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Board of Directors

Chair

Stephen Smith

Chairman, President and Co-Founder of First National Financial LP

Members

Charles R. Bronfman

Former Chairman, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies; and former Co-Chairman of The Seagram Company Ltd.

Jean Charest

Partner, McCarthy Tétrault LLP; Premier of Québec (2003-2012); Member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada

Michael Chong

M.P. Wellington-Halton Hills

Ann Dadson

Former President, Historica Foundation of Canada

Gary Doer

23rd Canadian Ambassador to the United States and former Premier of Manitoba.

L. Yves Fortier, C.C., Q.C.

Cabinet Yves Fortier, Montréal, 20 Essex Street, London, Arbitration Place, Toronto

Myra A. Freeman, C.M., O.N.S.

Former Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia

The Right Honourable David Johnston, C.C., C.M.M., C.D.

28th Governor General of Canada

Jim Leech, C.M., LL.D

Chancellor Emeritus, Queen’s University; Retired President and CEO, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan

Eric Maldoff, C.M., Ad. E.

Partner, Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Malançon

Peter Mansbridge, OC

Former Chief Correspondent for CBC News and anchor of The National

The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., C.C.

Chief Justice of Canada from 2000-2017

Trina McQueen, O.C.

President, Hutton-Belleville Inc.

Rick Mercer

Host, The Rick Mercer Report

Judith Moses

President & CEO Judith Moses Consulting

Naheed Nenshi

36th mayor of Calgary
Naheed Nenshi

Jeffrey L. Orridge

Chief Executive Officer at TVO

Arni C. Thorsteinson, CFA

President, Shelter Canadian Properties Ltd.

Lynton R. (Red) Wilson, O.C.

Chairman, The Wilson Foundation, Chancellor, Canadian Business Hall of Fame, and Chancellor Emeritus, McMaster University

Daniel R. Woolf, FRSC

Principal Emeritus and Professor, Queen’s University

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