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2004 Conference - français |
Sovereignty and the Interdependence of Nations:
Implications for Canada
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Group of 78 Annual Policy Conference 2004
Program
September 10 - 12, 2004
Econiche House: 32 River Road, Cantley, Quebec J8Y 3A1
Conference Chair: Peggy Mason
Presentation of Conference Resolutions: Clyde Sanger |
Friday, September 10
18:00 Cash bar
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Welcome from G78 chair Peggy Mason
Keynote Speaker - Paul Heinbecker, Canada's former ambassador to the United Nations and inaugural Director of the Laurier Centre for Global Relations, Governance and Policy, Wilfred Laurier University.
Saturday, September 11
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Panel – Population Growth and Decline, Resource Consumption and Climate Change: Can we ever get ahead of these problems?
Chair: Andy Clarke
- Madeline Weld (President, Population Institute of Canada)
- Elizabeth May (Executive Director, Sierra Club of Canada)
10:30 Break
10:45 Panel – Globalization of Poverty: Levelling up or levelling down?
Chair: Murray Thomson
- Andrew Clark (Sr. Analyst,Canadian International Development Agency, International Financial Institutions)
- Thomas Turay (Coady Institute, Antigonish, Nova Scotia)
12:15 Lunch
Speaker: Responsibility to Protect: How and when to intervene to save lives
Moderator: Christine Harmston
- John Packer (Independent consultant, formerly Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Associate Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)
13:45 Panel – Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Strengthening the International System for the 21st Century
Chair: Metta Spencer
- Rob McDougall (Director, Foreign Affairs Canada Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament Division)
- Peggy Mason (Senior Fellow, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Former Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament)
15:15 Break
15:30 Concurrent discussion groups – four discussion groups, on the topics of Responsibility to Protect, plus each of the panel topics above. These will be moderated by the panel chairs and include the speakers as resource people for the discussion. The aim of these discussion groups is to develop recommendations on each of the four key themes of the conference.
18:00 Cash bar
18:30 Dinner
Sunday, September 12
09:00 Discussion group reports; presentation of resolutions.
Chair: Clyde Sanger
11:30 G78 Annual General Meeting
Chair: Peggy Mason
12:30 Lunch
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