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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 College 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. He was the Rowell Jackman Fellow at the Canadian Institute
of International Affairs (1996-2000) and is a member of the Royal
Military College of Canada Board of Governors (1997- ). 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) and is now chair of the Museum’s Advisory Council
(2001- ).
Granatstein has held
the Canada Council's Killam senior fellowship twice (1982-4, 1991-3),
was editor of the Canadian Historical Review (1981-84), and was
a founder of the Organization for the History of Canada. 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. He has been awarded honorary doctorates by Memorial
University of Newfoundland (1993), the University of Calgary (1994),
Ryerson Polytechnic University (1999), the University of Western
Ontario (2000), McMaster University (2000), and Niagara University
(2004). He is a Senior Fellow of Massey College (2000- ). The
Conference of Defence Associations Institute named him winner of the
Vimy Award “for achievement and effort in the field of Canadian
defence and security” (1996). Canada’s National History Society named
him the winner of the Pierre Berton Award for popular history (2004),
and he has been an Officer of the Order of Canada since 1997.
Granatstein writes
on 20th Century Canadian national history--the military, defence and
foreign policy, Canadian-American relations, the public service,
politics, and the universities. He comments regularly on historical
questions, defence, and public affairs in the press and on radio and
television; he provided the historical commentary on the CBC's
coverage of the 50th and 60th anniversaries of D-Day (1994,
2004), V-E Day (1995), and V-J Day (1995); and he speaks frequently
here and abroad. He has been a historical consultant on many films,
most recently “Canada’s War” (Yap Films, 2004).
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 is a member of the Advisory Committee of the
Dominion Institute, an adjunct fellow of the University of Calgary’s
Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (1997- ), and Chair of the
Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century (2001-4).
He is both a Board member (2004- ) and the Chair of the Advisory
Council of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (2001-
).
His many scholarly
and popular books include The Politics of Survival: The
Conservative Party of Canada 1939-45 (1967), Peacekeeping:
International Challenge and Canadian Response (1968), 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 Ottawa Men: The Civil Service Mandarins, 1935-57 (1982,
1998), 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; new
expanded edition, Thomson Nelson, 2006), War and Peacekeeping:
From South Africa to the Gulf--Canada's Limited Wars (1991),
Dictionary of Canadian Military History (1992, 1994), The
Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World
War (1993, 1995; new edition, University of Calgary Press, 2005),
Empire to Umpire: Canadian Foreign Policy to the 1990s (1994),
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),
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), Hell’s Corner: An
Illustrated History of Canada’s Great War (2004), and Battle
Lines: First Person Military Accounts from Our Past (2004). He is
publishing The Last Good War: An Illustrated History of Canada’s
Second World War (2005).
Granatstein is
married and lives in Toronto.
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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). Since leaving the CBC in
August, 2005, he has been President and CEO of the Alliance of
Manufacturers & Exporters Canada.
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JOCELYN
COULON
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Jocelyn Coulon
has been a visiting Fellow with the Research Group in
International Security (REGIS) at the Université de Montréal's Centre
for International Research and Studies (CÉRIUM) since
2004. He also writes a column on international politics for the
Montreal daily La Presse.
He was director of the Montreal campus of the Pearson Peacekeeping
Centre from February 1999 to December 2003. He is a member of the PPC
Board of Directors.
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 2004, Guide
du maintien de la paix 2005 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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Natasha Hassan
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Natasha Hassan is Deputy Comment Editor of The Globe and Mail.
She joined the Globe in early 2005 as Bureaus Editor for the Report on
Business, where she was responsible for the business section's
national and international news coverage.
Ms. Hassan came to the Globe from the National Post where she held
numerous positions, most notably Comment Editor from the paper's
inception in 1998 till 2004. She was also a senior editor and
editorial writer with the former Financial Post before the launch of
the National Post.
Prior to her career in journalism, Ms. Hassan worked as research
co-ordinator for the Centre for International Studies.
Ms Hassan is a fellow of LEAD International, established in 1991 by
the Rockefeller Foundation to promote leadership in sustainable
development. She has a degree in international relations from Trinity
College, University of Toronto. She is also a co-founder of the Robert
H. Catherwood Scholarship at the U of T, and a member of its oversight
committee.
