The Honourable Mr. Justice William Ian Corneil Binnie

Mr. Justice Binnie, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. Born in Montreal, Quebec, April 14, 1939. Son of James Corneil and Phyllis (Mackenzie) Binnie. Educated at McGill University, B.A., 1960; Cambridge University, LL.B., 1963, LL.M., 1988; University of Toronto, LL.B., 1965. Hon. LL.D., Law Society of Upper Canada, 2001; Hon. LL.D., McGill University 2001. Married to Susan Strickland on May 28, 1965. Children: Daniel, Matthew, Alexandra and Max. Called to the English Bar, 1966. Bar of Ontario, 1967. Admitted to practice before the International Court of Justice, 1984. Bar of the Yukon Territory, 1986. Occasional calls to the Bars of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland. Created Q.C. (Ontario), 1979. Practised litigation at Wright & McTaggart and successor firms until 1982. Associate Deputy Minister of Justice for Canada, 1982-86. A Senior Partner, McCarthy Tétrault, 1986-98. Of counsel for Canada against the United States in the Gulf of Maine dispute before the International Court of Justice, 1984. Appointed Special Parliamentary Counsel to the Joint Senate and House of Commons Committee examining the Meech Lake Accord, 1990. Of counsel for Canada against France in the St. Pierre and Miquelon maritime boundary dispute, 1991. Appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada in many leading constitutional, civil and occasional criminal cases. Advisor to the Government of Newfoundland respecting constitutional amendments to the Terms of Union. Part-time lecturer on Aboriginal Rights at Osgoode Hall Law School, 1975-79. Elected Commissioner, International Commission of Jurists, April 2003. Lecturer at the Upper Canada Law Society and The Canadian Bar Association, The Advocates’ Society and other professional associations. Author of numerous publications. Elected Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, 1993. Member of the Middle Temple Inns of Court (England). Chairman, Ontario Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee. Appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada, January 8, 1998.

Lise Bissonnette, O.Q.

Lise Bissonnette is the chief executive officer of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec. In August 1998 she was appointed chief executive officer of the Grande bibliothèque du Québec, which was merged with the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec in 2002. Before her appointment, Ms Bissonnette was the managing editor of the French-language daily newspaper LE DEVOIR for eight years.

After completing graduate studies in education science in Montreal, Strasbourg and Paris, Ms Bissonnette worked in the field of higher education planning. In 1974, she began a career in journalism at Le Devoir and was appointed managing editor of that newspaper in 1990. A well- known political and cultural analyst, she directed a major reform of this influential newspaper which resulted in an editorial overhaul, a financial turnaround, and the introduction of a new design that won numerous international awards.

Ms Bissonnette is also a writer and is the author of seven books, three essays and four works of fiction. Her works of fiction have been translated into English and published by Anansi.

She is the recipient of numerous awards, including six honorary doctorates from universities in Quebec, Canada and the United States, as well as a career medal from the Académie des lettres du Québec. She was inducted into the Canadian Journalism Hall of Fame, was awarded the Ordre de la Pléiade (French-speaking world), and was made an officer of the Ordre national du Québec as well as a Knight of the Légion d’honneur de France.

The Bibliothèque nationale du Québec is presently building the Grande Bibliothèque, a new national cultural establishment located in the heart of Montreal. The Bibliothèque nationale du Québec is responsible for networking all of Quebec’s documentary institutions and for promoting books, reading, as well as national and international literature throughout Quebec.

The Honourable Bruce Cohen

Mr Justice Bruce Cohen was born in Vancouver, B.C. He received his B.A. (1962) and LL.B. (1965) from the University of British Columbia and his LL.M. (1966) from the University of California (Berkeley). He was called and admitted to Bar of British Columbia as a Barrister and Solicitor in July 1967, and upon his call he joined the law firm of Ladner Downs (now Borden Ladner Gervais). He was elected a Bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia in 1978, and served as its Treasurer in 1986. He became a Q.C. in 1983, and retired from practice in 1987 to accept an appointment to the Supreme Court of British Columbia. He is a Past President of the Canadian Judges Conference (now the Canadian Superior Courts Judges Association), and Vice President of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice.

