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A diverse field of Canada’s most well known and respected personalities from journalists to politicians offering their comments on the issues of the day, everyday.

Lloyd Axworthy is President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. Formerly Director and CEO of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia and Canada’s Foreign Minister from 1995 to 2000, his political career spanned 27 years - during six of which he served in the Manitoba Legislative Assembly and 21 in the federal Parliament.

Dr. Axworthy held several Cabinet positions, notably Minister of Employment and Immigration, Minister Responsible for the Status of Women, Minister of Transport, Minister of Human Resources Development, Minister of Western Economic Diversification and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In the Foreign Affairs portfolio, he became internationally known for his advancement of the human security concept, in particular the Ottawa Treaty - a landmark global treaty banning anti-personnel landmines. For his leadership on landmines, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. For his efforts in establishing the International Criminal Court and the Protocol on child soldiers, he received the North-South Institute’s Peace Award.

Since leaving public life in the fall of 2000, Dr. Axworthy has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and honours. The Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation presented him with the Senator Patrick J. Leahy Award in recognition of his leadership in the global effort to outlaw landmines and the use of children as soldiers and to bring war criminals to justice. Princeton University awarded him the Madison Medal for his record of outstanding public service and he received the CARE International Humanitarian Award. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been named to Order of Manitoba and to the Order of Canada.

In February 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appointed Dr. Axworthy as his special envoy for Ethiopia-Eritrea to assist in implementing a peace agreement between the East African countries. He currently sits on the High Level Commission for the Empowerment of the Poor – UN Development Program. In January 2006, the Organization of American States appointed Dr. Axworthy to head the OAS Electoral Observation Mission that will monitor the April 9 general elections in Peru.

He remains involved in international matters and lectures widely in Canada, the U.S. and abroad. His book <i>Navigating a New World - Canada’s Global Future</i>(Knopf Canada)was published in the Fall of 2003.

Hugh Segal is the junior Conservative Senator from Ontario and the former president of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. He is a senior fellow at the Queen's School of Policy Studies and has authored several books on public policy and conservative politics in Canada. He has served on the foreign affairs, agriculture and aboriginal affairs committees of the Senate, and chairs the Walter and Duncan Gordon foundation and the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies.

Tarek Fatah is the author of Chasing a Mirage: The Islamic state or a state of Islam, to be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2008. Host of the popular weekly TV show The Muslim Chronicle, Fatah was born in Pakistan where he grew up in the 1960s and ’70s as a left-wing student leader. Fatah was a newspaper and TV reporter until 1978, when he had to leave Pakistan following a military coup. In Canada since 1987, he has been a prominent spokesman for secular and progressive Muslim causes -- contributing frequently to The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and the National Post. He is also the founder of the Musim Canadian Congress, which has advocated for a strict separation of religion and state and was one of the groups that led the fight to outlaw religious courts in Canada.

Preston Manning is the President and CEO of the Manning Centre for Building
Democracy and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute.

He served as a Member of the Canadian Parliament from 1993 to 2001. He
founded two new political parties – the Reform Party of Canada and the
Canadian Reform Conservative Alliance – both of which became the official
Opposition in the Canadian Parliament. Mr. Manning served as Leader of the
Opposition from 1997 to 2000 and was also his party’s critic for Science and
Technology.

Since retirement from Parliament in 2002, Mr. Manning has released a book
entitled Think Big(published by McClelland & Stewart)describing his use of
the tools and institutions of democracy to change Canada’s national agenda.
He has also served as a Senior Fellow of the Canada West Foundation and as a
Distinguished Visitor at the University of Calgary and University of
Toronto.

Mr. Manning continues to write, speak, and teach on a variety of subjects
including the revitalization of democracy in the Western world, the
revitalization of Canadian conservatism, Canada-U.S. relations,
strengthening relations between the scientific and political communities,
the re-balancing of Canadian federalism, the regulation of the genetic
revolution, and the management of the interface between faith and politics.

Host of the cleverly named John Moore Show on Toronto’s CFRB Monday to Friday, He is also known to TV viewers for his interview shows Guy Stuff(CanWest Global)and Mystery Ink(Mystery Network). A veteran newscaster and reporter, John has also written and directed for all of Canada’s major networks including the French language CBC. His acting career is a somewhat dodgy affair although he did appear in The Whole Nine Yards, The Day After Tomorrow, and an episode of the cult TV show Big Wolf on Campus that was written specifically for him. John writes regularly for the National Post and has also been published in Readers Digest and The New York Times. He lives in Toronto and Montreal.

