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Current Advisory Council members
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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.
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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.
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Jocelyn Coulon
Jocelyn
Coulon is the Director of the Peace
Operations Research Network, at the
Université de Montréal's Centre for
International Research and Studies
(CÉRIUM) since 2005. 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).
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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.
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Jack Granatstein
Jack Lawrence Granatstein was born in
Toronto on 21 May 1939. He
attended Le Collège militaire royal de
St-Jean , the Royal Military College,
Kingston, the University of Toronto, and
Duke University, served in the Canadian
Army , then joined the History
Department at York University, Toronto
where, after taking early retirement, he
became Distinguished Research Professor
of History Emeritus. Granatstein was a
member of the Royal Military College of
Canada Board of Governors, and from 1998
to 2000, he was the Director and CEO of
the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
Granatstein has been an Officer of the
Order of Canada since 1996 and a Fellow
of the Royal Society of Canada since
1982. 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 holds a number of honorary
degrees.
Granatstein writes a monthly newspaper
column for CDFAI and in each issue of
Legion Magazine. He writes on 20th
Century Canadian national history--the
military, defence and foreign policy,
Canadian-American relations, the public
service, and politics and comments
regularly on historical questions,
defence, and public affairs in the media
and speaks frequently here and abroad.
He is the author of numerous scholarly
and popular books and articles.
He lives in Toronto.
Keywords: Canadian
History, Military History, Canada-US
Relations, Defence and Foreign Policy
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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.
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Dan Hays
Dan Hays has been a member of the
Macleod Dixon law firm (now Norton Rose
Canada LLP) since his call to the Bar in
1966. He is a senior partner with
Norton Rose 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:
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Updating Some
Antiquated Constitutional
Provisions Relating to the
Senate, Canadian Parliamentary
Review, Spring, 2009.
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Reviving
Conference Committees, Canadian
Parliamentary Review, Autumn,
2009.
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A New Senate
for Canada: A Two-Step Process
for Moving Forward on Senate
Reform, Canada West Foundation,
September, 2008.
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Renewing the
Senate of Canada: A Two-Phase
Proposal, May, 2007.
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The Modern
Senate of Canada: A Study in
Functional Adaptability, June,
2004.
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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.
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Don Macnamara
BGen(Ret'd) Don Macnamara, following a
37 year career in the RCAF and CF, was
for 20 years a professor in the Queen's
University School of Business and the
Queen's Executive Development Centre.
The last Chair of the Canadian Institute
of Strategic Studies and first Chair of
the CIC Strategic Studies Working Group,
he is the current Chair of the Board of
Governors of the Royal Military College
of Canada and serves on the CDFAI
Advisory Council.
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John Manley
The Honourable John Manley, P.C., O.C.,
was appointed President and Chief
Executive of the Canadian Council of
Chief Executives (CCCE) effective
January 1, 2010.
Mr. Manley is a former Deputy Prime
Minister of Canada. He was first elected
to Parliament in 1988, and re-elected
three times. From 1993 to 2003 he was a
Minister in the governments of Jean
Chrétien, serving in the portfolios of
Industry, Foreign Affairs and Finance,
in addition to being Deputy Prime
Minister.
Following the terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001, Mr. Manley was named
Chair of a Cabinet Committee on Public
Security and Anti-terrorism, serving as
counterpart to Governor Tom Ridge, the
first U.S. Secretary of Homeland
Security. In recognition of the role he
played following 9/11, TIME Canada named
him "2001 Newsmaker of the Year".
After a 16-year career in politics, Mr.
Manley returned to the private sector in
2004. From 2004 to 2009 he served as
Counsel to McCarthy Tétrault LLP, a
leading Canadian law firm. In that
capacity he provided strategic advice in
matters relating to public affairs,
including trade, telecommunications,
security and finance.
