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The Parliament We Want: Parliamentary Reform in 2012 A Forum Exploring Parliamentary Democracy in Contemporary Canada A free public event featuring a multi-partisan panel. Panelists will discuss the course to build on Canada’s historic parliamentary traditions, aiming to ensure that the House of Commons and the Senate will operate most effectively and will provide a clear plan to energize both vital institutions, and Canadians. The discussion will feature questions from citizens at the event.

	Hon. Michael Chong PC, MP The Conservative Member of Parliament for Wellington-Halton Hills, Mr. Chong was first elected to Parliament in 2004. In 2006, Michael served in the federal cabinet as President of the Queen’s Privy Council, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister for Sport.
	Sean Conway A member of the the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for 28 years, Mr. Conway served in the cabinet of Premier David Peterson (1985-90), holding the positions of Minister of Education, Minister of Colleges and Universities, Minister of Mines and Government House Leader.
	Alison Loat Alison is the co-founder and executive director of Samara, an organization that works to strengthen political engagement in Canada. She is also a fellow and instructor at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto, and is the president-elect of the Canadian Club of Toronto.
	Steve Paikin Steve Paikin is anchor and senior editor of “The Agenda with Steve Paikin,” TVO’s flagship current affairs program. He is also the author of a number of critically acclaimed books including “The Life: The Seductive Call of Politics”, “The Dark Side: The Personal Price of a Political Life” and “Public Triumph, Private Tragedy: The Double Life of John P. Robarts.
	Daniel Tisch – Moderator Daniel Tisch is a Past-Chair of the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy (2004-2007). Currently president of Argyle Communications, a leading national public relations firm, Dan is a frequent media commentator and blogger on political communication. Earlier in his career, he served in senior policy and communications roles in the Canadian government.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Munk School of Global Affairs

1 Devonshire Place

Time: 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm

Churchill Society Book Club

Combination Room, Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue
Date TBD

Please join us for a discussion of Mary Soames’, “A Daughter’s Tale- The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child”. Perceptive, funny, always totally honest, it provides an unequalled view of the corridors of power. Mary was neither downstairs nor upstairs: her view was from the nursery, the schoolroom, that of the family member who took no part in the shaping of great events but saw and noted almost everything. It is not the whole story, but it is a vital part of it and one which could not come from any other source.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Reception: 5:30 p.m. Dinner: 6:00 p.m. Debate: 8:00 p.m.

Dinner & Debate Package: $65

Our annual sponsorship of a formal student debate at Hart House in the University of Toronto is a long-standing component of the Churchill’s Society’s educational programme. Our aim is to advance the cause of parliamentary democracy by encouraging and facilitating debate about issues of importance and relevance to Canada’s democracy.

RESOLVED: Support for democracy should be the foundation of Canadian foreign policy.

Since 1924 Hart House Formal Debates have been the premier forum of debate and discussion at the University of Toronto. The Debates are led off by some of the best student debaters in the world and also provide opportunity for all in attendance to express their views. The debates conclude with a prominent guest speaker, often newsmakers, journalists, or academics, providing their perspective on the resolution.

Another reason for the Churchill Society’s sponsorship stems from the Canadian Parliamentary Debating style used in the debate. There is a Prime Minister and a Minister of the Crown on one side and a Leader of the Opposition and Member of the Opposition the other. There is a Speaker, Sergeant-at-Arms, and a Clerk. Points of Order, Personal Privilege and heckling are allowed.

2011 Guest Speaker: The Honourable Bob Rae

Bob Rae served as Ontario’s 21st Premier and is currently the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Toronto Centre.

The Friends of the Library Trinity College

Paul Stevens
Churchill’s Novel: Savrola

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
7:30 for 8 pm
Combination Room
RSVP by 4 March
416 · 978 · 2653
FOTL@trinity.utoronto.ca

Paul Stevens is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature and Culture in the University of Toronto Department of English. His area of specialty is Seventeenth-Century English literature, especially the works of John Milton. Former President of the Milton Society of America and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, his most recent book is Early Modern Nationalism and Milton’s England, co-edited with David Lowenstein, which won the 2009 Irene Samuel Memorial Prize. His publications on Churchill include “Churchill’s Military Romanticism,” Queen’s Quarterly (2006) and Ex Libris (2006) and “Final Reflections: Edmund Spenser and the End of the British Empire,” in Empires of God (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010). Churchill’s first and only novel, Savrola, was published in 1899 when the future statesman was just twenty-five years old. The novel may not be great literature but it is a fascinating work which does much to illuminate Churchill’s mind at the beginning of his career. Most importantly, it does much to explain his complex relationship with his parents and the wellsprings of his ambition.

March 16th – 18th 2011 at the Ontario Legislative Assembly 

The G20 Summit and Canadian civil liberties. Canada’s ongoing military engagement in Afghanistan. Taking loans to pay for a University or College education. What’s your take on some of Canada’s leading national issues?

Join hundreds of students from across the country for three days of debate at the Ontario Legislative Assembly. From Wednesday March 16 – 18^th, the University of Toronto Model Parliament will host its Second Annual Parliamentary Simulation. This is not merely (or exclusively) an opportunity to get up on a soapbox.  Work with young Canadians like yourself, and contribute to the creation of public policy solutions for the Canada of tomorrow.

On the evening of the 16^th, join us for the Inaugural Ball, a reception for delegates to the Second Annual Parliamentary Simulation and University of Toronto students in international relations, history, political science and economics. Each delegate receives two complimentary tickets to the event.

If you register before March 1, 2011, you are eligible for the early bird rate: $40.00.

We are also offering a limited number of needs-based bursaries sponsored by the Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy.

Visit www.utmodelparliament.org today to register.

E-mail any questions or comments to registration@utmodelparliament.org.

