25th ANNUAL HUMANITARIAN GALA DINNER TO BENEFIT OXFAM: THE PASTORAL WOMEN'S COUNCIL in TANZANIA
http://www.pastoralwomenscouncil.org/
SPEAKER: Senator Hugh Segal CM (Canada)
TOPIC: Democracy, human rights and the Commonwealth: the Art of the Possible
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 - 6:00 for 7:00 p.m.
At the SHERATON HOTEL, 150 ALBERT STREET, OTTAWA
Hugh Segal joined the Canadian Senate in 2005, after four decades of public service that included being chief of staff to the Prime Minister of Canada, legislative assistant to the leader of the federal Opposition, and president of the independent Institute for Research on Public Policy. He is a former chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism and the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
A University of Ottawa graduate in history, Senator Segal is a senior fellow at the Queen's University School of Policy Studies and School of Business, and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute. He is a member of the Working Group on National Security at Cranfield University's Centre for Security Sector Management in the United Kingdom. He chaired the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies and was the founding vice chair (research) of the Canadian International Council. He sits on the Council of the International Institute for Democratic and Electoral Assistance in Stockholm. In 2010, he was appointed by the Commonwealth Secretary-General to the Eminent Persons Group, which completed its mandate in October 2011 at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia. In December, 2011, he was appointed as Canada's special envoy for Commonwealth renewal.
COST: $85.00 per person (Includes wine with dinner)
THERE WILL BE A TAX RECEIPT OF $20
TICKETS: Please call Joy Tilsley at 613-747-7318 or e-mail at rcsca@magma.ca.
VALET PARKING at the hotel is $6.00 after 6 p.m.