Since leaving government, Mr. Manley has
continued to be active in public policy,
as a media commentator, speaker and
adviser to government. In 2003, Ontario
Premier Dalton McGuinty asked him to
lead a review of the province’s
electricity sector. In 2005, he
co-chaired the Independent Task Force on
the Future of North America for the
Council on Foreign Relations, a
non-partisan think tank based in New
York City. In 2007, Prime Minister
Stephen Harper named Mr. Manley to chair
an Independent Panel on Canada’s Future
Role in Afghanistan.
In addition to his role as President and
Chief Executive of the CCCE, Mr. Manley
serves on the boards of several publicly
traded companies and is active in the
not-for-profit sector.
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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.
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Robin Sears
Robin Sears has served clients
on three continents as a management,
executive search and public affairs
consultant. As a strategic advisor to
governments, corporations and the NGO
sector in Europe, Asia, Canada and the
United States he has led teams on large
public advocacy, M&A, technology, and
market development projects. He joins
Earnscliffe in Ottawa.
Robin started his career as a reporter
at City-TV. As national director of the
NDP for seven years where he directed
four national campaigns, and led the
NDP’s move into direct mail
fund-raising, proprietary opinion
research, and national advertising.
Under German Chancellor Willy Brandt, he
was the assistant general secretary of
the Socialist International, the world’s
largest community of political parties.
He worked on strategic issues with
leaders in Europe, Southern Africa and
the Middle East. Robin was Chief of
Staff to Ontario Premier Bob Rae during
the Accord government, and Ontario’s
chief trade diplomat in Asia, managing a
network of seven offices. He has also
been a senior partner of the world’s
largest executive search firm and of a
Canadian public affairs firm.
Robin has been a national political
commentator for more than three decades,
and is a contributing writer to Policy
Options, Canada’s leading journal of
political analysis. He serves on several
community boards and is currently the
President of the Empire Club of Canada.
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Elinor Sloan
Elinor Sloan is
Professor of International Relations in
the Department of Political Science at
Carleton University, Ottawa, and is a
former defence analyst with Canada’s
Department of National Defence. She is a
graduate of the Royal Military College
of Canada (BA), the Norman Paterson
School of International Affairs at
Carleton (MA), and the Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
(PhD).
Dr. Sloan's
research interests include: the defence
policies and military capabilities
(army, navy, air force) of Canada, the
United States, major NATO allies,
Australia and China; NORAD and ballistic
missile defence; and the Arctic.
Her books include
The Revolution in Military Affairs
(McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002);
Security and Defence in the Terrorist
Era (McGill-Queen's University
Press, 2005 & 2010); Military
Transformation and Modern Warfare
(Praeger Publishers, 2008); and
Modern Military Strategy (Routledge,
2012).
Keywords:
Canadian defence policy, Canadian
Forces, Canadian military, Royal
Canadian Navy, Royal Canadian Air Force,
Canadian Army, US defence policy, US
military, ballistic missile defence,
NATO, NORAD, China military, rare
earths, satellites, RADARSAT, Arctic,
space
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Rob Wright
Rob Wright served as Canadian Ambassador
to China from 2005-2009. He served as
Ambassador to Japan from 2001-2005.
From 1995-2001 he was Canadian Deputy
Minister for International Trade.
Over his 38 years in public service in
the Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade other appointments
included:
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Deputy
Head of the Canadian Embassy in
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Director
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Deputy
Head of the Canadian Delegation
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Trade Negotiations, and, |
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Delegation to the GATT Tokyo
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He has also served as
a Director of Export Development Canada
(EDC), Chairman of the Canadian
Commercial Corporation (CCC) and
Commissioner of the Northern Pipeline
Agency. During his appointment in China
he was concurrently accredited as
Canadian Ambassador to Mongolia.
He was born in Montreal and attended
McGill University.
He retired from public service in 2009.
In addition to enjoying
retirement, he writes, lectures and
consults on Canada’s relations with
China and Japan and on Canada’s foreign
and trade policies.
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