CIC Working Groups
The goal of the CIC working groups is to identify major issues and challenges in their respective areas of study and to suggest and outline the best possible answers to Canada's strategic foreign policy position on those issues. Each working group aims to generate high end, empirically valid research and impactful foreign policy advice on each issue that are grounded in scholarship. It is important that the output of these working groups provides added value to the debates and discussions on these issues in Canada.
WORKING GROUP CHAIRS
BORDER ISSUES
Michael Kergin
19th Representative of Canada to the United States
Former Ambassador to Cuba
ARCTIC SOVEREIGNTY AND SECURITY
Hugh Segal
Executive Vice Chair, Canadian International Council
Former CEO of the Institute for Research on Public Policy
CHINA AND EMERGING LARGE POWERS
Pitman Potter
Returning Director, Institute of Asian Research at the University of British Columbia
ENERGY
Hal Kvisle
President and CEO, TransCanada Pipelines Limited and TransCanada Corporation
STRATEGIC STUDIES
Don Macnamara
Brigadier-General (Ret'd)
President, CIC Victoria Branch
Past President and Chair, Canadian Institute of Stratetgic Studies