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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 a regular
commentator on CBC Newsworld.
Most recently, Mr. Harder was Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs from June 2003 through February 2007 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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GENERAL
(RET'D) PAUL MANSON
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General Manson served as Chief of the Defence Staff from 1986 to 1989,
culminating a distinguished 38-year career with the Royal Canadian Air
Force and the Canadian Forces. A fighter pilot, he commanded at every
level of the Air Force prior to his appointment as CDS, and served
extensively with Canada’s NATO Forces in Europe. He was Commander of
Air Command from 1983 to 1985.
A native of Trail, B.C., General Manson was educated in Montreal and
Pembroke, Ontario, before attending the Canadian Military Colleges at
Royal Roads and RMC. He holds BSc degrees in Electrical Engineering
from RMC and Queen’s University, and he has received two honourary
doctorates.
Following military service, he entered business as the president of a
large aerospace company, ultimately retiring in 1997 as Chairman of
Lockheed Martin Canada. From 1998 to 2005 General Manson served as
full-time voluntary Chairman of the “Passing the Torch” campaign,
which raised $16.5 million in support of the new Canadian War Museum.
He was a Trustee of the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation
from 2000 to 2006, and in that capacity he chaired the Canadian War
Museum Committee. Currently the president of the Conference of Defence
Associations Institute, an Ottawa think-tank, General Manson has
written numerous articles on defence and national security, and he is
a frequent commentator on defence issues on television and radio.
General Manson is a past chairman of the Aerospace Industries
Association of Canada and of Canada’s Aviation Hall of Fame.
His decorations include Commander of the Order of Military
Merit and Commander of the U.S. Legion of Merit. In 2002 he was made
an Officer of the Order of Canada, and he was the 2003 recipient of
the Vimy Award.
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DAVID
PRATT
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 The Honourable David Pratt, P.C. is currently serving as Advisor to
the Secretary General and Special Ambassador for the Canadian Red
Cross. Mr. Pratt’s focus is on issues related to conflict prevention,
the control of small arms and light weapons, international
humanitarian law, war affected children and security sector reform.
For 16 years, Mr. Pratt served as an elected representative at the
municipal, regional and federal levels. He was first elected to the
House of Commons for Nepean-Carleton in 1997. From December 2003 to
July 2004, Mr. Pratt served as Canada’s Minister of National Defence.
Prior to his appointment to Cabinet, Mr. Pratt was Chair of the House
of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence and Veterans Affairs
– a position he held from 2001 to 2003.
He also served as a member of
the House of Commons Justice Committee’s Sub-Committee on National
Security. As Canada’s Special Envoy to Sierra Leone under two
ministers of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Pratt was involved extensively in
legislation to address the “conflict diamonds” issue.
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ELINOR
SLOAN
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Elinor
Sloan is Associate Professor of international relations in the
Department of Political Science, 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 defence policy,
Canadian military capabilities, U.S. force transformation, the
Revolution in Military Affairs, homeland defence, ballistic missile
defence and NATO military capabilities. She is the author of
Bosnia and the New Collective Security (Praeger Publishers,
1998), The Revolution in Military Affairs (McGill-Queen's
University Press, 2002), Security and Defence in the Terrorist Era
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005) and Military
Transformation and Modern Conflict
(Praeger Publishers, 2008).
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GORDON
SMITH
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 Gordon
Smith is Executive Director of the Centre for Global Studies at
the University of Victoria and Chair of the Board of the
International Development Research Centre. He is Vice-Chair of the
Canadian Commission for the international Institute for Strategic
Studies and a member of the Trilateral Commission. He has been
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador to NATO. Dr.
Smith holds a Ph.D. in strategic studies from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
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DENIS
STAIRS
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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 Chair of the Board of Visitors of the
Canadian Forces College, he specializes in Canadian foreign and
defence policy, Canada-US Relations and similar subjects.
Dr. Stairs was appointed an Officer
of the Order of Canada in 2006.
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