Upcoming Events

Date: Thursday 20 May 2010

Speaker: Louise Arbour, President and CEO of The International Crisis Group

Venue: The Reform Club.

Canadian Louise Arbour is President & CEO of the Brussels-based International Crisis Group, the world's leading independent, non-partisan source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies such as the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict.

Previously Ms.Arbour was United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2004 to 2008 and before that, Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In 1999, she was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Louise Arbour has a unique perspective on the world and a unique role in some of the most important issues of our day. We are thrilled that she has agreed to address The Canada Club. Several Board Members of the International Crisis Group will also join us on the night.

Tickets will go on sale in February 2010.

*****

Looking ahead - The Canada Club Bicentennial Dinner: provisionally scheduled for 20 October 2010 Exact date and details to be announced in June 2010.

Previous Events

2009 Dinners ( both sold out):

* 8 July 2009 - Michael Ignatieff MP, Leader of Her Majesty’s Official Opposition, Ottawa. Venue: The National Liberal Club

* 7 October - Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO, Research in Motion and Founder and Director, The Perimeter Institite for Theoretical Physics . Venue: The Royal Society

Past Canada Club speakers have included every Canadian Prime Minister from the first, Sir John A. MacDonald, to the current Prime Minister, Stephen Harper as well as many British and international speakers in the fields of public affairs, cultural debate and science and innovation.