Tim Powers is a small business owner and Vice-President of Summa Strategies Canada - a government relations consulting firm based in Ottawa. Tim lectures in the Faculty of Communications at the University of Ottawa and is a Conservative media commentator, appearing frequently on CTV, CTV Newsnet and ROB TV while writing a regular column for The Hill Times. He also serves as a member of the Council of Advisors to the Manning Centre for Democracy. Originally from St. John's, Newfoundland, Tim began his career as an assistant and advisor to the Honourable John C. Crosbie, then Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. Thereafter, he acted as advisor to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development. He also served as the Director of Policy and Research to the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Tim has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland, a Master of Arts degree(Atlantic Canada Studies)from St. Mary's University, and a Master of Sciences degree(Media and Communications)from the London School of Economics. Tim has also studied Public Sector Management at Harvard University.

Rick Anderson has spent some 20 years in and around federal politics, including over 10 years as an active Liberal and almost a decade as a Reformer. These days, Rick pursues his political interests - in particular democratic reform - through less-partisan, non-partisan or cross-partisan initiatives such as the Fireweed Democracy Project and Fair Vote Canada and through public affairs commentary on television, radio and in print. Beyond political affairs, Rick is active in business, serving as President and CEO of Zip.ca, as CEO of his own consulting practice, as chair of a publicly-traded technology firm and as a member of several other business and community boards of directors. Before starting his own business, he spent fifteen years in senior executive positions with Hill & Knowlton in Canada, the United States and Europe.

Bio coming soon.

A member of the Board of Directors of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, Shirley Heafey is the former Commissioner for Public Complaints against the RCMP.

In addition to presiding over sweeping changes in the structure and operation of the Commission, she instituted the largest and most far-reaching public interest hearing and public interest investigation in the Commission's history. Ms. Heafey made two sets of significant submissions to Mr. Justice O'Connor's enquiry into the Maher Arar matter. As Chair, she traveled extensively across Canada to promote understanding and to enhance public awareness of the Commission's important role. Ms. Heafey completed her 8-year term as Chair of the Complaints Commission in October 2005.

Ms. Heafey graduated with a law degree from the University of Ottawa Law School. She also studied Islamic Law and Administrative Law at Harvard Law school and received certificates in Advanced Negotiation and Mediation from Harvard. In 1993 she established her own law firm, concentrating on administrative law, employment law and human rights.

Dan Arnold is a Masters student at the University of Alberta and President of the Alberta Young Liberals. His blog, Calgary Grit, is one of the net's most well-read and respected Liberal blogs. Calgary Grit offers daily commentary on Canadian politics from the perspective of an endangered species -- the Alberta Liberal.

Antonia Maioni is Director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. She is also an associate professor of Political Science and William Dawson Scholar at McGill University.

A multilingual Montréaler, Antonia studied at Université Laval, the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University, and Northwestern University. She has held visiting appointments at Harvard and Duke Universities in the U.S. and at the European University Institute in Italy.

Dr. Maioni has published extensively in the field of Canadian and comparative politics, with a particular focus on health policy. She comments extensively on Canadian politics, Quebec politics, and health care in both French and English language media across Canada.

Guy Giorno is a partner at Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP and Canada’s leading expert on lobbying law. He regularly speaks, writes and advises clients on Canada’s different lobbyist registration laws and is the principal co-author of the text Lobbying in Canada(Carswell). Mr. Giorno is a high-profile advocate of tough, effective lobbying laws and his perspective is frequently sought by the news media.

He is also a political strategist who has been active in politics and campaigns for more than a quarter century, including service as Chief of Staff and counsel to Ontario premier Mike Harris. Successively responsible for policy development, strategic planning and communication of the Harris government, he was described in the media as the “the intellectual heart of the government” and its “leading intellectual force.” His leadership was characterized by high degrees of creativity, discipline and strategic focus.

A veteran of more than two dozen campaigns, he was part of the central Conservative campaign in five consecutive Ontario elections and involved in strategy, platform development and messaging. Since the creation of the Conservative Party of Canada, he has also been active in federal campaigns.

In 2006, he co-founded the non-partisan ThreeYears.ca coalition, formed to oppose legislation that proposed to weaken democracy by reducing the frequency of municipal elections in Ontario. He is currently championing restrictions on political fundraising by professional lobbyists(or restrictions on lobbying by professional fundraisers, depending on one’s perspective).

