters for seven years before becoming President and CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. In 2008, Mr. Beatty became Chancellor of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

 

JOCELYN COULON

Jocelyn Coulon is the Director of the Peace Operations Research Network. He is also a member of the Research Group in International Security (REGIS) at the Université de Montréal's Centre for International Research and Studies (CÉRIUM) since 2004. He writes a column on international politics for the Montreal daily La Presse.
 

Previously, he was director of the Montreal campus of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre from February 1999 to December 2003. He was a member of the PPC board of directors from 2004 to 2007. He is a member of the IDRC board of governors.
 

In the past few years, he has published a number of books, including, in 1998, Soldiers of Diplomacy. The United Nations, Peacekeeping, and The New World Order, University of Toronto Press, and in 2005, Guide du maintien de la paix 2006 and L'agression: Les États-Unis, l'Irak et le monde, both published by Athéna Éditions.

He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
 

BOB FOWLER

During his 38 year Public Service career, Bob Fowler was the Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Ministers Trudeau, Turner and Mulroney, Deputy Minister of National Defence, Canada’s longest serving Ambassador to the United Nations (where he represented Canada on the Security Council in 1999 and 2000 and issued 2 ground-breaking reports on sanctions-busting in Angola, which cut off UNITA’s access to the arms bazaar and led to the end of the civil war which had ravished Angola for 25 years). He was Ambassador to Italy and the 3 Rome-Based UN Food Agencies, Sherpa for the Kananaskis G8 Summit (for which he chaired the creation of the Africa Action Plan), and the Personal Representative for Africa of Prime Ministers Chrétien, Martin and Harper. Mr. Fowler retired from the Federal Public Service in the fall of 2006, and is now a Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

 

In July 2008, The Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, appointed Mr. Fowler to be his Special Envoy to Niger, with the rank of Under-Secretary-General in the Secretariat of the UN.

 

While acquitting his UN mission, Mr. Fowler and his colleague, Louis Guay, were captured by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) on 14 December 2008, and held hostage in the Sahara Desert for 130 days.
 

JACK GRANATSTEIN

Jack Lawrence Granatstein was born in Toronto on 21 May 1939.  He attended Toronto public schools, Le Collège militaire royal de St-Jean (Grad. Dipl., 1959), the Royal Military College, Kingston (B.A., 1961), the University of Toronto (M.A., 1962), and Duke University (Ph.D., 1966). He served in the Canadian Army (1956-66), then joined the History Department at York University, Toronto (1966-95) where, after taking early retirement, he is Distinguished Research Professor of History Emeritus. Granatstein has also taught at the University of Western Ontario and the Royal Military College. He was the Rowell Jackman Fellow at the Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1996-2000) and was a member of the Royal Military College of Canada Board of Governors (1997-2005). From 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2000, he was the Director and CEO of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. He was then Special Adviser to the Director of the Museum (2000-01), a member of the Canadian War Museum Committee (2001-06), and chair of the Museum’s Advisory Council (2001-06). He is now a member of the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of Civilization (2006- ), a member of its Executive and Development Committees (2009- ), and is chair of the Board’s Canadian War Museum Advisory Committee (2007- ). The government re-appointed him to the Board of Trustees for a second three-year term.
 

Granatstein has been an Officer of the Order of Canada since 1996. He held the Canada Council's Killam senior fellowship twice (1982-84, 1991-93), was the editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1981-84), and was a founder of the Organization for the History of Canada which gave him its first National History Award in 2006. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 1982 and in 1992 was awarded the Society’s J.B. Tyrrell Historical Gold Medal "for outstanding work in the history of Canada." His book, The Generals (1993), won the J.W. Dafoe Prize and the UBC Medal for Canadian Biography. Canada’s National History Society named him the winner of the Pierre Berton Award for popular history (2004), and the Canadian Authors Association gave him its Lela Common Award for Canadian History in 2006. In 2008, the Conference of Defence Associations awarded him its 75th Anniversary Book Prize as “the author deemed to have made the most significant positive contribution to the general public’s understanding of Canadian foreign policy, national security and defence during the past quarter century.”


