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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
  • 9.10 Updates
  • 9.15 Introduction of Speaker - TBD
  • 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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