At Fasken Martineau, Guy is national director of the firm’s “strategic counsel” practice team, whose services include strategic communication, crisis communication and issue management, public policy advocacy, communication planning, public affairs counsel, stakeholder relations and the development of strategies in these areas, as well as expertise in election law, lobbying law and public-sector conflict-of-interest.

Guy’s website, which includes links to his many speeches and publications, is www.GuyGiorno.com.

Co-founder and front man of the Blogging Tories, Stephen Taylor has developed the conservative blogging group as an original and inventive communications tool that will shape future political debate in Canada. Taylor is also the director of scientific policy development and communications for the Manning Centre for Building Democracy and currently resides in Ottawa.

John Geddes is Maclean’s magazine’s Ottawa bureau chief. He grew up in Cochenour, Ont., a northern mining town, and has degrees from the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario. A Parliament Hill journalist since 1989, he took a break in 2002-03 to be a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. His first novel, The Sundog Season, won the 2006 Ottawa Book Award.

Bio coming soon.

Luiza Ch. Savage is the Washington bureau chief for Maclean's, covering American politics, foreign policy and Canada-US relations.

Luiza was previously a reporter for the New York Sun, the National Post and the Ottawa Citizen. She has a degree in economics from Harvard University and a master's degree from the Yale Law School.

She was born in Poland and grew up in Calgary and Ottawa, and now lives in Washington, DC. She is also Mom to Toddler Will, who makes occasional appearances in her articles and on her blog, Savage Washington.

Karl Moore is an Associate Professor at the Desautels Faculty of Management and an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Neurology & Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, both at McGill University. A former IBM manager he taught at Oxford University from 1995-2000 and came to McGill to work with Henry Mintzberg on Leadership Programs. His 9th book will come out this year.

Greg is the founder and Managing Director of Innovative Research Group Inc.(INNOVATIVE), a national public opinion research and strategy firm with offices in Toronto and Vancouver. INNOVATIVE provides critical information needed to assess and overcome public affairs and corporate communications challenges, identify and evaluate potential solutions, and monitor success.

As a former Principal Secretary, Greg has built a career at the intersection of public policy, communications and public opinion. With over 20 years of communications and opinion research experience, Greg uses a full range of research tools to provide strategic counsel to a variety of corporate clients across industries such as financial services, insurance, forestry, energy, education and health care.

Greg’s polls have been highlighted in media across the country. He has been featured in many media outlets including Global TV, The National Post and various CanWest Newspapers, the Globe and Mail, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Time Magazine and Report on Business TV’s Squeeze Play. Most recently through INNOVATIVE’s Canada 20/20 Panel, he provided ground-breaking 2006 Federal Election coverage to Maclean’s Magazine.

Scott Taylor, a former professional soldier, has been editor and publisher
of Esprit de Corps, an Ottawa-based magazine celebrated for its unflinching
scrutiny of the Canadian military, since 1988.

After exposing a number of top-level cover-ups and scandals while defending
the rights of the rank and file soldiers, Taylor was dubbed the “Voice of
the Grunts” by The Globe and Mail, a “Bone in the Brass’ Throats” by the
Toronto Star, and a “One Man Army” by the Toronto Sun.

Since the inception of Esprit de Corps, Taylor has logged over one million
air miles as a war correspondent reporting from such global hot spots as the
Persian Gulf, Cambodia, Western Sahara, Croatia, Bosnia, and most recently
from Iraq, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Azerbaijan and
Afghanistan.

Since August 2000, Taylor has made a total of 21 trips into Iraq to report
on the effects of the UN sanctions, the ravages of depleted uranium
following the 1991 Gulf War and the heightening tensions with the United
States. Following the swift U.S. victory, Taylor has returned frequently to
Iraq to view first-hand the ongoing humanitarian crisis. For five harrowing
days in September 2004, he was held captive by Ansar al-Islam mujahedeen in
northern Iraq. His release generated a wave of international media coverage.
He then returned to Iraq in 2005 in order to brief the U.S. soldiers on the
Turkmen people of the country.

Taylor regularly appears in the Canadian media as a military analyst and is
the recipient of the 1996 Quill Award for outstanding work in the field of
Canadian communications. That same year, he also won the Alexander MacKenzie
Award for journalistic excellence.

