Couchiching History Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Summer Conference 2009 Summer Conference 2008 Summer Conference 2007 Summer Conference 2006 Summer Conference 2005 Summer Conference 2004 Summer Conference 2003 Summer Conference 2002 Summer Conference 2001 Summer Conference 2000 Summer Conference 1999 Couch-West Mini-Conference, May 1999 Winter Conference 1999 Summer Conference 1998 Summer Conference 1997 Summer Conference 1996 Winter Conference 1995 Summer Conference 1995 Summer Conference 1994 Summer Conference 1993 Summer Conference 1992 Summer Conference 1991 Conferences before Summer 1991		Advanced Search Couchiching Award for Public Policy Leadership Escott Reid, Couchiching, and the Birth of NATO, an Atlantic Council Member’s Paper by Cameron Campbell Copyright © 2008 Couchiching Institute on Public Affairs All rights reserved.
Summer Conference 2009		The Global Politics of Food
Burton, Ian Clapp, Jennifer Coxe, Donald L. Doering, Ronald Ellis, Richard Field, Debbie Friedmann, Harriet Hasan, Emrul Hodgson, Glen McAlpine, Rory McCalla, Alex Mooney, Pat Mowling, Ray Off, Carol Reguly, Eric Walsh, Susan Watson, Samy Weston, Galen G.		Opening Keynote Address: Global Pressures That Will Shape the Politics of Food Production and Cultivation: How Can the World Produce Enough Food to Go Around? Distribution and Distortion: How Can We Get Enough Food to Everyone Who Needs It? Food Safety and Regulation — How Safe Is Safe Enough? The Politics of Diet: How Can We Strike the Right Balance? The Future of Food(s): What Will Our Children Eat? Closing Keynote: The Global Politics of Food: What Now? First Annual CIPA Youth Contest
Summer Conference 2008		The Power of Knowledge: The New Global Currency
Buxton, Bill Clarke, Michael Drassinower, Abraham Dumaine, Carol Ebrahim, Zahra Gordon, Cindy Jolliffe, Scott Keen, Andrew Knopf, Howard Lynch, Kevin Oguamanam, Chidi Rossant, Janet Sinclair, Gerri Smith, Richard Stanford, Jim Stoddart, Jennifer Stohn, Stephen Sullivan, Paul Wilson, Ian		Opening Keynote Address: The Uncertain Path from Noise to Wisdom What Knowledge Explosion? Globalization and Competitiveness A Debate: Citizen Journalism or Amateur Hour? Beyond Copyright: Liberators or Thieves Creating Knowledge: Creating Value Intellectual Property: Patents, Profits or People Security: Government, Openness and Connections
Summer Conference 2007		The Stranger Next Door: Making Diversity Work
Adams, Michael Andrew, Joan Body-Gendrot, Sophie Clements, Marie Gross Stein, Janice Habaconc, Alden Hill, Lawrence Jonas, George Kymlicka, Will Lacey, Veronica Lines, Chief Superintendent Kate Macklin, Audrey McAndrew, Marie Nawaz, Zarqa Omidvar, Ratna Pettigrew, Pierre Ramadan, Tariq Shamas Jiwa, Farouk Siddiqui, Haroon Studin, Irvin Watts, Bob Wong, Milton		Introductory Panel: Uneasy Partners Opening Keynote Address: The Challenge of Diversity Canada – Who Shall We Be? Unleashing All Our Diversity of Talents Diversity & Security: Diverse Threats to Security? Are Canadian Institutions Adapting to Diversity? Putting Diverse Talents to Work Is There a Mainstream Canadian Culture? What Does Citizenship Mean in a World Without Borders? Closing Keynote: Where Do We Go From Here?
Summer Conference 2006		Wedded to Progress: For Better, For Worse
Allen, Lillian Basrur, Sheela Chong, Michael Ebrahim, Salimah Golden, Anne Greenhill, Robert Hollingsworth, Michael Ibbitson, John Kingwell, Mark Kohli, Atul Larbi, Madonna Magubane, Zine Maracle, Brian May, Elizabeth Rakoff, Vivian Saul, John Ralston Tenner, Edward Timmerman, Peter Vassos, Tom Weigelt, John		Opening Keynote Address From the Personal… Technology and Innovation: Until Death Do Us Part... The Paradox of Progress — Unintended Consequences To the Political: Africa and the Developing World — Progress Questioned The Story of Progress Canada Looking Forward: Making Progress Happen Closing Keynote Address: Rediscovering the Sense of Action and Leadership
Summer Conference 2005		Handcuffs and Hand Grenades: The Use of Force Within and Between Nations
Abai, Mulugeta Barbier, Mary Kathryn Borovoy, Alan Bradley, Peter Braverman, Irus Gordon, Nancy Heinbecker, Paul Jenness, Craig Leslie, Andrew Mackenzie, Lewis Palmer, Elizabeth Pepler, Debra Ramkhalawansingh, Ceta Regehr, Ernie Silverberg, Christine Taylor, Mark Tremblay, Richard Wohlfeld, Monika		Opening Keynote Address Socialization and Force from the Kitchen to the Screen Force and the State When to Use Force and When to Avoid It Force in a Single Superpower World Canada’s Position on the Use of Force Internationally Closing Keynote Address
Summer Conference 2004		God’s Back — with a Vengeance
