Event Details:

United Nations Association in Canada

To launch UNA-Canada’s 2009 Annual General Meeting, you are invited to attend a Public Panel Discussion on:  Canada's Campaign for a UN Security Council Seat - "Slam-dunk or Long Shot?”

A look at the risks and challenges that are inherent, both in the campaign to win a non-permanent seat in the next elections (in the fall of 2010) and during a two-year term itself.

Speakers:

Chair: Allan Gotlieb Senior Advisor (Toronto) Bennett Jones LLP and former Deputy Minister, Foreign Affairs
Panelists: Yves Fortier Chairman Emeritus Ogilvy Renault (Montréal) and former Canadian Ambassador to the UN (1988-1991)

Paul Heinbecker Distinguished Research Fellow at CIGI and former diplomat (including Cdn Amb to the UN 2000-2003)

Bob Rae Liberal Foreign Affairs Critic and former President, Forum of the Federations, Olivia Ward Toronto Star writer on foreign affairs, beginning with the United Nations in the late 1980s.

Admission: $10.00 ($5.00 for students) Payable at the door
RSVP, and for further information, contact: Joan Broughton
613-232-5751 ext 230 or joan.broughton@unac.org

Website http://www.carleton.ca/npsia/whats_new/calendar/june_events.htm#harper
Speaker Name Various Speakers
Location Name The Westin Hotel, Governor General Ballroom III
Address 11 Colonel By Drive
City Ottawa
Province/State Ontario
Country Canada
Contact Name Joan Broughton
Contact Phone 613-232-5751 ext 230
Contact Email joan.broughton@unac.org