A weekly columnist for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Taylor is also a
columnist for the Osprey newspaper chain and has contributed to the Ottawa
Citizen, Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Sun, Reader’s Digest and the
Global television network as well as several international publications. He
is the author of five best-sellers.

General Lewis MacKenzie was born in Truro, Nova Scotia. He is a graduate of Xavier Junior College of Sydney, Cape Breton and the University of Manitoba. During his 36 years of military service in the Infantry he served nine years in Germany with NATO forces and managed to fit in nine peacekeeping tours of duty in six different mission areas - the Gaza Strip, Cyprus, Vietnam, Cairo, Central America and Sarajevo.

In 1990 General MacKenzie was appointed commander of the United Nations’ Observer mission in Central America. Two years later he was assigned to the UN’s Protection Force in Yugoslavia. In May of that year he created and assumed command of Sector Sarajevo and with a contingent of soldiers from 31 countries opened the Sarajevo airport for the delivery of humanitarian aid during the height of the Bosnian civil war. As a result he became the only Canadian, military or civilian, to be awarded a second Meritorious Service Cross. He retired from the Canadian Forces in 1993.

His personal account of his military experiences, Peacekeeper, Road to Sarajevo, became a number-one bestseller in 1993. A two-hour TV documentary based on the book and hosted by the general was aired internationally and won a New York film festival award in 1997

Since his retirement from the military, General MacKenzie has been under contract to CTV and CBS and frequently appears on international TV and radio networks as a commentator. He is a regular contributor to The Globe and Mail and currently chairs an international advisory board on homeland security.

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Born and raised in Brantford, Ont., Larry Campbell became a steelworker in
Hamilton in the 1960s. In his first career move, he joined the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police and was transferred to Vancouver in 1969, joining
the RCMP drug squad in 1973.

With more than twelve years experience with the RCMP, Campbell transitioned
into death investigation, establishing Vancouver's first District Coroner's
Office in 1981 and becoming the Chief Coroner for British Columbia in 1996.
In this capacity, he became the inspiration behind the popular CBC drama Da
Vinci's Inquest, as well as its spin-off, Da Vinci's City Hall. He was
intimately involved with the television programs, writing and collaborating
on scripts for the series.

A huge proponent of the Four Pillars approach to ending drug abuse, Campbell
successfully ran for Mayor in 2002 when he felt this strategy was being
neglected. Carrying on the legacy of his predecessor Philip Owen, he
spearheaded the approval and establishment of North America's first legal
safe injection site and continued to champion the Four Pillars Drug
strategy. In addition to drug and crime prevention, he was also instrumental
in the successful Vancouver bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympic and
Paralympic Games.

In August 2005, Campbell was summoned to the Senate of Canada by Prime
Minister Paul Martin. As a Senator, Campbell has continued his work on
drug policy, mental health, and aboriginal issues. In addition, he covers
the Big City Mayors Caucus for the Senate and continues to work as an
advocate for Canadian municipalities.

Danielle Smith is Director of Provincial Affairs for Alberta with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Prior to joining CFIB, Danielle had extensive experience in the media. She was an editorial writer and columnist at the Calgary Herald for six years. She also served as host of Global Sunday, a national current affairs television talk show, and was the host of two programs on CKMX 1060 AM radio in Calgary. She has made frequent guest appearances as a commentator on TV and radio. Danielle’s work in policy research began with a year-long internship at the Fraser Institute. She tried her hand at elected office as a trustee for the Calgary Board of Education and worked in advocacy as director of the Alberta Property Rights Initiative. Danielle was named one of Calgary Inc. Magazine’s Top 40 under 40 in 2004.

Robert Silver is a Toronto based energy lawyer, entrepreneur and consultant. Robert currently advises energy companies looking to build clean electricity projects in Ontario. He has been involved in projects that have brought more 2,000 megawatts of clean and renewable energy to Ontario. He has also been involved in a number of innovative conservation and energy efficiency projects. Robert is a highly sought after speaker on energy, infrastructure and environment issues.

An active federal and provincial Liberal, Robert was Gerard Kennedy's National Policy Director during last year's Liberal Leadership Campaign. Prior to returning to the private sector, Robert worked for Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty as a special policy advisor. Robert received his law degree from the University of Western Ontario where he won two North American and two Canadian National Debating Championships.

Gerry Nicholls is a political commentator whose columns and op-eds have appeared in several Canadian newspapers including The Globe and Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star. Gerry is also a frequent guest on TV and radio public affair programs. He was formerly vice president of the National Citizens Coalition.

