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2011-2012 Annual Report the Pierre Elliott Trudeau THE PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU FOUNDATION 2011-2012 ANNUAL REPORT 03 03 ABOUT THE FOUNDATION 10 ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2011-2012 12 MessaGE FROM THE PAST CHAIR ABOUT THE FOUNDATION A Canadian institution with a national purpose, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation is an independent and 14 MessaGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR non-partisan charity. It was established in 2001 as a living memorial to the former prime minister by his family, friends, and colleagues. In 2002, the Government of Canada endowed the Foundation with a donation of $125 million with the unanimous support of the House of Commons. In addition, the Foundation benefits from private sector donations in support of specific 16 MessaGE FROM THE PRESIDENT initiatives. Through its Scholarship, Fellowship, Mentorship, and Public Interaction Programs, the Foundation supports outstanding individuals who make meaningful contributions to critical public issues. Our charitable registration number is 18 THE Trudeau DOCTORAL SCholarship 895438919RR0001. Donate now at trudeaufoundation.ca/donate. OUR MISSION Through our growing community, we actively encourage talented individuals to develop audacious proposals, to set and achieve ambitious goals, and to interact with and teach as many people as possible. The best ideas emerge when individuals from different generations and different disciplines 26 THE Trudeau MENTORSHIP focus on a problem together, when technical, scientific and policy innovators are informed by outstanding communicators in bioethics, geography, history and the law, and when new patterns of human behaviour are revealed and deep cultural under- 32 THE Trudeau FELLOWSHIP standing is achieved. Our distinctive organization is devoted to the delivery of four core programs: three funding programs targeting scholars, fellows, and mentors, and a public interaction program intended to promote knowledge acquisition, transfer, and exchange among our program beneficiaries and the public. The Foundation’s annual activity cycle revolves around these 36 THE Trudeau PUBLIC INTERACTION PROGRAM four programs. OUR THEMES Our programs are structured around four themes, chosen to reflect the interests of the late Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau and areas of critical importance to Canada and Canadians: → Human Rights and Dignity → 43 FRIENDS OF THE Foundation Responsible Citizenship → Canada in the World → People and Their Natural Environment 44 FINANCIAL Statements 56 Plans FOR 2012-2013 56 Corporate Information The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Annual Report 2011-2012 ISSN 1918-2406 Legal deposit – Bibliothèque et archives nationales du Québec, 2012 Legal deposit – Library and Archives Canada, 2012 Printed in Canada − Design : Paprika IndependenCE The Foundation’s role is to foster dialogue, a mandate that it fulfills by providing forums for free and open exchange on a wide range of social issues in a diversity of disciplines. The Foundation is a bridge between research and practice, the arts and the sciences, academia and industry, civil society and government. Its support of the proliferation of knowledge, innovation, and ideas is in the service of the public interest. This is all possible due to the independent status of the organization – intellectual independence and independence from the political realm. 05 DIVersitY Research and scholarship in the human- Social purpose, improvements to the expressed, tested, and debated. The rich- ities and social sciences help us under- economy and the environment, social ness and depth of the national dialogue is stand our world and our place in it. This justice, cooperation between nations, enhanced by our constant effort to bring is where we turn for answers to questions and productivity are all nurtured by the together multiple voices and viewpoints about who we are, where we come from, social sciences and humanities. The on matters of public interest. from, where we are going, and how we Foundation offers a free space where all relate to society and the environment. perspectives on a given question can be 06 OriGinalitY During the last decade, the Foundation has developed a experience, and expertise to offer for the development of new community of scholars and practitioners that is uniquely public policies. Original and creative solutions to critical interdisciplinary, intergenerational and international. Coming public issues emerge from the intertwinement of disciplines from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and and from interactions across nations. humanities, this community has a wealth of knowledge, 09 10 2011-2012 EXPENSES A B G F E C ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN 2011-2012 D WE HAVE → APPOINTED ten 2012 mentors, offering $350,000 for eighteen months to ten highly accomplished Canadians from diverse backgrounds who have been paired with 2010 Trudeau scholars to help them connect with policy networks. Twenty mentors were enrolled in the Trudeau Mentorship Program this year. SELECTED fifteen new 2012 Trudeau scholars, committing $2.7 million