The Dynamics of Decentralization: Canadian Federalism and British Devolution
Newcastle, Co Down, Northern Ireland, 18-20 November 1999

CHAIRMAN
Sir Colin Shepherd
Former Chairman of Canadian Parliamentary Group
Member of British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

RAPPORTEUR
Professor Trevor Salmon
Professor and Head of the Department of Politics at the University of Aberdeen

BRITISH SPEAKERS (in order of presentation)
Sir Ouentin Thomas
Head of Constitution Unit Cabinet Office London *

Professor Robert Hazel
Head of Constitution Unit University College London

Sir George Quiplev CB
Chairman of Bombardier Aerospace Shorts and of Ulster Bank

Professor Geowe Bain
Vice-Chancellor of The Queen's University of Belfast

Nicola Munro
Scottish Office Department of Health

Helen Thomas
Director of Social Services & Communities Group, The National Assembly for Wales

Ian Sparks
Chief Executive, Children's Society

Professor Kenneth Morgan
Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales

CANADIAN SPEAKERS (in order of presentation)
George Anderson
Deputy Minister for Intergovernmental Relations in Canada

Professor Richard Simeon
Department of Political Science, University of Toronto

Al O'Brien (and Patricia O'Brien)
Fellow of the Institute of Public Economics, University of Alberta

Dr Harvev Lazar
Director of Institute for Intergovernmental Relations, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston Ontario

Claude Forget
President, C.E.F Ganish Corporation, Montreal

Professor Jane Jensen
Departement de Science Politique, Universite de Montreal

Hugh Segal
President, Institute for Research and Public Policy

OTHER BRITISH PARTICIPANTS
Geoffrey Bacon & Fleur Bacon
Chairman British Committee Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

Sir Nicholas Bayne KCMG
Hon President, British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

John Bridgeman
Director General Office of Fair Trading, Member of British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

Bronagh Clarke
Postgraduate student at The Queen's University of Belfast

Richard Fletcher
Vice President Government Relations and External Affairs, Nortel Nehvorks

Baroness Fookes of Plvmouth in the Countv of Devon DBE
Member of the House of Lords and former Deputy Speaker in the House of Commons. Member of British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

Sir Anthonv Goodenowh KCMG
British High Commissioner to Canada

Will Haire
Executive Director, International Marketing, Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland

Ailsa Henderson
Postgraduate student at the University of Edinburgh

Allan Hird & Veronica Ann Lwton Hird
Executive Secretary of the British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

Patrick Holdich
Head of American Section, Research Analysts Foreign & Commonwealth Office

Georpe William Hopkinson
Head of the International Security Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House

Peter Jones
Scotland and North of England Correspondent of The Economist

Professor Michael Keating
Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Professor of Regional Studies at the European University Institute at Florence

Steven King
Postgraduate student at University of Ulster, Belfast

Dr Peter Lvon
Former Academic Secretary of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies

John Mamire
Hon Vice President, British Committee Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia.
Canada Desk Officer, North America Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Peter Newton
Executive Secretary Designate British Committee Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

John Othick and Lvn Othick
Director of Centre of Canadian Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast

Philip Peacock
Partner in Radcliffe's Solicitors and Treasurer of the British Committee, Canada-United Kingdom Colloquia

Kathrvn Spence
Postgraduate student at the Queen's University of Belfast

OTHER CANADIAN PARTICIPANTS
Dr Keith G Banting
Director of the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario

Jacques Bilodeau and Jacqueline Bilodeau
Deputy High Commissioner, Canadian High Commission London

Bill Blakie MP
Member of Parliament (opposition), House of Commons, Ottawa

Kathervn Bouev
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs, Toronto

Professor Tom Courchene
School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Kingston Ontario

Debra Davis
Counsellor (public Affairs), Canadian High Commission London

Michael Dawson
Northern Europe Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ottawa

Professor Paul Hobson
Department of Economics, Acadia University Wolfiville Nova Scotia

Jacqueline Krikorian
PhD candidate at the University of Toronto

Tom MacDonald
Minister (Economic/Commercial), Canadian High Commission London

The Hon Rov MacLaren PC and Alethea MacLaren
Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom

Dr J. Peter Meekison
Professor Emeritus of Political Science of the University of Alberta

Michael Mendelson
Senior Scholar at the Caledon Institute of Social Policy Toronto

Benoit Pelletier
Member of the National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Chapleau

Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken MP
Member of the House of Commons and Deputy Speaker, Ottawa

Jennifer Stewart
PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary

Jean-Francois Tremblav
PhD candidate Departement de Science Politique, Universite Laval

Daniel Turp MP
Member of Parliament (Opposition), Ottawa

John White
Deputy Minister of Justice and Deputy Attorney General for the Government of Saskatchewan