He has honorary doctorates from Memorial University of Newfoundland (1993), the University of Calgary (1994), Ryerson Polytechnic University (1999), the University of Western Ontario (2000), McMaster University (2000), Niagara University (2004), and the Royal Military College of Canada (2007).  He is a senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto (2000- ). The Conference of Defence Associations Institute presented him the Vimy Award “for achievement and effort in the field of Canadian defence and security” (1996), and he was a Director of the CDAI and a member of its Executive Committee (2005-09). In 2007, he received the General Sir Arthur Currie Award from the Military Museums Society of Calgary, and he was named honorary historian of the Royal Canadian Military Institute.


In 1995 he served as one of three commissioners on the Special Commission on the Restructuring of the [Canadian Forces] Reserves (chaired by the Rt. Hon. Brian Dickson, former Chief Justice of Canada), and in 1997 he advised the Minister of National Defence on the future of the Canadian Forces.  He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Dominion Institute, is a national fellow of the University of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (1997- ), is on the Research Advisory Board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (2010- ), and was Chair of the Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century (2001-5) for which he wrote a monthly column (2006-07). He is a Senior Research Fellow (2008- ) and was a Board of Directors member (2004-10) and Chair of the Advisory Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (2001-08). He writes a monthly newspaper column for CDFAI (2008- ). 


Granatstein writes on 20th Century Canadian national history--the military, defence and foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the public service, and politics.  He comments regularly on historical questions, defence, and public affairs in the press and on radio and television; he provided the historical commentary for CBC-TV's coverage of the 50th, 60th,  and 65th anniversaries of D-Day (1994, 2004, 2009), V-E Day (1995, 2005), V-J Day (1995), and the 90th anniversary of Vimy Ridge (2007); and he speaks frequently here and abroad. He has been a historical consultant on many films, including “Canada’s War” (Yap Films, 2004), and he wrote for the National Film Board’s projects to put Canadian Great and Second World War film footage on-line. He wrote a regular book review column for Legion magazine (2006-09) and for On Track (2006-08), and he was the historical consultant for the Ontario Veterans Memorial (2005-06) and the Gardiner Museum’s Battle of Britain exhibit (2006).       