A. Scholarship program $1,758,662 over three years to support fifteen outstanding Canadian and foreign PhD students actively engaged in their fields and expected B. Public interaction program $1,589,653 to become leading national and international figures. This year, the Foundation funded 62 scholars.A PPOINTED four 2012 Trudeau C. Program planning and delivery $982,105 fellows, including a national visiting Trudeau fellow, making an investment of $900,000 over three years in four outstanding D. Fellowship program $930,078 E. Administration $523,184 Canadian intellectuals who have set themselves apart through their research achievements, their creativity, and their public F. Investment counsel fees $333,621 engagement. The Foundation supported thirteen fellows this year. HELD eight major public interaction events, in addition to G. Mentorship program $218,223 seventeen other events organized by Trudeau community members or other external partners and sponsored or supported by the Foundation. CONTINUED to implement the review panel’s recommendations and the strategic directions set in the 2010-2015 Strategic Plan. StabiliZED staff turnover and made sound hiring decisions. Sustained our knowledge dissemination efforts, notably by editing and publishing the third volume of The Trudeau Foundation Papers. ASSESSED and confirmed the value of the fourth- year funding offered to Trudeau scholars. Initiated a review process for the Fellowship Program to leverage the engagement of fellows and their intellectual leadership in the Foundation. HIRED a new public relations firm to improve the public profile and visibility of the Foundation and the important work of its awardees. STEPPED UP discussions with the Trudeau Foundation Society INVESTMENTS AS AT 31 AUGUST to sustain and nurture a network of former mentors, scholars, and fellows. PROCEEDED with a feasibility study of our fundraising initia- (market value) tives. WORKED with a former university president to set the stage for co-sponsored university scholarships with Canadian universities. 2010 $ 155,609,112 2011 $ 156,002,742 2012 $ 155,999,677 12 PassinG the baton After twelve years as chairman of the Board of Directors of solve issues of importance to Canadians. Because of these the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, I have decided that it efforts, the Foundation is well positioned to find answers is time to pass on the baton to a younger person. I am to today’s and tomorrow’s public challenges in the invaluable delighted to inform you that the Foundation has found a work done by the Trudeau mentors, fellows and scholars, successor in Mr. John McCall MacBain as the new chair and to share this knowledge with Canadians through public starting in November 2012. As long as my services are interaction events which provide an ideal – and unequalled – required, however, I intend to remain a Family representative forum to discuss these questions. on both the Board and the Membership, and will continue to serve the Foundation to my best ability. I am especially grateful for the support, commitment, and MESSAGE FROM THE PAST CHAIR dedication of the Foundation’s directors, mentors, staff, and We can be proud of the organization we have built. We have partners over the years. Together we have established and unrolled a unique program while at the same time growing developed a foundation that has become much more than the original endowment of $125 million to assets totalling a living memorial to the life and work of our late friend, $156 million as at the last financial statement. Pierre Trudeau. I take this opportunity to thank you all for your unwavering As we plan for the 10th Annual Conference on Public Policy commitment to the social sciences and humanities in in Montreal in 2013, the Trudeau Foundation has grown into Canada, and, more particularly, for supporting me as we have an independent and credible organization that has earned a advanced the Foundation’s mission in support of outstanding name for itself. This success, for which you deserve a great individuals whose significant contributions are helping to deal of the credit, merits celebration. Mr. Roy L. Heenan, O.C., Ad.E., is one of the founding members of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. He has been its chair since 2001. The Foundation’s president, staff, members, and directors sincerely thank Mr. Heenan for his dedication to the Foundation’s development. 14 LeadinG A neW endeaVour It is a great honour for me to become the chair of the Board of Directors. I thank the members and the Board of the Foundation for their trust. I also recognize Roy L. Heenan’s leadership as founding chair in helping to develop this organization from nothing to what it is today. I am looking forward to contributing a few ideas of my own, but I intend to serve in the continuity of what has been built over the years by the Board and the Foundation, under Mr. Heenan’s MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR exemplary leadership and the great work of Pierre-Gerlier Forest and his team. Why do I care about the Foundation? First, I am a great believer in education and scholarships. I know that without winning a Rhodes scholarship, I would not be where I am today.
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