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

Taki Sarantakis, President, 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, 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 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 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, ; former Parliamentary Bureau Chief for

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 , 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 , 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