2022 Churchill Dinner
We invite you to join us for the 39th annual Churchill Dinner on November 30, 2022, at Arcadian Court in Toronto at 6:00 p.m.
This year, the Churchill Society will celebrate the Hon. Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada (2003-2006), Member of Parliament for Mount Royal (1999-2015), and lifelong human rights champion and defender.
Our keynote speaker will be John Fraser, speaking on the interconnected legacies of Sir Winston Churchill and Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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The Hon. Irwin Cotler PC, OC, OQ
Irwin Cotler served as the 47th Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 to 2006 in the government of Prime Minister Paul Martin. Mr. Cotler was elected as the Member of Parliament for Mount Royal at a by-election in November 1999 (where he received 92% of the vote) and was re-elected in each of the next five general elections. He did not run in the 2015 election.
As Attorney General Irwin Cotler recommended the appointment of two Justices to the Supreme Court of Canada, Louise Charron and Rosalie Abella. Professor Cotler was a professor of law at McGill University and director of its Human Rights Program until his election to the House of Commons. He is Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, an Officer of the Order of Canada and of the National Order of Quebec.
Keynote Speaker — John Fraser CM
John Fraser is a Canadian journalist, author, and academic who served as the fourth master of Massey College at the University of Toronto from 1995 to 2014. At The Globe and Mail, Mr. Fraser was a dance and theatre critic, a China correspondent, UK-based European correspondent, Ottawa bureau chief, national columnist, and national editor. He was editor of Saturday Night magazine from 1987-1994. He has been a columnist at several newspapers, authored twelve books, and is the founding president and CEO of the National NewsMedia Council, the principal media ethics watchdog in Canada. He is the founding president of the Institute for the Study of the Crown in Canada.
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