Shaw Centre, Trillium Ballroom Tuesday, March 3, 2020
PROGRAM
7:30 am – 8:45 am REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING
8:45 am – 8:50 am WELCOME
Serge Blais, Master of Ceremonies
Annie Champagne, Master of Ceremonies
8:50 am – 9:00 am WELCOMING ADDRESS
Jacline Nyman, Vice-President, External Relations, University of Ottawa
Taki Sarantakis, President, Canada School of Public Service
9:00 am – 10:00 am FROM DEFICIT TO SURPLUS
Peter Donolo, Vice Chairman at Hill+Knowlton Strategies; former Director of Communications to the Right Honourable Jean Chrétien
The Honourable John P. Manley, Senior Business Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP; former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finance Minister, and Industry Minister; former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council of Canada
The Honourable Wayne Wouters, Strategic and Policy Advisor, McCarthy Tétrault LLP; former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet
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Moderator: Tonda MacCharles, Senior Reporter, Ottawa Bureau, Toronto Star
10:00 am – 10:20 am HEALTH BREAK AND NETWORKING
10:20 am – 11:10 am FROM BRAIN DRAIN TO BRAIN GAIN
Paul C. Genest, Senior Vice-President, Power Corporation of Canada; former Chief Executive Officer of the Council of Ontario Universities; former Director of Policy and Research to The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien
Edward Goldenberg, Partner, Bennett Jones LLP; former Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada and the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff
Martha Piper, former President and Vice-Chancellor, University of British Columbia
Moderator: Anne McIlroy, Executive Director, Strategic Engagement, University of Ottawa; former Parliamentary Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail
11:10 am – 12:15 pm CONVERSATION WITH A PRIME MINISTER
The Right Honourable Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister of Canada
Moderator: Bob Plamondon, Consultant, independent director and author of The Shawinigan Fox: How Jean Chrétien Defied the Elites and Reshaped Canada
12:15 pm – 1:30 pm LUNCH (provided)
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm NATIONAL UNITY: FROM THE 1995 REFERENDUM TO THE CLARITY ACT
Edward Goldenberg, Partner, Bennett Jones LLP; former Senior Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada and the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff
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The Honourable Pierre Pettigrew, Executive Advisor, International, Deloitte Canada and the Government of Canada's Special Envoy for the Canada–European Union Trade Agreement; former Minister for International Cooperation, Minister responsible for La Francophonie, Minister of Human Resources Development, Minister for International Trade, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister of Health, and Minister of Foreign Affairs
The Honourable Allan Rock, President Emeritus, University of Ottawa, and Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations; former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Minister of Health and Minister of Industry
Recorded observations from: The Honourable Jocelyne Bourgon, President, Public Governance International; President Emeritus, Canada School of Public Service; former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet
Moderator: Carissima Mathen, Full Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa; author of Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions and co-editor of Women, Law and Equality: A Discussion Guide
2:30 pm – 2:45 pm HEALTH BREAK AND NETWORKING
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm THE CHRÉTIEN DOCTRINE AND THE DECISION TO KEEP CANADA OUT OF THE IRAQ WAR
Margaret Bloodworth, Honourary Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet; former Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Deputy Minister of National Defence, and Deputy Minister of Transport
Claude Laverdure, Honourary Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; former Canadian Ambassador to France; former Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister and Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy
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The Honourable John P. Manley, Senior Business Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP; former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finance Minister, and Industry Minister; former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council of Canada
Moderator: Jeffrey Simpson, Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; author, and former national affairs columnist, The Globe and Mail
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
Margaret Bloodworth, Honourary Senior Fellow, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa; former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet; former Deputy Minister of Public Safety, Deputy Minister of National Defence, and Deputy Minister of Transport
Rob Fonberg, Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto; former Deputy Minister in the Privy Council Office, Deputy Minister at International Trade, and Deputy Minister at National Defence
Daniel Watson, Deputy Minister, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs
Moderator: Taki Sarantakis, President, Canada School of Public Service
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm THANK YOU AND CLOSING REMARKS
Taki Sarantakis, President, Canada School of Public Service
Jeffrey Simpson, as Member of the Board of Governors of the University of Ottawa