Ottawa Symposium
“Leadership, Citizenship and
Nation Building for our Times –
Is There a Role for Officer Training in Universities?”

On the evening of October 21,2009 a unique symposium took place involving key members from the university, government and military communities, as well as business and student representatives from across the country focussing on the topic, “Leadership, Citizenship and Nation-Building - Is There a Role for Officer Training in Universities?"

Panelists who took part in this symposium were Jack Granatstein -Author and Historian, Donald Wallace -Executive Director, Ontario Center for Engineering and Public Policy, John Scott Cowan - Former Principal, Royal Military College and President of the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, George Roter - Co CEO Engineers Without Borders and Dr. Douglas Bland - Chair Of Defence Management Studies, Queen’s University. Discussion was moderated by Mercedes Stephenson - Military Analyst and Vice President, Breakout Educational Network.


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NO COUNTRY FOR YOUNG MEN Video Clip
In a by-gone era, the bells at Canadian universities once rang out in tribute for students in uniform, when young people received army, navy and air force training on campus. Through the decisive decades of the 20th Century, the programs of the Canadian Officers Training Corps produced leaders of business, politics and the military. Then, in 1968, the COTC was suddenly abolished. No Country for Young Men revisits the memories of Canada’s lost tradition of university military training when citizenship, leadership and service were part of a university education.
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Panelists from left to right: Donald Wallace, Douglas Bland, Jack Granatstein, John Scott Cowan, George Rotor and Mercedes Stephenson
 
Dr. Douglas Bland
 
John Scott Cowan
 
John Richmond - Director of Community Outreach and Mercedes Stephenson - Vice-President Breakout Educational Network
 
Panelists fielded questions from a number of students in the audience.

 

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