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Group of 78 Annual Policy Conference 2002

Program

September 27 - 29, 2002
Econiche House: 32 River Road, Cantley, Quebec J8Y 3A1

Conference Chair: Peggy Mason
Rapporteurs: Tim Creery, Arch MacKenzie

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Friday, September 27

1800 Cash bar

1830 Dinner

1930 Welcome from G78 co-chairs Jim Christie and Élisabeth Barot

Introductory Keynote speaker:
“Scanning the Horizon: System Static and Rough Waters”

Margaret Catley-Carlson (Chairperson, Global Water Partnership, former president Canadian International Development (CIDA) and former president, Population Council.)

Saturday, September 28

0900 Panel 1 – Environmentally Sustainable Development – International Commitment and Implementation. Are we going forward?
Chair: Jennifer Dickson

• Roy Culpeper (President, North-South Institute)
• Mark Winfield(Acting Policy Director, Environmental Governance, Pembina Institute)

1030 Break

1045 Panel 2 – Trade and Global Equity- New Partnerships or Recolonization?

Chair: Dwight Fulford

• Bill Dymond (Executive Director, Centre for Trade Policy and Law, Carleton University; former Canadian Ambassador to Brazil)
• Bernie Wood (President, Bernard Wood and Associates Ltd., and Associate, International Development & Strategies, Paris and Bristol, former Director, Development Cooperation Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD))

12:15 Lunch

100 Luncheon Speaker “The Balance between Human Rights and Public Security”

Warren Allmand (Former President, Rights and Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development ), former Solicitor General, and former International President, Parliamentarians for Global Action)

1400 Break

1415 Panel 3 – Redefining National and International Security: Canadian Foreign Policy at another crossroads or a steadily narrowing bicycle path?
Chair: Michael Shenstone

• Andrew Cohen (Columnist and Professor, Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication, and Norman Paterson School of International Affairs)
• Fen Hampson (Director and Professor, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University)
• Peggy Mason (Faculty Member of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament)

1530 Break

1600 Concurrent Discussion Groups:

1) Canadian Defence Policy - Moderator, Graeme Kirby

Resource persons:

• Stan Carlson (formerly Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT), and the UN Situation Centre for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations)
• Colonel (ret'd) Douglas A. Fraser Fraser (formerly, Canadian Military Advisor to the Canadian Permanent Mission in New York, Political Officer in the UN Department of Disarmament Affairs and Executive Director of the Canadian Council for International Peace and Security)

2) Canadian Water Policy – Moderator, Penny Sanger

Resource persons:

• Margaret Catley-Carlson (Introductory keynote speaker)
• Mark Winfield (panel 1 speaker)

3) Canadian Anti-Terrorism Legislation– moderator: Tim Creery

Resource persons:

• John Reid (Federal Commissioner for Information, Former MP)

4) International Criminal Court and the Future of International Law - Moderator, Peggy Mason

Resource persons:

• Mike Perry (United Nations, Human Rights and Economic Law Division, DFAIT)
• Fergus Watt (World Federalists of Canada)

1800 Cash bar

1830 Dinner

1915 Concluding Keynote Speaker

• Manfred Bienefeld (Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University)

Sunday, September 29

0900 Discussion group reports; summary and recommendations.

1130 G78 Annual General Meeting (chair Élisabeth Barot)

1230 Lunch

The Group of 78 is pleased to acknowledge the financial support for this conference from the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade through the John Holmes Fund, the International Development Research Centre, and the Canadian Department of National Defence, through the Special Projects Fund.