Adams, Michael Ahmed, Ali Jimale Armstrong, Karen Berlin, David Beyer, Peter Buckman, Robert Cauchon, Martin Graham, Patrick Jaffer, Mobina Kavakci, Merve Lamba, Rinku Land, Richard Lugo, Luis E. Marshall, Katherine Novak, David Orsi, Robert Post, Jerrold Rogers, Melissa Simmons, Harvey Tamar Paltiel, Candida Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad Zine, Jasmin		Contemporary Voices: The VisionTV Address on Religion and Public Life Clarification of the Issues The Causes of the Religious Revival A Meeting of Minds: Iran and Israel The Canadian Situation Getting Down to Cases: France, Turkey and India The American Religion Religion vs. Pluralism Closing Keynote: Summary of the Conference
Summer Conference 2003		Continentalism: What’s in it for us?
Asner, Edward Atkey, P.C., Q.C., Ronald Axworthy, The Hon. Lloyd Carvajal Isunza, Gustavo DePalma, Anthony Dieck-Assad, Maria De Lourdes Dodge, David A. Fauver, Robert Graham, Bill Graham, Jr., Ambassador Thomas Handelman, Stephen Hurtig, Mel Jacques, Renée Kelly, Stephen Loy, Frank Maxwell, C.M., Judith McDonald, Elizabeth Nymark, Alan Rozental, Ambassador Andrés Westell, Anthony Wilson, The Hon. Michael Yussuff, Hassan		Opening Keynote Address: Continentalism Keynote Speaker: The Big Idea, the Grand Bargain, the Vanishing Country Sovereignty or Standard of Living? Is There a NAFTA Plus? What Kind of North America do Canadians Want? From Norad to Northcom: Who takes orders from whom? Trading Cultures: At what price national identity? Take my Pollution...Please Closing Keynote: Sovereignty, Interdependence and Integration
Summer Conference 2002		Cities and Globalization: Communities in a Changing World
Baumgartner, Mark Berns Mcgown, Rima Carlton, E. Brock Collenette, The Hon. David Ducharme, Yves Frisken, Frances Golden, Anne Hall, Barbara Hoy, Shirley Hull, Doug Lavoie, Réne Lefebvre, Margaret Leith, Linda Lewis Stein, David May, Christine Ng'andwe, Max O'Leary, John Obonsawin, Roger Orbinski, James Segato, Lorraine Slack, Enid Taylor, Deanne		Session One – Opening Keynote: Cities of the World Unite: Toward a League of Cities? Session Two – Local Governance in a Globalized World Session Three – Globalization and Local Autonomy: Why There’s Never Enough Money Session Four – Social Inclusion in the Globalized Urban Environment Session Five – Livable Local Communities: Pollution Sans Frontières? Session Six – Urban Diversity and Cultural Expression: The Coca-colonization of Local Identities? Session Seven – Internet Intercourse: Where Do You Live? Session Eight – Closing Keynote: Building Strong and Secure Urban Communities in a Changing World
Summer Conference 2001		Globalization and Democracy: Whose World Is It?
Agnew, David Campbell, Rt. Hon. Kim Conlon, Michael Dowdeswell, Elizabeth Fraser, Matthew Gibson, Douglas M. Gillespie, A. Ian Greenhill, Robert Harcourt, Michael Hartt, Stanley Lortie, Marc McCunn-Miller, Patricia McGuinty, David J. Ostry, Sylvia Pettigrew, Hon. Pierre Pilon, Robert Probyn, Stephen Riche, Nancy Salutin, Rick Wiwa, Owens Znaimer, Moses		Keynote address: Globalization and Democracy: Whose World Is It? In the Name of Connectivity In the Name of Sustainability In the Name of Prosperity In the Name of Humanity In the Name of Cultural Identity In the Name of Governance Closing keynote: In the Name of Canada
Summer Conference 2000		The Future of Health in Canada: The Art of the Possible
Armstrong, Patricia Backlar, Patricia Bates, Donald Dale-Johnson, Vern Decter, Michael Evans, Robert Golden, Ann Guerriere, Michael Joubert, Natacha Kenney, Nuala Kerr, Gretchen Marcheterre, André Marmot, Sir Michael Mustard, J. Fraser Offord, David (Dan) Pawson, Anthony Rock, The Hon. Allan Roos, Noralou Smith, Michael Tarlov, Alvin R. Wilson, Michael Wolfson, Michael		Proceedings of the 69th Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 10–13, 2000 Compiled and edited by Madeline Koch Opening Keynote Session I: What is Health? What exactly are we striving for? Session II: How Healthy are Canadians? What recent research tells us. Session III: Medicines in our Future Session IV: The Personal Impact of Technological Possibilities: How will technology change our lives? What issues will it raise? Session V: Passing By on the Other Side Session VI: Mental Illness in the Family: A Personal View Session VII: The Citizen and the Health System: Rights and responsibilities Session VIII: What Promotes and Sustains Good Health? Lifestyle, Interventions and Evidence Closing Keynote: "To Our Very Good Health" Photographs
Summer Conference 1999		Science, Ethics & Human Destiny