We look forward to seeing you.

University of Toronto Model Parliament
Munk School for Global Affairs
Room 004N
1 Devonshire Place
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 3K7
connect@utmodelparliament.org
www.utmodelparliament.org

Churchill Defiant: Fighting On, 1945-1955

by Barbara Leaming

The book is published by Harper Collins and available at Chapters/Indigo. 

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Combination Room
Trinity College
University of Toronto
6 Hoskin Ave.

The event is FREE to all who are interested.

“Expelled from power in 1945 by the British electorate, Winston Churchill could have retired, written memoirs, and basked in national esteem for his wartime leadership. Despite this, Churchill clung to politics for another decade, frustrating the ambition for the top spot of the Conservative Party’s younger, glamour-boy heir apparent, Anthony Eden. Leaming’s absorbing chronicle depicts Churchill’s conviction of his indispensability and Eden’s exasperations within a sequence of schemes and cabals of Tory factions to replace the former with the latter. Such plots the wily Churchill repeatedly circumvented by reneging on promises to retire and by public speeches that effectively (though deceptively) allayed rumours about his health, diminished by several strokes. Illuminating Churchill’s determination to defy time, Leaming alludes to his previous comebacks and to his belief that he alone could negotiate with Stalin and his successors, a conceit with which the author makes some sport. In the context of Britain’s grim postwar years of austerity and the ascension of Elizabeth II, Leaming produces eminently readable political history.”

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 Citizens of London

How Britain Was Rescued In Its Darkest, Finest Hour

by Lynne Olson

Thursday, April 22, 2010
7:00 pm
Combination Room
Trinity College
University of Toronto
6 Hoskin Ave.

My latest book — Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour — will be published by Random House on Feb. 2, 2010. Like Troublesome Young Men, it deals with Britain in World War II, this time from an American perspective. In it, I focus on three Americans who lived in London during the war and who played major roles in forming and shaping the Anglo-American alliance — John Gilbert Winant, the American ambassador to Britain; Edward R. Murrow, the celebrated CBS broadcaster, and Averell Harriman, the head of Lend Lease in Britain. Each, in his own way, was crucial to the success of the “special relationship,” and each has a dramatic story to tell. – Lynne Olson

Annual General Meeting & Luncheon

Join us as we celebrate a successful 2010 / 2011 Churchill Society year!

Guest Speaker – details coming soon!

Thursday May 26th
The Albany Club
Sir John A. MacDonald Room – 4th Floor
91 King Street East
Toronto, ON
12 noon – 2pm

Lunch will be served.

An AGM will deal with items of business, including election of directors and approval of financial statements.

RESOLVED: Parliament should direct that youth be sentenced as adults.

Former Chief Justice of Ontario
The Honourable R. Roy McMurtry, O.C., O.Ont., Q.C.

Co-author, Review of the Roots of Youth Violence

As the co-author of the Review of the Roots of Youth Violence commissioned by the Ontario Government in 2008,  Mr. McMurtry is in a unique position to speak to the debate resolution.  Prior to serving as the chief justice of Ontario,  Mr. McMurtry was Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, attorney general and solicitor general for the province of Ontario.  As part of Davis Government,  Mr. McMurtry was involved in the patriation of the Constitution of Canada and the creation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  Mr. McMurtry is currently the chancellor of  York University. (He is pictured above in 1981 with then attorney general for Saskatchewan, Roy Romanow, and then federal justice minister Jean Chretien.

This event was held Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Churchill Society Chairman Robert O’Brien presents Roy McMurtry with a copy of Lynne Olson’s new book Citizens of London and a copy of Sir Martin Gilbert’s The Will of the People: Winston Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy.

WATCH THE VIDEO FROM PARLIAMENT 2010

The Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy in partnership with the Munk Centre for International Studies presented ‘Parliament 2010: Prorogation & Beyond.”

This lively forum exploring parliamentary democracy in contemporary Canada was held March 8, 2010 at the Campbell Conference Facility in the Munk Centre for International Studies,  University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place.

A rousing discussion on the subject of democracy in Canada, this free public information meeting featured some of Canada’s most eminent journalists and former Parliamentarians. Our esteemed panel of speakers shared their views on the role of Parliament and its impact on Canadian democracy.  They discussed the essentials of parliamentary democracy, political strategy in the current minority parliament & more.

Our distinguished panel featured:

Andrew Coyne, National Editor for Maclean’s, Canada’s weekly national newsmagazine; award-winning editorial writer

Richard Gwyn, OC, One of Canada’s most highly regarded senior journalists and political authors

The Honourable Barbara McDougall, PC, OC, Member of Parliament (1984-1993), Former Secretary of State for External Affairs and Minister of Employment & Immigration. Advisor, Aird & Berlis LLP

The Honourable John Godfrey, PC, Member of Parliament (1993-2006), Former Minister of State (Infrastructure and Communities) Headmaster, Toronto French School

Moderator: Daniel Tisch, President, Argyle Communications & Past Chair, Churchill Society

Repeating the successes of previous events on the subject of the Parliamentary ‘crisis’ & coalition governments, The Churchill Society continues to play an active role in fostering education about parliamentary democracy in schools & amongst the Canadian public.

Exclusive Commentary

Canada’s Federal Parliament is Performing Badly – The Need for Reform is Urgent

Peter H. Russell

Prospects for a Beleaguered Parliament

Robin Sears

Perspective, Prorogation and Parliamentary Reform

Senator Hugh Segal

A charitable evening in support of democracy education in Canada and to celebrate the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill and Parliamentary Democracy in Canada.

The Right Honourable Herb Gray, PC, CC, QC
Churchill Society Award for Excellence in the Cause of Parliamentary Democracy

Lynne Olson
Author, Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill  to Power and Helped Save England.

This event was held November 18, 2009