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Paul Gérin-Lajoie was President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). He was born in Montreal in 1920, and studied at Université de Montreal and Oxford University.

In this Dunning Trust event, Louis Applebaum gave a short address, followed by a reply from Harold Town. The event revolved primarily around the question of how to create an environment to support the arts and artists in Canada, including government subsidies and funding for the arts.

Eric Kierans was a Canadian economist, politician, and businessman. After graduating from Loyola College and McGill University, he was director of McGill’s School of Commerce from 1953-1960, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange from 1960-1963, and minister and postmaster general of Canada from 1968-1971. In addition to serving in Pierre Eliot Trudeau’s first cabinet, he was Minister of Revenue (1963-1965) and Minister of Health (1965-1966) in Jean Lesage’s government.

John White was a Progressive Conservative politician. He was a provincial cabinet minister in Ontario and Member of Provincial Parliament for London South from 1959 to 1975.

Keith Spicer is a Canadian public servant, academic, journalist, and author. From 1970-77, Spicer was the first Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada.

William Irwin Thompson was an American social philosopher, cultural critic, and poet. He was professor of humanities at MIT and later at York University.