Davies, Paul Gray, John Kingwell, Mark Knoppers, Bartha Maria Maddox, Sir John McDonald, Art Miller, Sherrill Milne, Courtney Murchland, Bernard Percy, John Polanyi, John Savory, Eve Schabas, Margaret Serageldin, Ismail Somerville, Margaret Strong, Maurice Worton, Dr. Ronald		Proceedings of the 68th Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 5–8, 1999 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "We keep on asking the same questions. How was the universe built? How does life go on? Where is the mind? All questions asked quite cogently by Aristotle more than two and a half thousand years ago." – Sir John Maddox, Former Editor, Nature President's Message Contemporary Astronomy: Where are we in time and space? Science and Technology: To what will they lead us? A Personal Perspective: John Polanyi When Science Meets Culture: What do we do with scientific knowledge? Keynote Address: Are we alone? The search for life beyond Earth Governance and Vision: Will global interdependence be our destiny? The Sacred Earth Ethics and a Sense of Meaning: What is it that we must do? Science, Ethics and Human Destiny: A Synthesis Photographs
Winter Conference 1999		The New Europe and the Atlantic Relationship Growth, change and opportunities...a comprehensive evaluation
Black, Conrad Coxe, Donald Hunter, Ambassador Robert Macdonald, Hon Donald S. Merritt, Giles Ostry, Dr. Sylvia Pöhlmann, Ambassador Jürgen Portillo, Rt. Hon Michael Smedja, Ambassador Danielle Voigt, Dr. Karsten		Defining the Atlantic Relationship The New Europe at a Crossroads The New Euro Currency: Implications for Canada and the US, North America and Europe, The Next 50 Years
Summer Conference 1998		Rethinking Canada for the 21st Century
Adams, Michael Blanchard, Governor James Bouchard, Micheline Coates, Dan Connell, Martin Cook, Peter Courchene, Thomas Culpeper, Roy Dubois, Rene-Daniel Ellsworth, Qajaaq Gray, John Hall, Barbara Jerome-Forget, Monique Martin, Hon. Paul Nicholson, Peter Oliver, Senator Donald Owram, Dr. Douglas Paquet-Sevigny, Therese Shields, Carol Zussman, David		Proceedings of the 67th Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 6–9, 1998 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "The single world market does not trade in the currency of individual needs. Only governments will recognize their inherent worth and only governments will fight on their behalf." – Hon. Paul Martin, Minister of Finance Global Challenges: What global forces will affect Canada over the next generation? Meeting the challenge: In a global society in crisis and rapid change, at what do we excel; where do we fail? Keynote Address: The view from outside Canadian enterprise and ingenuity: Success stores in institutional innovation: private sector/NGO/not-for-profit/public sector. An Historical perspective: Canada responding to the challenges of the new century Searching for a preferred Canadian scenario The Canadian Essence: What will it mean to be a Canadian in the 21st century? Synthesis: Pathways to a Canadian future
Summer Conference 1997		Canada and the Asia-Pacific Promise: Hope, Hype and Reality
Bronson, Diana Copithorne, Maurice Cox, Kathleen Dias, Clarence Kobayashi, Audrey Lau, Emily Macdonald, Bill Makela, Kathleen Manji, Irshad McGregor, J. D. Munro, Ross Saravanamuttu, Johan Shortreed, Ian Tze, Wah Tun Valaskakis, Kimon Wah, Immee Chi Yi, Sun-Kyung Yuen, Tony		Proceedings of the 66th Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 7–10, 1997 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "I think it's really quite vain of us, particularly in a small country like Canada, but vain and arrogant of large a country like the United States, that it feels it can manipulate things, so that we can actually change the political culture in China." – Ross Munro, Co-author of The Coming Conflict with China Keynote Address The Strategic Centre of the World: Economic Dynamism and the Search for Stability in East Asia Hong Kong and China A Meeting of Cultures and a Clash of Values: Living Together in an Interdependent World The Asian Dimension in Canada Canada's National Interest in the Asia Pacific: Trade and Investment, Political Change and International Security Closing Keynote Address
Summer Conference 1996		Citizens of the Electronic Village: Smartening up or dumbing down?
Bond, David Dasko, Donna Duggan, Ervin S. Ellis, David Godfrey, John Lind, Phil Pacey, Lucille Powe, Bruce Probyn, Stephen Salter, Liora Tacy, Will Tipson, Frederick Valaskakis, Gail Veltman, Kim Watson, Patrick		Proceedings of the 65th Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 8–11, 1996 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "Can the Electronic Village, in which we are all apparently destined to live, ever resemble the ancient Greek marketplace where not only business and market transactions took place, but great ideas were discussed and great concepts were born?" – Ervin Duggan, President and CEO of PBS Keynote Address Prometheus Unbound Again: More Questions than Answers Looming Chaos or a New Birth of Freedom? Let a Million Flowers Bloom Community or Solitude? Brave New World Closing Keynote Address
