Board of Directors

H COL ROBERT J.S. GIBSON, CLJ, MMLJ,  CHAIR

Robert J. S. Gibson joined the Royal Canadian Navy as an officer cadet and attended first year at the University of Alberta. This was followed by a period with Southland Canada during which he became District Manager for Alberta and was responsible for the management of thirty-one 7-Eleven stores.

After leaving Southland Canada, Bob was engaged in the real estate development industry with Western Realty Projects where he became Area Manager for Southern Alberta. In 1976, he accepted a position as President of United Management Ltd. and ultimately, Managing Director of Alsten Holdings Ltd., the holding company of the Singer Family of Calgary, a position that he still holds.

In 1986, Bob returned to the family roots and acquired the Bobtail Ranch in Penticton, B.C. where he and Brigitte raise a commercial herd as well as a reputable herd of pedigree Angus cattle.

Bob sits on a number of committees related to the Army Reserve restructuring. He is active in charitable works through both the Order of St. Lazarus and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Program.

He is currently holding the position of Honorary Colonel of the Calgary Highlanders in 2002.
 

ROBERT BOOTH

Bob Booth is a senior partner of the Bennett Jones LLP law firm based in Calgary.

Bob has a broad commercial practice covering many areas of the energy and resources field. He has represented clients in oil and gas exploration, production and marketing, in major pipeline transportation projects, in uranium mining and production, in electric power generation and transmission, and in energy utility businesses. Bob's experience includes acting in the purchase and sale of businesses, establishing new businesses, structuring joint ventures and partnerships, and advising management in strategic decision making, both for Canadian and a variety of foreign corporations.
 

To complement his practice, Bob has taught Oil & Gas Law and has spoken and authored articles on Canadian Oil & Gas law for the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation, the Alberta Law Review, and various professional and business seminars.

Bob is involved in business, professional, academic and public policy organizations. He is a director of Canadian Utilities Limited, a director of the Canadian Petroleum Law Foundation, President of The Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada, Vice-Chair of the Advisory Council to the University of Calgary Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, and a Director of the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute.
 

Bob is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the Canadian Bar Association and is a director of public and privately held corporations. Bob is listed in Woodward White’s 2006 inaugural edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of natural resource law and is also recognized as one of Canada's pre-eminent energy lawyers in LEXPERT^â/American Lawyer’s Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, the Canadian Legal LEXPERT^â Directory and Who’s Who Legal’s The International Who’s Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers 2006. He is also recognized in the 2006 LEXPERT^â Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada, in the 2006 LEXPERT^â Guide to Canada’s Top 100 Industry Specialists in the area of Oil & Gas, and in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2006 as a leader in the field of energy.

BRIAN FLEMMING

Brian Flemming, CM, QC, DCL, is a Canadian policy advisor, writer and international lawyer. From 2002 to 2005, he was Chairman of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), a Crown corporation that was created by Canada’s federal Parliament on April 1, 2002, to improve security at Canadian airports and on Canadian aircraft. He acted as CATSA’s first CEO and set up the Crown corporation.

Following his departure from CATSA, Mr. Flemming became a Special Advisor to Sypher-Mueller International, an Ottawa-based consulting firm working primarily in the aviation sector. In August, 2005, he was appointed for a two-year term by the Government of Canada to the new Advisory Council on National Security.         

Previously, in 2000-01, Mr. Flemming was Chairman of the Canadian Transportation Act Review (CTAR) Panel, a major statutory decennial review of Canada’s transport policies. His report to the Government of Canada was widely hailed for its vision and balance. In 2003, he was awarded the National Transportation Week “Award of Achievement”.

Mr. Flemming is a former senior partner of the law firm of Stewart, McKelvey, Stirling & Scales and a former lecturer in public international law at Dalhousie Law`School. He has been chairman as well as a director of scores of public, private and not-for-profit corporations. His public company directorships have included Noranda, Brunswick Mining & Smelting, Enheat, VGM Capital, First Choice Canadian Communications, Azure Resources and Homburg Invest. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of PDM Royalties Income Fund.

Between 1976 and 1979, he was Assistant Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau. In recent years, he has spoken at international meetings or universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa on transport policy, general security issues, air transport security in Canada and internationally, the war on terrorism and the public international law of the sea.

He has been the vice chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, a board member of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, chairman of the International Centre for Ocean Development, founding chairman of Symphony Nova Scotia and a board member of: the Canadian Institute of International Affairs, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Institute for Research on Public Policy, the Van Horne Institute, Pearson College of the Pacific and the International Oceans Institute of Canada.

Mr. Flemming has degrees in science from Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, and in law from Dalhousie University, Halifax. He did post-graduate work in public international law at University College London, England, and at the Hague Academy of International Law, Netherlands. 

He has an honorary doctorate from the University of King’s College  where he was chairman of the Board of Governors for nearly 10 years. He became a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989. He lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, is married and has two adult children.
 

JACK GRANATSTEIN

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 60^th 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 21^st 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.
 

Robert B. Hamilton

ROBERT S. MILLAR

Mr. Robert S. Millar has academic, corporate, government, military and not-for-profit experience. He taught at the Royal Military College. Over the past 23 years, he has been an executive in several corporations ranging from oil sands development, downstream petroleum, biotechnology, private medicine and high tech research & development. His experience in corporate life ranged from administration, human resources, financial management, marketing & sales, development and operations. In 2000 he retired with the rank of Brigadier-General from the Canadian Forces, having served 15 years in the Regular Army and 20 years with the Army Reserve.

Bob has served on several Boards: Shooting Star Technologies, Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Board, Citizen’s Advisory Roundtable (CAR) on the future use of the former Canadian Forces Base Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Canadian Petroleum Products Institute and Transportation Association of Canada. He was Chair of a private Research Ethics Board, the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, Prairie Petroleum Association – Marketing, Conference of Defence Associations and President of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps Association. Currently, he is a director of the Kid’s Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta, the Calgary Military Museum Society, the Museum of the Regiments and the Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation. He is Chair of Eric Technologies Corporation and the Sharing Our Military Heritage Foundation.

Bob has a Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Commerce degrees from Queen’s University. In 1998 he attended the Queen’s University Public Executive Program. He holds the designation “Officer” in the Order of Military Merit.
 

April 2008
Stephen Harper is Mackenzie King

  by Jack Granatstein

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