Mary Coyle

Mary Coyle holds an MA in Rural Development from the University of Guelph=s School of Rural Planning and Development and also holds a BA in Languages from the University of Guelph. As Director of the Coady International Institute she provides leadership to professional and academic staff and oversees the ongoing development of the Institute. Her research and practice focuses mainly on the areas of non-profit management, microfinance, gender, self-employment and community capacity-building. The Institute is world- renowned for its work in sustainable community-based development. The Institute has over 4400 graduates and partners in 120 countries. Mary Coyle has been Director of the Institute since 1997.

Ms Coyle has worked extensively abroad and in Canada in the fields of rural development, community capacity building, adult education, gender, organizational management and community economic development for the past 23 years. She has worked in most regions of the world with postings in Botswana and Indonesia. She is a founding director of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The Honourable Eleanore Cronk

Madam Justice Eleanore A. Cronk, of Toronto, sits on the Ontario Court of Appeal. She received a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Windsor in 1975 and was admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 1977. She practiced with the Toronto firm of Fasken & Calvin (later known as Fasken Campbell Godfrey) specializing in civil litigation. In 1997, she became a founding partner in the specialty counsel firm of Lax O=Sullivan Cronk in Toronto.

Before her appointment, Madam Justice Cronk appeared before all levels of courts in Ontario and Canada as well as before a variety of administrative tribunals including the Ontario Municipal Board, the Environmental Assessment Board and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. She has served as Counsel to certain Inquiries, including Counsel to the Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario before the Walkerton Inquiry.

Madam Justice Cronk was a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, served as President of The Advocates= Society (1993-94) and was a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In 2000, Madam Justice Cronk received the Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Windsor.

The Honourable Peter Loughheed, P.C., C.C., Q.C.

Peter Lougheed was born in Calgary. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law degrees from the University of Alberta. Later, he graduated from Harvard University with a master of business administration degree.

In 1965, he was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta. On August 30th, 1971, Peter Lougheed became Premier of Alberta. In each of the following elections of 1975, 1979 and 1982, the Honourable Peter Lougheed and his party increased their popular vote and their majority.

During his time in office, the government introduced the Heritage Savings Trust Fund and the Alberta Bill of Rights. Peter Lougheed was a key player in the negotiations leading to the patriation of Canada's constitution. Known for championing the interests of Western Canada, he has also been a strong supporter of Canadian unity.

Mr. Lougheed was made a member of the Privy Council of Canada in 1982. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1987 and inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1989.

After his retirement from public life, he became a senior partner in the Bennett Jones law firm of Calgary, where he is now Counsel, and a lecturer at the University of Calgary and the Banff Centre of Management. He has been an active board member on numerous Canadian corporations. In addition he is currently the President of the Council of the Historica Foundation of Canada and a Member of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. Mr. Lougheed is involved internationally as a member of the Trilateral Commission. Richard W. Pound, O.C., O.Q., Q.C.

Richard Pound is a partner with the law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP. His main areas of practice include tax litigation and negotiations with tax authorities on behalf of clients, in addition to general tax advisory work.

Mr Pound has lectured in taxation matters at McGill University in the Faculty of Law and in the McGill Centre for Continuing Education in the Chartered Accountancy program. He is a member of the Quebec and Ontario Bars and is a Chartered Accountant in both jurisdictions. He is the current Chancellor of McGill University and was previously Chair of its Board of Governors. Mr Pound is a member of the International Olympic Committee and is Chairman of the Olympic Games Study Commission and of the World Anti-Doping Agency. He is the Honorary Consul General of Norway in Montreal and has served as a member of the Federal Court Bench and Bar Liaison Committee from 1999-2002 and from 2003 to date. He is a member of the Advisory Council of Canada's National History Society.