Granatstein’s many scholarly and popular books include The Politics of Survival: The Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967, 1970), Peacekeeping: International Challenge and Canadian Response (1968), Canadian Foreign Policy Since 1945 (1969, 1970, 1973), Forum: Canadian Life and Letters 1920-1970 (1972), Canada's War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939-45 (1975, 1990), Ties that Bind: Canadian-American Relations in Wartime (1975), Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (1977, 1985), American Dollars/Canadian Prosperity (1978), A Man of Influence: Norman Robertson and Canadian Statecraft (1981), The Gouzenko Transcripts (1982), The Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-57 (1982, 1998), Twentieth Century Canada (1983, 1986, 1989),  Bloody Victory: Canadians and the D-Day Campaign (1984, 1994), The Great Brain Robbery: Canada's Universities on the Road to Ruin (1984), Sacred Trust: Brian Mulroney and the Conservative Party in Power (1985),  Canada 1957-1967: The Years of Uncertainty and Innovation (1986), The Collins Dictionary of Canadian History (1986), How Britain's Weakness Forced Canada into the Arms of the United States (1989),  Marching to Armageddon: Canadians and the Great War (1989), A Nation Forged in Fire: Canadians and the Second World War (1989), Pirouette: Pierre Trudeau and Canadian Foreign Policy (1990,1991) Spy Wars: Canada and Espionage from Gouzenko to Glasnost (1990, 1992), Mutual Hostages: Canadians and Japanese in World War II (1990; Japanese ed., 1994), For Better or For Worse: Canada and the United States to the 1990s (1991, 1992, 2007), War and  Peacekeeping: From South Africa to the Gulf--Canada's Limited Wars (1991),  English Canada Speaks Out (1991), Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992, 1994), The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War (1993, 1995, 2005), Empire to Umpire: Canadian Foreign Policy to the 1990s (1994; rev. ed., 2007), Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace (1995),  The Good Fight: Canadians and World War II (1995), Yankee Go Home? Canadians and Anti-Americanism (1996, 1997), Petrified Campus: Canada’s Universities in Crisis (1997, 1998), The Canadian 100: The Hundred Most Influential Canadians of the Twentieth Century (1997, 1998),  The Veterans Charter and Post-World War II Canada (1998, 1999), Who Killed Canadian History? (1998, 1999, rev. ed., 2007),  Trudeau’s Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Pierre Trudeau (1998, 1999), Prime Ministers: Rating the Prime Ministers (1999, 2000), Our Century: The Canadian Journey (2000, 2001), Canada’s Army: Waging War and Keeping the Peace (2002, 2004), First Drafts: Eyewitness Accounts from Canada’s Past (2003, 2004), Canada and the Two World Wars (2003), The Importance of Being Less Earnest: Promoting Canada’s National Interests through Tighter Ties with the U.S. (2003), Who Killed the Canadian Military? (2004; paper ed., 2004, 2008), Hell’s Corner: An Illustrated History of Canada’s Great War (2004), Battle Lines: First Person Military Accounts from Our Past (2004), The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada in the Second World War, 1939-1945 (2005),
The Special Commission on the Restructuring of  the Reserves, 1995: Ten Years Later (2005), The Land Newly Found: Eyewitness  Accounts of the Canadian Immigration Experience (2006),  Whose War Is It? How Canada Can Survive in the Post-9/11 World (2007, 2008), and A Threatened Future: Canada’s Future Strategic Environment and Its Security Implications (2007). He is now preparing (with Dean Oliver) The Companion to Canadian Military History (Oxford University Press/Canadian War Museum, 2010).

Granatstein is married and lives in Toronto.
 

PETER HARDER

In March 2007, Peter Harder joined the law firm of Fraser Milner Casgrain as Senior Policy Advisor.  He is a member of a number of private sector boards and is the President of the Canada-China Business Council.

Mr. Harder is a former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and assumed the responsibilities of the Personal Representative of the Prime Minister to the G8 in December 2003.  He was first appointed Deputy Minister in 1991 and had served in that capacity in a number of departments including Treasury Board, Solicitor General, Citizenship and Immigration and Industry Canada.  Mr. Harder first joined the Canadian Foreign Service in 1977.

In 2002, he was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Award.  In 2000, the Governor General presented Mr. Harder with the Prime Minister’s Outstanding Achievement Award for public service leadership.  

Mr. Harder was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1952 and was raised in Vineland, Ontario.  He has a BA (Honours) in Political Science from the University of Waterloo, a MA from Queen’s University and an LLD, honoris causa, from the University Waterloo, 2005.

 

DAN HAYS

Dan Hays has been a member of the Macleod Dixon law firm since his call to the Bar in 1966.  He is the current Chair of the firm and has been active in different practice areas, most recently in corporate commercial and international operations.  He was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Prime Minister Trudeau in 1984 and retired from the Senate in 2007.

During his years of service in the Senate, Dan held a number of leadership positions and at different times served as chair of the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, the Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources and the Special Committee on Senate Reform 2006.

As well, he served as President of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1994 to 1998.  In 1999 he was appointed Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, and in 2001, Prime Minister Chrétien appointed him Speaker of the Senate, a position he continued to hold under Prime Minister Martin. Following the 2006 federal general election, he was appointed Leader of the Opposition in the Senate.  On January 22, 2007, he was made a Privy Councillor by Prime Minister Harper.

Dan Hays is proud to serve as an Honourary Colonel of the King's Own Calgary Regiment.  He is also honoured to have received from the Emperor of Japan the Grand Cordon of the Sacred Treasure for his work in promoting the Canada/Japan bi-lateral relationship, and to have been appointed Grand Officier of l'Ordre de la Pleiade on the recommendation of l'Association parlementaire de la francophonie.  He is a graduate of the University of Alberta, B.A. 1962 and the University of Toronto, LLB 1965.