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Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of The Council of Canadians, Canada's largest citizens' advocacy organization with members and chapters across Canada. She is also the co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, which works to stop commodification of the world's water, and a director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco based research and education institution opposed to economic globalization.

Maude is also a fellow with the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies; a board member of Food and Water Watch, the national U.S. organization fighting for public control of water; and a founding member of the European-based World Future Council.

Maude was the recipient of the "2005/06 Lannan Cultural Freedom Fellowship". Most recently, she received the prestigious "2005 Right Livelihood Award" given by the Swedish Parliament and widely referred to as "The Alternative Nobel."

She is the best-selling author or co-author of fifteen books. Her most recent publications are Too Close For Comfort: Canada's Future Within Fortress North America and Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the World's Water(with Tony Clarke), now available in 16 languages and 47 countries around the world. Currently, Maude is writing a new book on the global fight for the right to water -- to be published fall 2007.

Sujit Choudhry holds the Scholl Chair at the Faculty of Law, and is cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science, and the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. He holds law degrees from Oxford, Toronto, and Harvard. Professor Choudhry served as law clerk to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer of the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Choudhry is one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars. He is the author of over forty articles, book chapters and reports.

He was a consultant to the Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada(the Romanow Commission)and the National Advisory Committee on SARS and Public Health(the Naylor Committee), the World Bank Institute at the World Bank, and was a member of a team of foreign constitutional experts on mission to Sri Lanka working with the Forum of Federations and the Centre for Policy Alternatives in support of the Sri Lankan peace process. He was a member of the Governing Toronto Advisory Panel which proposed major reforms to the structure of municipal government in Toronto. He appeared as counsel for Human Rights Watch in the Charkaoui(security certificate)appeal. He currently sits on the Board of Directors of Legal Aid Ontario.

Tom Flanagan is the only person ever to have lived in both Ottawa, Illinois, and Ottawa, Ontario. Born and educated in the United States, he immigrated to Canada in 1968. He is professor of political science at the University of Calgary and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In the years 2001-06, Tom held various positions for Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada - including chief of staff, campaign manager and political adviser.

The Honourable John Manley is Senior Counsel at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, where he provides strategic advice in matters relating to public affairs, including trade, telecommunications, security and finance. He is also consulted by clients on matters concerning foreign governments. Mr. Manley was first elected to Parliament as a Liberal in 1988 and re-elected three times. From 1993 to 2000 he served as Minister of Industry and also as Minister for each of three regional economic development departments of the federal government. Mr. Manley served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2002. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, he was named Chairman of a new Cabinet Committee on Public Security and Anti-terrorism and counterpart to US Homeland Security Chief, Governor Tom Ridge. For the role he played following 9/11, he was named TIME Canada Magazine's "Newsmaker of the Year" in December 2001. In January 2002, Mr. Manley was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Political Minister for Ontario, Minister of Infrastructure and Crown Corporations and Chairman of the principal Cabinet committees. He added the role of Finance Minister in June 2002 and presented the Government's federal budget in February 2003. After leaving the federal Cabinet, Mr. Manley advised the Ontario Minister of Energy on the future of the provincially owned electrical power generation company. He also co-chaired an independent Task Force on the future of North America for the Council on Foreign Relations.

Steve Paikin is anchor and senior editor of The Agenda with Steve Paikin - TVOntario's flagship current affairs program, which airs weeknights at 8 p.m. The program debuted on September 25, 2006. Its mission is to cover the provincial, national, and international issues viewers must know to be well-informed citizens of Ontario at the dawn of the 21st century. Previously, Paikin was co-host of Studio 2, which lasted 12 seasons, and Diplomatic Immunity, which lasted 8 seasons - both on TVO. In October 2001, he wrote his first book, The Life: The Seductive Call of Politics. In October 2003, Penguin published his second book, The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life, which chronicled some of the horror stories of politics. In March 2005, his third book appeared: Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts - a biography of Ontario's 17th premier.

Allan Rock is a former member of the federal cabinet, where he served as justice and health minister, and a former Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. He now practices law with the firm Sutts, Strosberg, LLP, with offices in Windsor and Toronto.

