Presented by CIPS and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

The University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) has formed a Task Force on National Security to evaluate the changing security environment facing Canada and how best to respond. The group is co-chaired by GSPIA Professor Thomas Juneau and Vincent Rigby, who until recently was National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister. Four of the Task Force’s members are former National Security Advisors to the Prime Minister. Others have served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Ambassadors to NATO, to the United Arab Emirates, and to the United Nations; Director and CEO of the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC); Director of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS); Senior Advisor on Global Affairs and Defence in the Prime Minister’s Office; Executive Vice-President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council; and The Economist’s former correspondent in Canada. Nearly all are professors or senior fellows of GSPIA. During this event, the co-chairs will discuss the report produced by the task force report, released on the same day.

Speakers:
Vincent Rigby is a senior fellow with the Norman Paterson School of Internal Affairs at Carleton University and a non-resident senior advisor with the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC.

Thomas Juneau is associate professor at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.