Recent Publications 

  • Updating Some Antiquated Constitutional Provisions Relating to the Senate, Canadian Parliamentary Review, Spring, 2009.

  • Reviving Conference Committees, Canadian Parliamentary Review, Autumn, 2009.

  • A New Senate for Canada: A Two-Step Process for Moving Forward on Senate Reform, Canada West Foundation, September, 2008.

  • Renewing the Senate of Canada: A Two-Phase Proposal, May, 2007.

  • The Modern Senate of Canada: A Study in Functional Adaptability, June, 2004.

GENERAL (RET'D) RAYMOND HENAULT, CMM, MSC, CD

General Ray Henault was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1949. He enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1968.

 

General Henault served his early tours as a pilot and flight instructor, accumulating over 4,500 flying hours mostly on the T-33 Silver Star, CF-101 Voodoo, and Twin Huey and Kiowa helicopters. In addition to flying, he served as an air traffic controller, an aviation staff officer in a brigade headquarters, and as Project Director in Ottawa for the replacement of tactical light helicopters. From 1987 to 1989 he was the Commanding Officer of 444 Tactical Helicopter Squadron, a unit of 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB)  in Lahr, Germany.

 

From 1990 to 1992, General Henault was the Base Commander at CFB Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, heading Canada’s premier flying training centre with lead responsibility for primary, helicopter and instructor training. A number of Air Force command and staff appointments followed, including command of 10 Tactical Air Group in St. Hubert, QC and Chief of Staff Operations at Air Command Headquarters (HQ) in Winnipeg, MB. In 1996, he was posted to Ottawa to begin a series of jobs at National Defence HQ that included military planning and operations and Deputy Chief of the newly-formed Air Staff. In 1998, he was promoted Lt.-Gen. and appointed Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff, or head of operations. Gen. Henault’s three-year tenure was highlighted by the Canadian contribution to the Kosovo air and ground campaigns and other significant NATO missions, including the Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

 

In June 2001, Gen. Henault was promoted to his present rank and appointed Chief of the Defence Staff, a position he held until February 2005, and a period marked by the highest operational tempo for the Canadian Forces in 50 years including those generated by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In addition to the major and sustained commitment to the International Assistance Force in Afghanistan, which continue, Canada was also active during his tenure in coalition and United Nations missions including those in Haiti, Ethiopia-Eritrea, the Golan Heights, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone.

It was under Gen. Henault’s leadership as Chief of the Defence Staff that ambitious efforts also took shape to remake, remodel and transform the Canadian Forces into a more flexible, responsive and capable operational force and to reform its medical, professional development and education systems .

General Henault was elected by his NATO peers to the position of Chairman of the NATO Military Committee in November 2004 and assumed that position at NATO HQ in Brussels in June 2005.  In that capacity, and in the most senior position in the Alliance, represented all NATO Chiefs of Defence at NATO HQ and served as the NATO military spokesperson and military advisor to the North Atlantic Council.  He completed his three-year commitment to NATO in June 2008, returning to Canada to retire after 40 years of military service.

 

Fluent in both English and French, Gen. Henault is a graduate of the École supérieure de guerre aérienne (ESGA) in Paris, France and Canada’s National Defence College. He is also an Honorary Ancien of the NATO Defence College in Rome, Italy.  He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Manitoba, and is an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy (Military Science) of the Royal Military College in Kingston, ON.  He is also an Honorary Professor of the University of Pecs in Pecs, Hungary.

 

General Henault also holds the rank of Commander of the Canadian Order of Military Merit (CMM), Commander in The Most Venerable Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Commander of the French Légion d'Honneur, and Commander in the United States Legion of Merit.  He is also a recipient of the Belgian Order of the Grand Croix at Commander level, the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary and the Ukrainian Medal of Honour and the Czech Cross of Merit (1st Degree).  Further, he is a recipient of the NATO Meritorious Service Medal and the Canadian Meritorious Service Cross. General Henault was also Canada’s Vimy Award winner in 2007 and the recipient of the Birchall Leadership Award from the Royal Military Colleges Club in 2008.

