Canada Seminar

Date: 

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room (SO30), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

Democracy in America (and Canada, and Europe and Everywhere) Revisited

The Honorable Bob Rae
Distinguished Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Governance (SPGG), University of Toronto

Bob Rae is a senior partner at Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP, where he works with First Nations across Canada as legal counsel, advisor, and negotiator. He served as Ontario's 21st Premier from 1990 to 1995 and Interim Federal Leader of the Liberal Party in 2011- 2013. He was named Queen's Counsel in 1984, appointed to the Privy Council of Canada in 1998, named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000, received the Order of Ontario in 2004 and Companion of the Order of Canada in 2015.‎ In addition to his legal practice, Bob teaches at the University of Toronto as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Governance (SPPG). He has also written five books, most recently "What's Happened to Politics". He has a regular column in the Globe and Mail and also does ADR work with ADR Chambers.