1800 Cash bar
1830 Dinner
1930 Welcome from G78 chair Peggy Mason
Opening Address: Hon. Flora MacDonald; Former Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, President, World Federalists of Canada, Chair Partnership Africa Canada, Program advisor, CARE Canada
900 Panel - Canada's Development Assistance Programme: Past and Future
Chair: Steve Mason
· George W. Shaw (Director General, Communications Branch, Canadian International Development Agency)
· Nancy Gordon (Senior Vice-President, CARE Canada)
1030 Break
1045 Panel - Canada and the World Trade Organization: A Development Agenda
Chair: Ross Francis
· John Curtis (Senior Policy Adviser and Coordinator for Trade
and Economic Policy, Department of Foreign affairs and International Trade)
· Ann Weston (Vice-President and Research Coordinator, The North-South Institute)
1215 Lunch
1330 Discussion Groups:
1. Food Security and Agricultural Development: Ending Developed Country Subsidies Chair: Dwight Fulford
Presenter: Michael Bassett (Program Officer, Policy Team, Canadian Council for International Cooperation
2. Health Issues in the Third World - AIDS, Malaria, TB
Chair: Leslie McWhinnie
Presenter: Janet Hatcher-Roberts (Executive Director, Canadian Society for
International Health)
3. The Role of NGOs
Chair: Penny Sanger
Presenter: Barbara Shenstone (Middle East policy advisor, Care Canada)
1545 Break
1600 Panel - Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding under a Pax Americana:
What should Canada do?
Chair: Geoffrey Pearson
· Peggy Mason (Senior Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament)
· Colonel (ret'd) Douglas A. Fraser (formerly, Canadian Military Advisor to the Canadian Permanent Mission in New York, Political Officer in the UN Department of Disarmament. January-March 2003, Chief of Office with UN weapons inspectors in Iraq)
1800 Cash bar
1830 Dinner
1930 Emergency Debate on possible Canadian Participation in the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defence System
Chair: Peter Meincke
· George Lindsey (retired defence scientist, Department of National Defence)
· Senator Doug Roche
· Ann Crosby (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, York University)
0900 Discussion group reports; summary and recommendations.
Chair: Ross Francis
1130 G78 Annual General Meeting
Chair: Peggy Mason
1300 Adjournment.
The Group of 78 is pleased to acknowledge 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, The Simons Foundation, and the Canadian Peacebuilding Coordinating Committee.
