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Billions of tax dollars held by foundations out of public scrutiny: AG
OTTAWA - Auditor General Sheila Fraser is raising the alarm over billions of taxpayer dollars channelled into arms-length government foundations not subject to public scrutiny. The lack of oversight means it's possible foundation money could be misused in the same way tax dollars were wasted in the sponsorship scandal, warned opposition MPs. (CP)
In the government report Accountability of Foundations the following foundations are identified..
Canadian Foundation for Climate & Atmospheric Sciences (CFCAS)
John R. Evans, Chair
Chairman of Torstar Corporation
Michel Gervais, Vice-Chair
Lorne A. Babiuk
Alan Bernstein
President, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Aldée Cabana
Dian Cohen
Bernard Coupal
David Dolphin
Monique Frize
Kevin O'Brien Fehr
Director, Basic Research and Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline Inc
Robert A. Phillips
David Pink
Gerri Sinclair
Stella Thompson
Principal, Governance West Inc
Ronald Whelan
Chairman, Archive Committee, Canadian Medical Association
James M. Stanford – Chairman
President, Stanford Resource Management; Retired President and CEO, Petro-Canada and sits on the boards of EnCana Corporation, Inco Limited, NOVA Chemicals, OPTI Canada Inc, Terasen Inc. among others.
T. M. (Mike) Apsey
Michael J. Brown
Angus A. Bruneau Also on the the board of Inco Limited
Alain Caillé
Charles S. Coffey
David Johnston
David Kerr
Ken Ogilvie
Jane E. Pagel
Dee Parkinson-Marcoux
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston Also on the board of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
David Pollock
Jacques Simoneau
H. Arnold Steinberg – Chair
Jeffrey C. Lozon (Vice-Chair)
Jocelyne Dagenais
Cheryl Doiron
Michael Golbey
John H. Malcom
John Thomas McLennan
Marcel Nouvet
Larry R. Ohlhauser
Brian Postl
Kirsten Tisdale
Annual Report 2003 .pdf
Elizabeth M. Davis, Chair
Carolyn Tuohy, Vice-Chair
Alan Bernstein (EX-OFFICIO)
Wendy Brodkin
Sally Brown
Maura Davies
Lise Denis
Ian C. Green (EX-OFFICIO)
Malcolm Maxwell
Arnold Naimark, Past-Chair
Brian D. Postl
Jean-Yves Savoie
Robert Smith
Stephen B. Soumerai
Glenda Yeates
2003 Annual Report .pdf
Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (ICRML)
Gérard Veilleux - Chairman
President of Power Communications Inc. a subsidiary of Power Corporation of Canada, on the Board of directors of Investors Group Inc.
Allan Blakeney
Janet Ecker
Isabelle Landry
Sarah Jean Lea
Paule Leduc
Arthur W. May
Elizabeth Parr-Johnston Also sits on the board of Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology
Sean Riley
Janet Riopel
Margot L. Ritchie
Mitra Sen
Juda Strawczynski
John O. Stubbs
2003 Annual Report .pdf
Bob Rae - Chair and President - Canada – Former Premier of Ontario
His brother John A. Rae is the Executive VP Of Power Corporation of Canada
David Cameron - Canada – University of Toronto, Department of Political Science
Nicholas Haysom - South Africa – Constitutional lawyer, legal and constitutional advisor to Nelson Mandela
Arnold Koller – Switzerland – Former President of Switzerland
Narasimhan Ram - India – Editor-in-Chief, The Hindu
Henning Voscherau – Germany – Lawyer, Former Mayor of the city-state of Hamburg
Michael Zorbas – Australia – Chief Advocate, Property Council of Australia
Rui de Brito Alvares Affonso - Brazil – Economic & Financial Director, SABESP - State of Sao Paolo Sanitation Company
Alex Ekwueme - Nigeria – Former Vice President of Nigeria, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic party of Nigeria
Clarence (Manny) Thomas Jules – Canada – Member, Indian Taxation Advisory Board
Teresa de Madero - Mexico – Mexican Ambassador to Canada
Gil Rémillard - Canada – Former Québec Minister of Justice and Intergovernmental Affairs
Ronald L. Watts – Canada – Principal Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Political Studies at Queens University
Henry G. Friesen - Chairman
Judith Hall - Vice-Chair
Lorne Babiuk
Alan Bernstein
William A. Bridger
Jean Brunet - Secretary
Thomas A. Brzustowski
Michael Raymont
C. Thomas Caskey
Martin Godbout
Kevin M.W. Keough
Bartha Maria Knoppers
Marc Renaud
Calvin R. Stiller
Roy L. Heenan – Chair
Founder and Chair of Heenan Blaikie LLP, CBC Board of Directors,
Director of Kasten Chase,
Chairman of the International Historic Heritage Foundation.
William G. Davis
Former Premier of Ontario. A member of the International Advisory Council of Power Corporation of Canada
Paul Desmarais Jr.
Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada
Louise Frechette
Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations
Alexander Himelfarb
The Clerk of the Privy Council is Canada’s highest-ranking public servant and serves as the Prime Minister’s deputy minister, the Secretary to the Cabinet, and the Head of the Public Service.
Milton K. Wong
Chaviva Hosek
President and CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) Also on the board of directors of Inco Limited, The Leading Edge Endowment Fund, and Maple Leaf Foods, Inc.
Robert Lacroix
Marc LaLonde
Paule Leduc
On the board of Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
E. Peter Lougheed
Former Premier of Alberta
Robert (Bob) Rae Chair & President of Forum of Federations A member of the Canada China Business Council (CCBC) Former Premier of Ontario
Marc Renaud
President of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council and on the Board of Genome Canada
Sean E. Riley
On the Board of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation
Alexandre Trudau
Board of Directors
Richard W. Ivey - (Chair)
Chaviva Hosek - (President & CEO) On the board of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Inco Limited,
Patricia A. Baird - (Vice-Chair)
Bruce H. Mitchell - (Vice-Chair)
Thomas E. Kierans - (Immediate Past Chair)
Peter J.G. Bentley
Evan V. Chrapko
Pierre Ducros
Haig Farris
George A. Fierheller
Pierre Fortin
Anthony R. Graham
Kerry L. Hawkins
Claude Lamoureux
Martin J. Lippert
Trina McQueen
Gilles G. Ouellette
Arthur R. Sawchuk
Allan R. Taylor
Ilse Treurnicht
Graham Scott Q.C.- Chair
Penny Ballem
Rick Roger - Vice-Chair
Brian Postl
Sheila Weatherill
Kevin Empey
Laurent Boisvert
Alice Kennedy
Roberta Ellis
Peter Barrett
Richard Lessard
Ian Green
Ivan Fellegi
Nora Kelly