CDA Institute 20th Annual Seminar: The Way Ahead for Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy
26 February 2004

Synopsis of Seminar and AGM
Colonel Howie Marsh (Retd), Senior Defence Analyst, CDA Institute

Keynote Speaker
The Honourable David Pratt, Minister of National Defence

Theme Speaker
The Responsibility to Protect – Humanitarian Intervention and the Military
General Klaus Naumann (Ret’d), former Chairman NATO Military Committee

Panel Discussion: Policy and Practice – The Capabilities of the Canadian Forces
Dr. Kim Nossal, Queen’s University – From whence we have come – A Foreign Policy/Defence Policy Retrospective
Mr. Stephen Thorne, Canadian Press – Public Expectations, Military Realities – A View from the Outside
Col (Retd) Howie Marsh, Senior Defence Analyst, CDA Institute – Future Capabilities and Limitations of the CF

Speaker
Transformation – The Way Ahead – The Armed Forces of the 21st Century
Admiral E.P. Giambastiani, US Navy, Commander US Joint Forces Command and NATO Supreme Allied Commander

Address
Gen R.R.J. Henault, CMM, CD, Chief of the Defence Staff.

Panel Discussion: Multilaterlism and the CF – UN and Coalitions Roles and Responsibilities”

Dr. David Malone, President International Peace Academy (IPA) – Expectations for the Future – UN and the Security Council
Dr. Ann Fitz-Gerald, Cranfield/RMCS – Security Sector Reform and Post-Conflict Realities
Dr. Sean Maloney, Queen’s/RMC – Whither So-Called Peacekeeping