Winter Conference 1995		The Changing Economy and Knowledge-Based Services: How Will Canada Succeed?
Arnold, Hugh J. Baetz, Mary Coyne, Andrew Herrndorf, Peter Probyn, Stephen Smith, Geoffrey Thomas, Grant Whittaker, Sheelagh		Proceedings of the 1995 Winter Conference held at the Design Exchange, Toronto, Ontario Thursday, March 23, 1995 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "A new technology does not add or subtract something. It changes everything." — Neil Postman, Technopoly. What We Know and What We Don't Public-Private Partnerships Implications for Workers and Business Selling Canada's Knowledge-Based Services in Foreign Markets
Summer Conference 1995		The New New World: Canada in the Americas
Eduardo Anina Richard Aitkenhead Laura Bonaparte Jean Daudelin Joel Garneau James Nelson Goodsell Susan Kaufman-Purcell Alfonso Lopez The Hon. Roy MacLaren Jack C.M. Ogelsby Andrew Oppenheimer Halina Ostrovski Francisco Sagasti Jaime Suchlicki Andres Rozental Alberto J. Verme		Keynote Address The Legacy of History: Two Americas or One? The Hemispheric Marketplace: A Level Playing Field? Nunca Mas, Never Again: Can Democracy Take Root? Exporing Alternative Futures for the Americas: Four Scenarios Making a Common Future Work Closing Keynote Address
Summer Conference 1994		Globalism and Tribalism: The New World Disorder
Broadbent, Hon. Edward Coxe, Donald Frum, David Graham, William Hugh-Jones, Stephen Ignatieff, Michael Kuptana, Rosemarie Masse, Hon. Marcel Maybury-Lewis, David McIvor, Gordon Mossberg, Barbara Salée, Daniel Saumier, André Spicer, Keith Zingrone, Frank		Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 4–7, 1994 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "We are making excuses for ourselves, when we dismiss the Balkans as a sub-rational zone of extractable fanaticism. These people had to be transformed from neighbours into enemies." – Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism. Keynote Address: The New World Disorder? Globalism: Threat or Opportunity Tribalism: Recreating Community Nationalism: Can the Nation-State Cope? Media and National Mythologies in the Global Marketplace Governance: How Will Democracy Survive the New Politics? Closing Address: The Canadian Response
Summer Conference 1993		The Challenge of Lifelong Learning in an Era of Global Change
Barton, Richard Brzustowski, Tom De Kerckhove, Derrick Dominico, Richard Flood, Al Green, Joan Lazar, Harvey McIvor, Gordon McKay, Michael McKenna, Frank Mustard, Dr. Fraser Parr-Johnston, Elizabeth Ralston Saul, John Tapscott, Don Veltman, Kim Wright, Douglas		Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 5–8, 1993 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." – H. G. Wells Building a Learning Culture Special Seminar: Computers and the Transformation of Knowledge Special Seminar: Paradigm Shift The Economic Challenge Special Seminar: The Dictatorship of Reason Delivering Educational Excellence
Summer Conference 1992		Competitiveness and Social Justice: How Can Canada Have Both?
Barkin, Martin Brzustowski, Tom Caplan, Gerald Cote, Marcel Coxe, Donald Crane, David Foot, David Franssen, Margot Galbraith, John Kenneth Gerard, Leo Hammarskjold, Knut Hartt, Stanley Hosek, Chaviva Nicholson, Peter Pomeroy, Fred W. Richmond, Don White, Julie Wyman, Georgina		Proceedings of the 61st Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario August 6 to 9, 1992 Compiled and edited by Kildare Dobbs Keynote Address – The Economic Problem: From Wish to Reality Panel: The Canadian Crisis Special Seminar: Inevitable Surprises – Demographics and Our Future Society Panel: Competing Visions Panel: Considering the Competition Panel: Delivering Compassion Efficiently Panel: Competitiveness Through Compassion Panel: Designing the Ideal Canada
Summer Conference 1991		Growing up on the Edge: The Emerging Generation and Canada's Future
Arima, Philip Atkins, Drew Cadiuex, Hon. Pierre Craig, Aaron Dickinson, Brock Extavour, Cassandra Goodchild, Melanie Gow, Kathleen Hawkins, Gordon Hicks, Selwyn Johanson, Sue Kelley, David Koch, Eric Lebel, Anne Mackenzie, Michael MacNevin, Karen Murray, Catherine Rakoff, Dr. Vivian Ruffo, Judge Andree Stewart, Lorne Straw, Will Wheaton, Melanie		Proceedings of the 60th Annual Couchiching Conference held at YMCA Geneva Park, Orillia, Ontario, August 8–11, 1991 Compiled and edited by Douglas Glynn "About one in two (teens), indeed, say they agree with the view that older generations have screwed up the world so much it’s probably up to teens to save it." – Catherine Murray, Vice-President, Decima Research Images Realities Identities Couchiching's Diamond Jubilee Institutions Agendas Youth: Canada's Future Answers

