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DAVID
BERCUSON
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David
Bercuson was born in Montreal in August 1945. He attended Sir George
Williams University, graduating in June 1966 with Honours in History
and winning the Lieutenant-Governor's Silver Medal for the highest
standing in history. After graduation he pursued graduate studies at
the University of Toronto, earning an MA in history in 1967 and a
Ph.D. in 1971.
Dr. Bercuson has published in academic and popular publications on a
wide range of topics specializing in modern Canadian politics,
Canadian defence and foreign policy, and Canadian military history. He
has written, coauthored, or edited over 30 popular and academic books
and does regular commentary for television and radio. He has written
for the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Calgary Herald, the
National Post and other newspapers.
In 1988, Bercuson was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and in
May 1989, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at
The University of Calgary. In 1997 he was appointed Special Advisor to
the Minister of National Defence on the Future of the Canadian Forces.
He was a member of the Minister of National Defence’s Monitoring
Committee from 1997 to 2003. Since January 1997 he has been the
Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the
University of Calgary. He is also the Director of Programs for the
Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, which is based in
Calgary.
Dr.
Bercuson’s newest book, co-authored with Holger Herwig, is A Christmas
in Washington: Churchill, Roosevelt and the making of the Grand
Alliance. It will be published in New York, London and Toronto in the
fall of 2005.
Dr.
Bercuson is Honorary Lieutenant Colonel of the 33 Field Engineer
Squadron, a Land Force Reserve military engineer unit of the Canadian
Forces.
Dr. Becuson serves on the Advisory Council on National Security and
Board of Governors, RMC.
In 2002
Dr. Bercuson was awarded the J. B. Tyrrell Historical Medal from the
Royal Society of Canada. In 2003, he was appointed an Officer of the
Order of Canada.
He recently became the recipient of the 2004 Vimy
Award sponsored by the Conference of Defence Association Institute
(CDAI) which recognizes Canadians who have made a significant and
outstanding contribution to the defence and security of our nation and
the preservation of our democratic values.
Keywords:
Canadian defence policy, Canadian foreign policy, Canadian security
policy, The Canadian forces, Canadian military history, Canada-US
defence relations, Canada-NATO defence relations.
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DEREK
BURNEY
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Derek H. Burney (66) is Chairman of the Board of Directors of New
Brunswick Power Corp. He is also Visiting Professor and Senior
Distinguished Fellow at Carleton University.
Mr. Burney was born in Fort William (now Thunder Bay), Ontario, and
was educated at Queen's University, where he received an Honours B.A.
and M.A.
He was President and Chief Executive Officer of CAE Inc. from October
1999 until August 2004. Prior to joining CAE, Mr. Burney was Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Canada International Inc.
(1993-1999). From 1989-1993, Mr. Burney served as Canada’s Ambassador
to the United States. This assignment culminated a distinguished
thirty-year career in the Canadian Foreign Service, during which he
completed a variety of assignments at home and abroad.
From March 1987 to January 1989, Mr. Burney served as Chief of Staff
to the Prime Minister. He was directly involved in the negotiation of
the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. He was the Prime Minister's
personal representative (Sherpa) in the preparations for the Houston
(1990), London (1991) and Munich (1992) G-7 Economic Summits.
In February 1992, Mr. Burney was awarded the Public Service of
Canada's Outstanding Achievement Award. In July 1993, he was named an
Officer of the Order of Canada.
Mr. Burney was conferred Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Lakehead
University, Queen's University, Wilfrid Laurier University and
Carleton University.
His memoir of government service - “Getting it Done” - was published
by McGill-Queen’s in 2005.
He is the Lead Director at Shell Canada Ltd. and a Director of CanWest
Global Communications Corp. and TransCanada Pipelines Limited. He is
Chairman of the Confederation College Foundation and a Fellow at the
Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute.
Mr. Burney is married to Joan (Peden) and has four sons.
Keywords: Canada-US relations.
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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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REID
MORDEN
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Reid Morden is President, Reid Morden & Associates
which provides advice and comment on intelligence, security, and
public policy issues. He is currently on an exclusive assignment as
Executive Director of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the
United Nations Oil-For-Food Program.
A career public servant, he has held a number of senior positions,
including Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service,
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and President and CEO of Atomic
Energy of Canada Limited. Following these appointments, Mr. Morden
spent four years in the private sector, mostly dealing with business
intelligence and the security and intelligence sector more generally,
with such firms as Kroll and KPMG Forensic Inc.
Mr. Morden graduated from Dalhousie University and has received an
honorary LLD from the University. He chairs the Board of Governors of
Trent University and sits on the Board of Directors of the Homeland
Security Leadership Alliance. He is also a member of the Advisory
Board of the International MBA program at the Schulich School of
Business at York University and the Institute for the Study of
International Terrorism and Violence. Mr. Morden is a Member of the
Order of Canada, a Grand Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross
(Brazil) and a holder of the Ian L. MacRae Award from the nuclear
industry.
Keywords: Intelligence, security, public policy issues.
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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.
Keywords: Conflict prevention, small arms and light weapons
control, international humanitarian law, war-affected children,
security sector reform.
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ELINOR
SLOAN
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Elinor
Sloan is Association Professor International Relations in the
Department of Political Science at Carlton 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 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).
Keywords:
Canadian defence policy, Canadian Forces, US defence policy, homeland
defence, ballistic missile defence, defence transformation, NATO,
NORAD.
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GORDON
SMITH
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Gordon
Smith is the Director of the Centre for Global Studies, and Adjunct
Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. Dr.
Smith arrived at the University of Victoria in 1997 following a
distinguished career with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs,
which included posts as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from
1994-1997, Ambassador to the European Union in Brussels from
1991-1994, and Ambassador to the Canadian Delegation to NATO, from
1985-1990. He is the author (with Moisés Naím) of Altered States:
Globalization, Sovereignty, and Governance (Ottawa: IDRC, 2000), and
co-editor (with Daniel Wolfish) of Who is Afraid of the State? Canada
in a World of Multiple Centres of Power (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2001), as well as numerous book chapters and articles.
Since 1997, Dr. Smith has served as Chairman of Canada’s International
Development Research Centre. He currently holds positions as Executive
Director of the Canadian Institute for Climate Studies, and Board
Director of the International Forum de Montréal. He holds a Ph.D. in
Political Science from M.I.T.
Keywords:
Globalization, governance, security, foreign policy.
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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.
Keywords: Canadian foreign and defence policy, Canadian-US
relations
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