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CCF Board of Directors and Advisory Board

CCF Board of Directors

Chris Schafer, Executive Director, Canadian Constitution Foundation

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Dr. Glenn Fox, Professor, University of Guelph 

   

Claus Jensen

   

Will Johnston, MD 

   

Lisa La Horey, Partner, McCague Borlack LLP

   
 
Mark Mitchell, Vancouver businessman
Chairman
   

Dr. Michael Walker,  Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute

Michael Walker

 Dr. Michael Walker is a Senior Fellow at The Fraser Institute and President of the Free Market Research Foundation. From 1974 until 2005, he directed the research activities of the Fraser Institute as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this Dr. Walker taught at the Universities of Western Ontario and Carleton and was employed at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Department of Finance. Michael Walker has authored or edited 45 books on various economic topics and has been published in numerous professional journals throughout the world. He has also written editorial pieces for many prominent newspapers in both Canada and the United States. Dr. Walker received his Ph.D. in Econometrics at the University of Western Ontario and his B.A. at St. Francis Xavier University. He is married and has two children and three grandchildren. In his spare time he enjoys windsurfing and tennis and is a licensed pilot of both airplanes and seaplanes.


CCF Advisory Board

Avril Allen,  Associate, Boghosian and Associates

Dr. Thomas Bateman,  Professor, St. Thomas University

Dr. Ehor Boyanowsky,  Professor, Simon Fraser University

 
Dr. Russell Brown,  Professor, University of Alberta
Russell Brown Russ Brown is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) at the University of Alberta.
 
Andrew Coyne, Columnist, National Post

Andy Crooks

Michel Kelly-Gagnon,  President, Montreal Economic Institute

Michel Kelly-Gagnon After having been head of the Montreal Economic Institute from 1999 to 2006, Michel Kelly-Gagnon was president of the Quebec Employers Council until January 2009. He graduated in law from the Université de Montréal. Early in his career he practiced law with Colas & Associates in Montreal, and then went into business as an associate of Formatrad, a company specializing in employee training. Mr. Kelly-Gagnon is actively involved in the board of directors of the Fondation universitaire Pierre Arbour and the John W. Dobson Foundation. He returned to the Montreal Economic Institute in January 2009.

Dr. Rainer Knopff,  Professor, University of Calgary

Rainer Knopff A Professor of Political Science at the University of Calgary, Rainer Knopff has written widely in the areas of public law, human rights, and Canadian political thought. His books include The Charter Revolution and the Court Party and Charter Politics (both with F.L. Morton), Human Rights and Social Technology: The New War on Discrimination (with T.E. Flanagan), and Parameters of Power: Canada’s Political Institutions (with Keith Archer, Roger Gibbins, and Leslie A. Pal). He is currently pursuing projects on land use and hunting policy, and on current Canadian constitutional politics. Visit his website.

Bruce Pardy,  Professor, Queens University

Bruce Pardy Bruce Pardy is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University. He has taught environmental law at law schools in Canada, the United States and New Zealand, and written extensively on environmental governance, including ecosystem management, climate change, water law and environmental liability. Before becoming an academic, Professor Pardy was a litigation lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto. He presently sits on the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal as an adjudicator and mediator.