Mr. Pound was awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) by the University of Windsor in 1997 and an Honorary Ph.D. by the United States Sports Academy in 1989. He received a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from the University of Western Ontario in June 2004. He graduated from McGill University (B.C.L. 1967); McGill University (Licentiate in Accounting 1964); Sir George Williams University - now Concordia University (B.A. 1963); and from McGill University (B.Comm. 1962).

Mr. Pound has written extensively and is the author of a biography of The Honourable W.R. Jackett and a history of the law firm Stikeman Elliott.

The Honourable John D. Richard

Born July 30, 1934 at Ottawa, Ontario. Education at University of Ottawa, B.A. (Political Science) - 1955; Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, awarded the Gold Medal and the Chancellor Van Koughnet Scholarship - 1959; Louvain University, Belgium, Licentiate in Political and Social Sciences with Honours - 1960. Called to the Bar of Ontario, 1959. Appointed Queen's Counsel, 1976; Associate and Partner, Gowling & Henderson, Ottawa, 1960- 1988. Partner, Lang Michener, Ottawa, 1988-1994. Member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Advocates' Society, Judicial Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Past President of l'Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario. Appointed Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division, and ex officio Member of the Court of Appeal, August 30, 1994. Also appointed Judge of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada, January 11, 1995. Appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada, June 23, 1998. Appointed Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada, November 4, 1999. Appointed Vice-Chairperson of the Canadian Judicial Council, 2002. Following the coming into force of amendments to the Federal Court Act (on July 2, 2003) which created a separate Federal Court of Appeal, he became the Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal.

The Honourable Roy Romanow, P.C., O.C., Q.C.

Roy Romanow was born, raised, and educated in Saskatoon. He graduated from the University of Saskatchewan where he earned his Arts and Law Degrees. He was first elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1967. Between 1971 and 1982, Roy Romanow served as Deputy Premier of Saskatchewan.

On November 7, 1987 Mr. Romanow was acclaimed Leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic party to succeed Allan Blakeney. On October 21, 1991 Mr. Romanow won a 55 seat majority government, and assumed the duties of Premier on November 1, 1991.

Mr. Romanow=s government introduced a number of fiscal, economic and social reforms. These included an expansion of the ground-breaking Action Plan for Children, the introduction of the Building Independence strategy to help move families off social assistance, and enhancements to the provincial health care system.

Mr. Romanow retired from politics in February 2001, and shortly thereafter was appointed head of the Royal Commision on the Future of Healthcare in Canada, which issued its Final Report in November of 2002.

Currently, Mr. Romanow holds the title of Senior Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina, and is also a visiting Fellow in the School of Policy Studies at Queen=s University.

In 2003, Mr. Romanow was awarded honourary doctorates from Brock University and the University of Ottawa. He was recently recognized by the Pan American Health Organization - a regional body of the UN - for his work on the national Health Commission and for initializing the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission, and was appointed to the Canadian Privy Council and the Security Intelligence Review Commission by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in late 2003.

Mr. Romanow and his wife Eleanore live in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

Chief Justice Richard D. Scott

Appointed Associate Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, October 1985. Appointed Chief Justice of Manitoba (Court of Appeal), July 1990. Member of the Canadian Judicial Council, October 1985 to present. Chairperson Judicial Independence Committee, 1990 to 1998. Chairperson of the Special Working Committee on the preparation of Ethical Principles for Judges, March 1995 to December 1999. Chairperson of the Special Committee on the Future Directions of the Canadian Judicial Council, March 2000. First Vice-Chairperson of Canadian Judicial Council, Chairperson of Judicial Conduct Committee, September 2000. Presenter at the Judicial Education Program in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1995. Guest lecturer to Ukrainian judiciary, Ottawa, Ontario, March 1997. Participant in the Ukrainian-Canadian Conference on Judicial Independence and Accountability, Kiev, Ukraine, October 1997. Participant in a seminar for judges, Warsaw and Stok, Poland, sponsored by the Council of Europe, June 1997. Presenter at the Judicial Standards Seminar, Rotorua, New Zealand, September 2000.