A native of Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick, Joël-Denis Bellavance has been the Ottawa bureau chief for La Presse since September 2003 and has been covering Parliament Hill since 1994. After completing his journalism studies at Carleton University in 1990, Bellavance worked for Le Droit in Ottawa for four years. He has also worked for the Canadian Press, Le Soleil in Quebec City and the National Post. Bellavance is married and has two children, ages four-and-a-half and two. He lives in Gatineau, in the Outaouais region.

John Duffy is a principal at StrategyCorp, assisting corporations, trade associations, unions and community organizations in dealing with all levels of government. A well-known federal and provincial Liberal activist, he served as a senior national campaign strategist for Prime Minister Paul Martin. A bestselling author, John is founder of climateliberal.ca, which is aimed at making the climate crisis the number one priority of the Liberal Party of Canada.

Mercedes Stephenson is the host and producer of the national television series The URC Investigates on iChannel.

A national media commentator on defence and security affairs, she has worked extensively with national and international news outlets such as the CBC, CTV and Global Television. She has also been featured in Maclean's and Saturday Night and written for Chatelaine Magazine as well as several other major print publications.

Mercedes worked for the Pentagon while studying public policy economics and media ethics at Georgetown University. She wrote, produced and reported news spots for SRTV and the Pentagon. In recognition of her work, The Institute for Political Journalism and Georgetown University presented her with the Frank Shakespeare Award for Broadcast Journalism. She was also presented with the Secretary of the Army’s Gold Coin for excellence in military broadcasting for her work with US Army Headquarters.

Mercedes has studied the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the MIT Working Group on Combating Catastrophic Terrorism at the Center for International Studies. She has also served as a policy analyst and author for prominent national think tanks in Canada and as a Koch Fellow in Defense and National Security Policy in the United States. She is also past president(2001-2004)of the Society for Military and Strategic Studies.

Steve Maich is a senior editor and columnist with Maclean's, focusing on issues of business and economics. Before joining the magazine in 2004, Steve was a markets reporter and columnist with the Financial Post, and before that covered the media and telecom industries for Bloomberg News. He has received several awards for his work, including the 2005 National Magazine Award for commentary.

Glen Murray joined Navigator as a partner, and leader of its AuthentiCity practice in 2005. Authenticity is Canada’s first full-service urban management consulting practice, specializing in economic development, creative cities strategies and inter-governmental expertise.
As a former Mayor of Winnipeg, Glen’s vision is anchored in practical and very successful experience on the Council floor and with other governments. He won wide praise for his work with business and union leaders, in partnership with other mayors and all levels of government, and alongside Canada’s cultural community.
His vision for a New Deal for Cities started with the formation of the C5 – a coalition of five Canadian cities. It was during that time that he became the first Chair of the Big City Mayors Caucus 2002. His New Deal concepts were first tested with the Winnipeg electorate in his successful mayoral campaigns, and have gone on to be the “roadmap” for Canadian cities. As a result, he is an internationally recognized speaker and writer on urban issues.
Glen is the recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee medal and an honourary member of the Royal Architectural Society. He is Chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy - the leading policy advisor to the Government of Canada on a wide array of economical and environmental challenges.
Glen served the University of Toronto as Senior Visiting Scholar and an Urban Policy Coordinator following his terms as mayor and has now made Toronto his home. He sits as a member of the Task Force on Creativity and the Public Service for the Government of Canada.

John Reynolds’ political career began in 1972, when he was elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for the British Columbia riding of Burnaby-Richmond-Delta. He was re-elected in the 1974 general election. Following his tenure as an elected official, Mr. Reynolds pursued work in the private sector and hosted one of British Columbia's leading radio talk shows. Mr. Reynolds began his provincial government political career in 1983, elected as Member of the Legislative Assembly for British Columbia for the riding of West Vancouver-Howe Sound. He was re-elected in 1986 and elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly on March 9, 1987, a post he served with distinction until his appointment to cabinet in 1989 as Environment Minister. Following the 1991 provincial election, Mr. Reynolds moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. In 1997. he returned to British Columbia and on June 2, 1997, he was again elected to the House of Commons as a Reform Party MP for the riding of West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast. While a member of the Canadian Alliance and Conservative Party caucuses, Mr. Reynolds repeatedly served as the Official Opposition House leader. And he served as Leader of the Opposition in the House prior to Stephen Harper’s assumption of that role. In January 2004, Mr. Reynolds co-chaired Stephen Harper’s successful Conservative party leadership campaign. In January 2005, he stepped aside as Official Opposition House Leader after deciding not to seek re-election. He then served as co-chair of the national Conservative Party campaign for the 2006 federal election, in which Stephen Harper was elected Prime Minister. In March 2006, he was appointed as a Senior Strategic Advisor to Lang Michener law firm in Vancouver. He is married to Yvonne and they have seven children and nine grandchildren.

