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CIC Victoria: Canada, Europe and Brexit
March 26, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

Description
Registration will commence two weeks prior to the event.
Speakers
Marc Lortie joined the Department of External Affairs in 1971, served in Tunisia (1973-75) and Washington (1979-83). He was seconded to the Prime Minister’s Office in 1985, in charge of relations with the international media, and was named Press Secretary in 1987. In 1989 he served in Paris as Minister-Counsellor for Political Affairs and as Personal Representative of the Prime Minister for La Francophonie. He was Canadian Ambassador to Chile (1993-97), then was Fellow at the Centre for International Affairs at Harvard University. Marc returned to Ottawa in 1998 and was appointed Sherpa for the third Summit of the Americas. In 2001, he was appointed Assistant Deputy Minister for the Americas. He served as Ambassador of Canada to Spain (2004-07), and Ambassador of Canada in France (2007-12).
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly is a political scientist, specializing in comparative and urban politics. He worked in the French public sector for 10 years, in the French Small Business Administration and the Nord Pas-de-Calais Regional Council. Prior to his 2001 appointment at UVic, Emmanuel was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Western Ontario (1999-2000), and Assistant Director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame (2000-01). At UVic’s School of Public Administration he is Jean Monnet Chair in European Urban and Border Region Policy, Director of the European Studies minor and of the European Union Centre for Excellence. He is also co-director of the Local Government Institute, and the editor of Journal of Borderland Studies. His key research areas are: Comparative Urban Governance and Governance of Cross-border Regions.
Registration
Registration will commence two weeks prior to the event.
Branch-based Contact Person for registration: Roger Love
Email: cicpip2018@gmail.com
Cut-off date for registration: Wednesday, March 21, 2018
CIC Member Price $20.00
CIC Student Member Price $20.00
CIC Young Professional Member Price $20.00
Non-Member Price $20.00
Non-Member Student Price $20.00