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H COL ROBERT J.S. GIBSON, CLJ, MMLJ, CHAIR
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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.
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ROBERT BOOTH
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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 LEXPERTâ/American
Lawyer’s Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, the Canadian Legal
LEXPERTâ Directory
and Who’s Who Legal’s The International Who’s Who of Oil & Gas
Lawyers 2006. He is also recognized in the 2006 LEXPERTâ
Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada, in the 2006
LEXPERTâ 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.
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BRIAN
FLEMMING
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 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.
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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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Robert B. Hamilton
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Mr. Hamilton has been an Executive with the Royal
Bank Financial Group for the past 18 years where he is involved in
financial planning and investments for institutions and individuals,
as well as managerial responsibilities. Bob's community service is
extensive. He is most proud of his role as a board member of
organizations such as the Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation,
Calgary Stampede Foundation, Wilfrid Laurier University Board of
Governors, Red Deer College Foundation Board, and as the co-founder
of the Tim Hamilton Endowment Scholarship Fund at the Red Deer
College and the Wish Foundation of Alberta. Mr. Hamilton's
enthusiasm, positive attitude, professionalism, creative approach to
problem solving and his ability to successfully encourage others to
give back to their community have served him well as a leader in his
professional and volunteering activities.
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ROBERT S. MILLAR
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 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.
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