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Libert@s online: Issue 9
January 2003

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Best Wishes for the New Year

As we begin the new year, our best wishes are marked by a deep sense of worry. Incivility is spreading throughout our societies and the conditions that ensure our safety and shared development are regressing. In this context, the struggle for the full respect of political, economic and social rights for all and the means to implement these rights are the main ingredients for peace in our times. Thank you to all the friends of Rights & Democracy for your support.

In December, Rights & Democracy sadly bid farewell to two of its board members, David Matas, a Canadian lawyer based in Winnipeg with an expertise in immigration and refugee laws; and Suzanne Laporte, a career diplomat currently deputy minister at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. We wish them success and thank them for their exceptional contribution to the mandate of Rights & Democracy.

I would also like to welcome our three newest board members: Charles Peter Turner, Rebecca J. Cook and Alexander Wayne MacKay, who were appointed by the Government in Council for a term of three years.

Rebecca J. Cook, a professor at both the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health at Columbia University, has worked extensively in the area of international human rights law, with a strong focus on reproductive and women's rights.

Alexander Wayne MacKay, President and Vice-Chancellor at Mount Allison University, is a native Nova Scotian, former Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission, and founding director of the Law Programme for Indigenous Blacks and Mi'kmaq at Dalhousie University.

Charles Peter Turner is a lawyer and mediator practicing in rural Quebec. Since the late 1960s, he has taught at various universities in Ontario and Quebec, in human rights and international law.

Jean-Louis Roy, President

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