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Robin Bourne was Assistant Deputy Minister of the Police and Security Planning and Analysis Branch at the Ministry of the Solicitor General from 1971-1979.

Hugh McCullum was an activist and journalist. He was born and raised in the Yukon.

George Rudé was a researcher and writer, author of 15 books, and editor of many others.

Kimon Valaskakis was an academic, an executive, a consultant, and a diplomat. He was a professor of economics at the University of Montreal for more than 30 years and Ambassador of Canada to the OECD from 1995-1999. He was also president of the Club of Athens, an international initiative involving world leaders from the public and private sectors, and senior advisor to the G8 Research Group. He headed the Gamma Institute at McGill, an international think tank specializing in forecasting and planning studies.

Joseph Clark is a former Prime Minister of Canada. As PM from from June 1979 to March 1980, he was the youngest person ever to be elected to the office.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British writer, economist, and historian. After the Second World War, he taught history at the University of Liverpool before being appoint Raffles Professor of History at the new University of Malaya, where he remained from 1950-1958.

This panel was the second part of a series beginning with Northcote Parkinson’s lecture. Three Canadians, from Newfoundland, Ojibwe-Cree territory, and the Prairies, met to discuss the aspirations of their own regions and the position of regionalism and federalism in Canada. The panel encouraged the audience to think deeply about what things really hold a country and a people together amid growing regionalist tensions in Canada.

Peter Slater was born in England and raised in Myanmar, Australia, and Canada. He received degrees in philosophy and theology from McGill, Cambridge, and Harvard. At the time of his talk, he was Dean Emeritus of Divinity at Trinity College at the University of Toronto. Slater was also a former member of the Partners in World Mission Committee of the Anglican Church. He was the author of Religion and Culture in Canada (1978) and co-editor of Traditions in Contact and Change (2006).

Michael Novak was an American Roman Catholic philosopher, journalist, novelist, and diplomat. He authored and edited more than 50 books, including The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1982), which was translated and distributed by underground presses in the USSR in the 1980s. Novak’s books, columns, lectures, and articles addressed topics from the battle between capitalism and socialism, human rights, faith, labour history, ethnicity, peace, justice, welfare reform, and the social and political roles of churches.

Klaus Klostermaier was University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Manitoba, where he began working in 1970. He was born in Munich, Germany, but lived in India for almost 10 years as a missionary and theology teacher. He first received a PhD in philosophy from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1961. He then received a doctorate in Ancient Indian History and Culture in 1969 from the University of Bombay.