John Williamson was appointed federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation(http://www.taxpayer.com/)in January 2004. He joined the organization in September 2002 as provincial director in Ontario. Prior to joining the CTF, John worked at the National Post as an editorial writer and a member of the paper’s Editorial Board. His writing focused primarily on tax and social policy, government spending and parliamentary reform. John was born and raised in New Brunswick. He studied economics and government at McGill University in Montreal. After graduation, employment with a financial institution took him to Toronto and Hong Kong.

Tasha Kheiriddin is one of Canada’s leading young right-of-centre thinkers and activists. In November 2005 she published her first book, Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, co-authored with journalist Adam Daifallah. The book became a best-seller and several of its key public policy recommendations have been put into practice by the current Conservative government. Born and raised in Montreal, Tasha is a graduate of Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf and McGill University, where she earned her BCL and LLB in 1993. After practicing civil and commercial litigation in Montreal, she moved to Toronto to work as legislative assistant to the Attorney General of Ontario. She also served as president of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation of Canada from 1995-98. Tasha subsequently became a television producer with CBC Newsworld and later a host and producer with the Cable Public Affairs Channel in Ottawa, where she was awarded the Justicia Award for Excellence in Journalism by the Canadian Bar Association in 2003. Tasha then worked as Ontario Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. She subsequently became Vice President of the Montreal Economic Institute, a Montreal-based free-market think tank, where she served until September 2006. Tasha now resides in Montreal. She is currently a sessional lecturer, teaching a course on Canadian conservatism at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. She is also writing her second book, about the relationship between economic systems and human behaviour.

The author of two books, Scott Feschuk served as chief speechwriter to the Right Honourable Paul Martin during Martin's time as Prime Minister. Scott has written for The Globe and Mail, the National Post and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and currently writes a column and blog for Maclean's. He is also a partner in the speechwriting and communications firm Feschuk.Reid(www.feschuk-reid.com), which is based in Ottawa and Toronto.

Andrew Potter writes a column on public affairs for Maclean's. Andrew has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and has taught at Trent University and UQAM. He is the co-author of the bestselling book The Rebel Sell, and is working on a new book about the culture of authenticity. In 2006 he was a visiting scholar with the Educational Policy Institute in Toronto. Andrew blogs for Macleans.ca about Canadian politics, other countries' politics, consumer culture, education and hockey.

Megan Harris is a corporate communications and public affairs professional with over 10 years experience, providing strategic communications advice to CEO’s, senior executives, cabinet ministers, government officials and community leaders. She has represented clients in the pharmaceutical, transportation, agricultural, manufacturing, information technology, academic and non-for profit sectors.

In the 2004 federal election, Harris was the Conservative Party of Canada candidate in Toronto-Centre.

She hosted two television shows: Let’s Talk and @issue, both on the IChannel. Her guests included: Conrad Black, Sally Armstrong, and Jack Granatstein. She is a frequent speaker on public affairs, the participation of young people in politics and diversity. A former member of the University of Toronto’s G8 Research Group who has attended several G8 summits., she has provided analysis for CBC Newsworld and published opinion pieces in several newspapers and magazines.

Harris is a founding Champion and mentor for the Mentoring Partnership(TRIEC), former Vice-Chair of the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy and board member for Gilda’s Club. She is a former director for Horizons for Youth, The Couchiching Institute for Public Affairs, Green Power Canada and Equal Voice. She was an advisor to the Conference Board of Canada Study Toward Maximizing the Talents of Visible Minorities and its companion guide Business Critical: Maximizing the Talents of Visible Minorities.

Barry Cooper, FRSC, a fourth generation Albertan, was educated at Shawnigan Lake School, the University of British Columbia and Duke University(PhD, 1969). He taught at Bishop's University, McGill, and York University before coming to the University of Calgary in 1981.

He has written over 20 books, most recently(with Lydia Miljan)Hidden Agendas: How Canadian Journalists Influence the News published by UBC Press(2003)and New Political Religions: An Analysis of Modern Terrorism(the University of Missouri Press, 2004). He publishes a weekly column in the Calgary Herald and other CanWest Global papers.

Bio coming soon.

