After the Inauguration: The Canada-US Relationship with President Trump
Roundtable Luncheon with Allan Gotlieb, Lawrence Herman, and Peter MacKay
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Allan Gotlieb, Senior Business Advisor, International Law and Diplomacy Advisor at Bennett Jones
A former Canadian ambassador to the United States, Allan Gotlieb's international law and diplomacy experience has been honed over the past 50 years through his legal and public service careers.
Mr. Gotlieb is the emeritus chairman of the Canadian Group and former North American deputy chairman of the Trilateral Commission, a non-governmental policy discussion group. He is also chairman or member of several Canadian charitable foundations and companies and a past director of a number of international corporations in Canada and the United States as well as Canadian Crown corporations and agencies.
Mr. Gotlieb is a Companion of the Order of Canada, the highest civil honour in the country, a recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Government of Canada and of the Order of Manitoba.
Mr. Gotlieb has taught at numerous universities, including Harvard University as William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor and the University of Toronto as Claude Bissell Visiting Professor. He is an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, former Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a recipient of Honorary Doctorates from the University of Toronto, Western University, Concordia University and a number of other universities.
Mr. Gotlieb has written five books and countless articles on international law, diplomacy and political science. His latest book, The Washington Diaries: 1981-1989, was nominated for The Writer's Trust of Canada's 2007 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing. Regarding these diaries, Jeffrey Simpson of the Globe and Mail wrote "These are among the best diaries about public policy ever written by a Canadian, maybe even the best
Lawrence Herman, Herman and Associates
Lawrence Herman is a Senior Fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute
A frequent author and speaker at the Institute, Mr. Herman currently holds the position of Associate Counsel at Cassels Brock LLP. His practice emphasis is on international trade and international business transactions. He acts for corporations, governments and international agencies in the trade area, dealing particularly with the GATT/WTO, FTA and NAFTA. He regularly appears as counsel before dispute-resolution bodies under the NAFTA, as well as before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the courts in Canada.
Early in his career, Mr. Herman served in the Canadian Foreign Service in a variety of posts, at the United Nations in Geneva and in Ottawa, representing Canada in numerous international conferences and meetings, including the GATT, UNCTAD, OECD and the United Nations Conference. Prior to leaving the Foreign Service in 1980, he was the head of the Economic and Treaty Law Section in the External Affairs Department. As a private practitioner, he appeared for Canada at the International Court of Justice in 1984 in the Gulf of Maine maritime boundary dispute.
Mr. Herman has served on numerous government-industry advisory bodies over the years, including the Market Access Advisory Group set up by the Department of International Trade in 2005 to provide expert advice to the Canadian government in the Doha Round negotiations underway in Geneva. He has chaired the Trade Policy Committee of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Association and is a long-standing member of the International Affairs Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Herman is a proud member of the Board of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute. For years, he was on the executive of the Energy and Resources Law Section of the International Bar Association and the national board of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. In 2007, the World Energy Council (London) appointed him to be Director of its Task Force on Trade and Investment.
Mr. Herman has authored many scholarly articles and spoken regularly to business groups on matters of international trade, international business transactions and related subjects. He has been a columnist for the Financial Post and continues to write regularly for Canada’s national newspapers and appear on television discussing international trade and politics. He is a frequent guest lecturer on international law at universities, including law schools.
He is the author of three books: Canadian Trade Remedy Law and Practice (1997), Canadian Trade Law: Practice and Procedure (2007) and Export Controls & Economic Sanctions: A Guide to Canadian Trade Restrictions (2010).
Peter MacKay, Partner, Baker McKenzie
Peter MacKay is a Partner in the Baker McKenzie Toronto office. Prior to joining the Firm, Peter MacKay, PC, QC (Privy Council and Queen's Counsel), served in the Parliament of Canada for over 18 years and in a ministerial post in the Canadian government for nine years since the Conservative Party formed a government in 2006. Most recently, he served as Canada's Attorney General and Minister of Justice, a position to which he was appointed in 2013. Prior to this post, Mr. MacKay served as the Minister of National Defence for six years and held joint cabinet positions as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency for 18 months.
During his first five years in the House of Commons, Mr. MacKay served as House Leader for the Progressive Conservative caucus. In this capacity he represented the caucus on issues pertaining to management and operations of Parliament. He also served as the Progressive Conservative critic for law enforcement issues, and as a member of the Board of Internal Economy, the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, the Standing Committee on Finance, and the Sub-Committee on the Study of Sport in Canada. In May 2003, Mr. MacKay became the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada's 23rd leader. He played a pivotal role in the reunification of the Conservative movement in Canada and the formation of the Conservative Party of Canada, serving as its 1st deputy leader.
From 1992 to 1997, Mr. MacKay served as a Crown prosecutor in Nova Scotia, and spent time in private practice and in Germany as lawyer at Thyssen Henchel. He is the founder of the highly regarded Halifax International Security Forum, which he hosted beginning in 2009.
Practice Focus: Mr. MacKay's practice focuses on government enforcement proceedings and compliance matters, and he provides strategic advice to Canadian companies doing business globally and international companies doing business in Canada.
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