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.
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.
Read the full report published on May 24, 2022.
Task Force Membership
Thomas Juneau – Co-chair, Associate Professor, GSPIA
Vincent Rigby – Co-chair, former National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister; Senior Fellow, Norman Paterson School of Public and International Affairs, Carleton University
Margaret Bloodworth – Honorary Senior Fellow, GSPIA, former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and former Deputy Minister of National Defence
Kerry Buck – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Ambassador to NATO
Madelaine Drohan – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Economist correspondent in Canada
Ward Elcock – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and former Deputy Minister of National Defence
Richard Fadden – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, former Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and former Deputy Minister of National Defence
Masud Husain – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates and Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
Daniel Jean – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister and former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Margaret McCuaig-Johnston – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Executive Vice-President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
John McNee – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Ambassador to the United Nations
Roland Paris –Director, GSPIA; former Senior Advisor on Global Affairs and Defence to the Prime Minister
Morris Rosenberg – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nada Semaan – Senior Fellow, GSPIA; former Director and Chief Executive Officer of FINTRAC
Research Assistant: Fernando Aguilar