Janice Gross Stein

Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. She holds a special distinction as a University Professor and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Janice Gross Stein has authored over 80 books, book chapters and articles on intelligence, international security, negotiation processes, peace-making and public policy. She is the winner of the Mershon Prize for an outstanding contribution to public education on issues of national security. She has also been active as a member of important international advisory panels, including the Committee on International Conflict Resolution of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C., and the Committee on International Security of the American Academy of Sciences. She also served as Chair of the Research Advisory Board to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Advisory Board to the Minister of Defence and as Member of the Board of the Royal Military College.

Janice Gross Stein was the Massey Lecturer in 2001. The lectures, published as The Cult of Efficiency, were nominated for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize in Political Writing, the Donald Smilie Prize and the Pearson=s Readers= Choice Award. She also provides regular news commentary for CBC and TVO. She has recently been appointed a Trudeau Fellow.

Jean Teillet

Ms Teillet is a founding member of the Métis Nation of Ontario and the founding president of the Métis Nation Lawyers Association. She is the great grand niece of Louis Riel and has focused her legal practice on aboriginal issues, particularly the Métis.

She practices, and has recently been made partner, with the law firm Pape Salter Teillet in both Toronto and Vancouver. A member of the Ontario, British Columbia and Northwest Territories law societies, Ms Teillet is an active tutor and mentor to Aboriginal law students from the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto and Osgoode Law School. She is founder of the National Aboriginal Moot, a program run annually where Aboriginal law students from participating Universities hold a Moot Court to discuss and address issues relevant to the Aboriginal community.

In 2001 she went to Russia as part of a Canadian-Russian Parliamentary team to study and consult with the Aboriginal people of Siberia, traditional reindeer herders, about political, environmental and social issues affecting them. In 2002, she was the first recipient of the Lincoln Alexander Award, an award which is given out annually by the Law Society of Upper Canada for service to the community.

Ms Teillet has presented lectures across Canada on the subject of Métis and Aboriginal rights and the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and the Government of Canada. She has lectured at the Law Society of Upper Canada, a Conference of the Ontario Native Justices of the Peace, the Canadian Bar Association, the Law Society of Manitoba, and the University of Toronto among others.

Prior to her call to the Bar, she produced live staged events for corporate and theatrical sponsors. She spent 25 years in the theatre as a dancer, writer, performer, teacher, choreographer and director.

Milton Wong, C.M.

Milton Wong founded M.K. Wong & Associates Ltd. (MKW) in 1980 to provide investment counselling to pension plans, foundations, mutual funds and individuals. HSBC acquired MKW in 1996 and in his role with HSBC Asset Management Canada he manages $3.8 billion in assets. HSBC Asset Management Canada is a member of the HSBC Asset Management Group, managing global assets exceeding $59 billion.

Mr. Wong was awarded Socially Responsible Entrepreneur of the Year in 1994. He has played a pivotal role in establishing and supporting several high-profile institutions and events around Vancouver, including Science World, the UBC Portfolio Management Program, and the Canadian Dragon Boat Festival. He is co-chair of the B.C. Cancer Foundation Millennium Campaign and advisory board member with the Salvation Army. He has been awarded the Civic Award from the City of Vancouver, the Distinguished Leadership Award and a doctorate degree from Simon Fraser University, the Order of Canada and Honour Roll distinction from MacLean’s magazine. In 1999, he was elected the new Chancellor for Simon Fraser University. Mr. Wong is also the founder and chair of The Laurier Institution, an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge concerning the economic and social implications of cultural diversity.

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