Governor General
LaFontaine-Baldwin ConferenceJohn Ralston Saul and the Dominion Institute launched the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium, an annual event to honour two of Canada's great political reformers. The Symposium brings Canadians together to discuss and debate the future shape of Canada's civic culture. John Ralston Saul gave the inaugural lecture on Canada's civic culture in March 2000 in Toronto. The 2001 lecture was delivered in Montreal by Alain Dubuc, editor of Le Soleil newspaper, who offered a thoughtful examination of our often unconscious English-Canadian nationalism. In 2002 in Vancouver, Georges Erasmus, the great Dene leader and current President of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, gave an eloquent lecture on ways to renew and strengthen the relationship between Aboriginal Peoples and the rest of Canada. As Chair of the LaFontaine-Baldwin Symposium Advisory Board, John Ralston Saul will continue to co-host the Symposium each year in addition to leading all subsequent roundtable discussions. The Dominion Institute is a national, non-partisan, charitable organization founded in 1997 by a group of young people concerned about the state of Canada's public memory and its effect on informed discourse. Related Information:
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