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DATE:
March 20, 2010
WHERE:
Biagio’s Italian Kitchen
1394 Richmond Road (Side Door at Croydon)
Ph: 613-828-0770
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GUEST SPEAKER:
André Drouin
COST:
Members - $15.00 per person
Guests - $20.00 per person
Please confirm your attendance as soon as possible to Monique Buckle at monique.raymond-buckle@POGGtalk.org
Ph: 613-820-3189
If you do not receive a reply e-mail stating 'Confirmed', please contact us again.
PROGRAM:
- 8.20 Register, Meet and Greet - Coffee; Tea; Juices; Fruit Salad; Yogurt
- 8.40 Call to Breakfast – Welcome
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9.10 Updates
- 9.15 Introduction of Speaker - TBD
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9.20 Speaker: André Drouin
Topic: Reasonable Accommodation - Visitors, Colonizers, or New Canadians?
- 9.55 Discussion and Q & A
- 10.40 Announcements & Adjournment
SPEAKER INFO:
André Drouin is city councilor in Herouxville, Quebec, and a Canadian values activist. He is well known as the author of the 2007 Hérouxville Standards, a document which sparked a national debate on reasonable accommodation for cultural and religious diversity. Some of his writings can be found on www.vigile.net.
Note: A condition of admission to a POGG meeting is that all attendees agree that the meeting is in camera and that no public attribution is to be made of any remarks, comments and discussion content, and that any related papers, documents, etc. produced at a meeting will similarly not be identified or attributed.
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Past Programs
Too many Canadians: Does Canada already have a population problem?
Speaker: Madeline Weld, toxicologist evaluator and author on polulation issues.
Presentation: Word | RTF | PDF
February 2010
How to thrive and survive Economic Winter from the perspective of Nicolai Kondratieff
Speaker: John Budden, international financial adviser.
January 2010
Afghanistan, Pakistan and India - Truths & Probabilities
Speaker: David Van Praagh, reporter and commentator.
December 20009
What I Learned During My 15 Years as a Judge of the Federal Court of Canada
Speaker: The Honorable John Richard, Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Appeal (retired).
November 20009
Canada - The View from Here
Speaker: Derek Fildebrandt, National Research Director, Canadian Taxpayers' Federation.
October 20009
Human Rights Commissions - kangaroo courts or necessities?
Speaker: Richard Belec, Ph.D., Chairman, Centre for Excellence in Ethics and Integrity, and a consultant and educator in values and ethics.
September 2009
Governance
Speaker: Bob Plamondon, author, historian, consultant and public policy analyst.
April 2009
Talking Politics
Speaker: Mira Sucharov, Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University.
March 2009
Islamist Infiltration and the Enemy Within
Speaker: David Harris, Director of International and Terrorist Intelligence Program, INSIGNIS Strategic Research Inc.
February 2009
Columns, stories, and people
Speaker: Dave Brown, columnist and journalist, Ottawa Journal and Ottawa Citizen
January 2009
The Thickening of the Border
Speaker: Patrick Grady, former senior official in the federal Department of Finance
December 2008
A Politician Remembers (the Cornwall Sexual Abuse Scandal and Proceedings)
Speaker: Garry Guzzo, retired Ontario Superior Court Justice and Ontario MPP
November 2008
The Fall and Rise of Ethics in Public and Corporate Life
Speaker: Allan Cutler, Sponsorship Scandal whistleblower, consultant, President of Canadians for Accountability
October 2008
Municipalities of the 21st Century
Speaker: The Hon. Jim Watson
September 2008
A critique of the UN Report on Global Warming
Speaker: Tom Hill, scientist
August 2008
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