Akaash Maharaj is CEO of Equine Canada, the national governing body for Olympic, international, and national equestrianism.

He has previously served as National Policy Chair of the Liberal Party of Canada, as a member of the party's governing National Executive, and as one of the authors of the Red Book platform.

Akaash took his degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Oxford, where he also served as President of the Oxford University Student Union.

In his leisure time, Akaash is an avid equestrian athlete, and captains Canada's national equestrian skill-at-arms team. At the recent 2008 world championships, he brought home three gold medals
and one bronze out of the four team disciplines.

A committed volunteer, he works on UNICEF's campaign against child labour and childhood HIV, he teaches adult literacy, and he acts as a Director to a number of philanthropic and community boards.

Akaash's personal web site is http://www.maharaj.org/.

Jennifer Welsh holds a Masters and Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar, and is currently a Professor in International Relations and a Fellow of Somerville College. In addition to her academic career, she has been a consultant with McKinsey and Co. and a partner in d-Code, a research and strategy firm focused on the “Nexus Generation”. She is the author of four books and a series of articles on international relations, and is co-author of Chips and Pop: Decoding the Nexus Generation. A frequent commentator on Canadian foreign policy and international affairs for The Globe and Mail and CBC, Jennifer is a member of the Banff Forum and the International Institute of Strategic Studies. In 2005, she was the Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto, and in 2006 was named a Trudeau Fellow. She currently sits on the Board of Trustees of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation.

Peter Harder is Senior Policy Advisor to Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP. Prior to joining FMC, he was the longest serving Deputy Minister in the Government of Canada. He served as the most senior public servant in a number of federal departments - including Treasury Board, Solicitor General, Citizenship and Immigration, Industry and Foreign Affairs and International Trade.

In 2000, the Governor General presented Peter with the Prime Minister's Outstanding Achievement Award for public service leadership. He currently sits on the Board of Governors for the University of Ottawa and is a founding member of the North American Security Forum - a private sector initiative to promote security and economic cooperation.

As Maclean's managing editor, special projects, Tony Keller oversees projects such as the annual Maclean's University Rankings issue, the Guide to Canadian Universities, the University Student issue and a new issue coming this fall, on graduate and professional schools.

From 1999 to 2004, he was founding editor of National Post Business(now known as Financial Post Business)and the redacteur en chef of a French-language spin-off, le Financial Post. A bilingual native of Montreal, he began his career at The Globe and Mail, where he was an editorial writer, columnist and editorial page editor. He has also been a columnist for the Toronto Star.

He holds a B.A. in history and political science from Duke University, and a Master of Studies in Law from Yale. In 2004-05, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Jack M. Mintz is Professor of Business Economics and director of the International Tax Program, Institute of International Business, both at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He serves on the boards of Brookfield Asset Management, CHC Helicopter Corporation, Imperial Oil Limited, Ontario Financing Authority, and several public and non-profit organizations. He is a research fellow of CESifo, Munich, Germany and the Centre for Business Taxation, Oxford University, UK.

He is a regular contributor to the academic literature and print media. In 2002, Dr. Mintz’s book, Most Favored Nation: A Framework for Smart Economic Policy, was winner of the Purvis Prize for best book in economic policy and runner-up for Donner Prize for best book in public policy.

Dr. Mintz was the President and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute from 1999-2006, and Clifford Clark Visiting Economist at the Department of Finance, Ottawa, as well as Chair of the federal government’s Technical Committee on Business Taxation in 1996 and 1997. He was recently named as the 27th most influential tax expert in the world by the UK Magazine, Tax Business.

As the President and CEO of SES Research, Mr. Nanos is one of Canada’s most respected public opinion pollsters.

In the 2006 National Election in Canada he predicted the results of the federal election to within one-tenth of one percentage point for the four major parties.

He is the official pollster for CPAC, Canada's Political Channel, the Osprey Media Group(a chain of 51 newspapers in Ontario)and the Rogers Radio Network. His commentary and analysis have appeared in virtually all of Canada's major media outlets. They have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom and in The Economist.

He is the Past National President of the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association(MRIA)- Canada’s industry association which governs and accredits over 260 research organizations and over 1,700 research professionals.

Apart from his work analyzing public opinion and conducting market research, he is regularly called upon to provide expert advice for complex litigations before the courts ranging from trademark cases through to personal and corporate reputation issues.

Personal blog: www.nikonthenumbers.com
SES Research: www.sesresearch.com