Membership

April 2001

Chair

Mr. Arthur Kroeger, (bilingual) Chancellor of Carleton University. Arthur Kroeger was appointed Carleton University Chancellor in 1993, and reappointed for a second term in 1998. His appointment follows a distinguished career in the public service of Canada which spanned more than three decades and included a wide range of senior appointments. He has often been referred to as the "Dean of Deputy Ministers", having served in that role for six key federal departments including Indian Affairs (1975-79); Transport Canada (1979-83); Regional Industrial Expansion (1985-86); Energy, Mines and Resources (1986-88); and Employment and Immigration Canada (1988-92). He retired from the public service in 1992 and since then has been teaching, and serving as a consultant and a frequent media commentator. He was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1989, and Companion of the Order of Canada in 2000. Mr. Kroeger completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Alberta. He was named a Rhodes scholar and obtained a master's degree from Oxford University.

Panelists

The Hon. Mr. Justice Harry LaForme, Superior Court of Justice, Province of Ontario. Mr. Justice LaForme is a member of the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation in southern Ontario. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1977 and was called to the Bar in 1979. After practicing corporate commercial law, Justice LaForme opened his own practice, concentrating on issues involving Aboriginal law. In 1989, he was appointed, through the joint orders-in-council of Ontario and Canada, as Commissioner of the Indian Commission of Ontario. In 1991, Justice LaForme was appointed by the federal cabinet to chair the Royal Commission on Aboriginal land claims known as the Indian Claims Commission. He has also taught the Rights of Indigenous Peoples law course at Osgoode Hall Law School and has served as co-chair on the independent National Chiefs Task Force on Native Land Claims. In January 1994, Justice LaForme was appointed a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice (General Division), now the Superior Court of Justice, Ontario. He currently sits in the Toronto region and has his chambers in Toronto.

Dr. Paul LeBlond, (bilingual) Pacific Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (PFRCC). Dr. LeBlond holds a Ph.D. in physics and oceanography from the University of British Columbia. Following a post-doctoral fellowship in Germany, Dr. LeBlond served as Professor of Oceanography and Physics at the University of British Columbia until his retirement in 1996. He is now active in a variety of local, national and international ocean science and conservation forums. Before joining the PFRCC, Dr. LeBlond was one of the original members of the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council for Atlantic Canada. He chairs the Science Advisory Council of Fisheries and Oceans Canada as well as the Science and Industry Advisory Board of the Institute for Pacific Ocean Science and Technology. Dr. LeBlond is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Prof. Martha Jackman, (bilingual) Professor, Faculty of Law (French Common Law Section), University of Ottawa. Professor Jackman has written and published extensively on constitutional and equality rights issues, with particular focus on social and economic rights. She has been actively involved in continuing legal and judicial education, litigation and other law reform activities at the local and national level. She is the Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit, and a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.