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Summer Conference 2009

The Global Politics of Food

Summer Conference 2008

The Power of Knowledge: The New Global Currency

Summer Conference 2007

The Stranger Next Door: Making Diversity Work

Summer Conference 2006

Wedded to Progress: For Better, For Worse

Summer Conference 2005

Handcuffs and Hand Grenades: The Use of Force Within and Between Nations

Summer Conference 2004

God’s Back — with a Vengeance

Summer Conference 2003

Continentalism: What’s in it for us?

Summer Conference 2002

Cities and Globalization: Communities in a Changing World

Summer Conference 2001

Globalization and Democracy: Whose World Is It?

Summer Conference 2000

The Future of Health in Canada: The Art of the Possible

Summer Conference 1999

Science, Ethics & Human Destiny

Winter Conference 1999

The New Europe and the Atlantic Relationship Growth, change and opportunities...a comprehensive evaluation

Summer Conference 1998

Rethinking Canada for the 21st Century

Summer Conference 1997

Canada and the Asia-Pacific Promise: Hope, Hype and Reality

Summer Conference 1996

Citizens of the Electronic Village: Smartening up or dumbing down?

Winter Conference 1995

The Changing Economy and Knowledge-Based Services: How Will Canada Succeed?

Summer Conference 1995

The New New World: Canada in the Americas

Summer Conference 1994

Globalism and Tribalism: The New World Disorder

Summer Conference 1993

The Challenge of Lifelong Learning in an Era of Global Change

Summer Conference 1992

Competitiveness and Social Justice: How Can Canada Have Both?

Summer Conference 1991

Growing up on the Edge: The Emerging Generation and Canada's Future

The Power of Knowledge:
The New Global Currency

The Stranger Next Door:
Making Diversity Work

Wedded to Progress:
For Better, For Worse

Handcuffs and Hand Grenades:
The Use of Force Within and Between Nations

The New Europe and the Atlantic Relationship
Growth, change and opportunities...a comprehensive evaluation

Citizens of the Electronic Village:
Smartening up or dumbing down?

The Changing Economy and Knowledge-Based Services:
How Will Canada Succeed?

Growing up on the Edge:
The Emerging Generation and Canada's Future