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DENIS
STAIRS - CHAIR
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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
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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
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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).
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BOB FOWLER
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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
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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.
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PETER
HARDER
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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
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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
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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
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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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SHARON
HOBSON
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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.
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Don
Macnamara
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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”.
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DAVID
PRATT
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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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ELINOR
SLOAN
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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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