 

General Henault is the longest serving 4-Star General in Canadian Forces history (over 7 years).  He retired from the Canadian Forces on 31 July 2008 and resides in Winnipeg, MB with his wife Loraine.
 

SHARON HOBSON

Sharon Hobson has been the Canadian correspondent for Jane’s Defence Weekly since April 1985.   She also writes a regular column for Canadian Sailings and Canadian Naval Review, and has written occasional features for the Financial Post, Ottawa Citizen, and Canadian Defence Quarterly.  She is co-author with Vice-Admiral Dusty Miller of a book on the Canadian navy in the Persian Gulf War, The Persian Excursion, which was published in April 1995.  In 2004, she won the Ross Munro Media Award for defence writing.


 


 

Don Macnamara

Don Macnamara, a specialist in national and international security affairs and strategic intelligence analysis, retired as a Brigadier-General after 37 years in the RCAF and Canadian Forces. For the last half of his military career he was doing and teaching strategy, strategic analysis and planning in National Defence Headquarters, the Canadian Forces College and the National Defence College.

On retirement, he joined the faculty of the Queen's School of Business and taught international business and strategy in the Commerce, MBA and Executive Programs for  20 years. Although now retired and living in Sidney-by-the-Sea, BC, he continues to teach at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto, where he is Honorary Colonel. He serves on the Air Command Advisory Council and on Board of Governors of the Royal Military College. He is a Senior Fellow at the Queen's Centre of International Relations and also a Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at Cranfield University, U.K.

A past-president of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, he was a founding member of the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, its President for 8 years and Chair for its transition to integration with the Canadian International Council (CIC). A member of the former Canadian Institute of International Affairs for over 30 years, he served on the executive of the Toronto Branch, as President of the Kingston Branch and is now President of the Victoria Branch of the CIC, member of the National Board and chair of the Strategic Studies Working Group.

He received a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario, a M.A. from the University of Toronto, a D.Sc.Mil (hc) from the Royal Military College of Canada, and is a graduate of both the Canadian Forces Staff College and the National Defence College of Canada.

He was invested as an Officer in the Order of Military Merit in 1978 and at Queen’s was the co-recipient of the School of Business Scholars of Excellence Award, received the Commerce Society Award for Teaching Excellence, the Distinguished Service Award from the Queen’s Theological College and was recognized for efforts in international education by being made a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International. In 2001, he was awarded a Chief of Defence Staff Commendation for his “contribution to strategic planning, professional military education and professional development”.

 

DAVID PRATT

David Pratt is an independent consultant. Most recently, he spent five months in Baghdad, Iraq as a Senior Parliamentary Expert with the USAID sponsored Iraq Legislative Strengthening Program – currently the largest legislative capacity building project in the world. From 2004-2008, he served as Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the Canadian Red Cross (CRC) where his focus was on humanitarian issues. He also led the CRC’s ‘Auxiliary to Government’ project which promoted a new relationship between the CRC and governments at all levels. Mr. Pratt served as an elected representative at the municipal, regional and federal levels for 16 years. He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1997 and was Chair of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs from 2001 to 2003. He served as Canada’s 36th Minister of National Defence in 2003-04.
 

ELINOR SLOAN

Elinor Sloan is Associate Professor of international relations in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, and is a former defence analyst with Canada's Department of National Defence. Dr. Sloan received her B.A. (Hons Political and Economic Science) from the Royal Military College of Canada in 1988, her M.A. (International Affairs) from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, Ottawa, in 1989, her M.A. (Law and Diplomacy) from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Boston, in 1995, and her PhD (International Relations) from the Fletcher School in 1997.

Dr. Sloan's research interests include Canadian and US military capabilities and defence policy, the Arctic, homeland defence, ballistic missile defence, NATO and peacekeeping. She is the author of five books, most recently Military Transformation and Modern Conflict (Praeger Publishers, 2008) and Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2nd edition, 2010).
 

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