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In the February 8, 2005 Speech
from the Throne, the Government
of British Columbia announced a
new B.C. Competition Council
would be formed to review the
province's competitiveness, identify barriers to economic growth,
and solutions to overcome them that can be taken by
industry or government. On March 30, the Honourable
Gordon Campbell, Premier,
announced the establishment of
the Council, appointing
Dan Miller and
David Thompson as
co-chairs. In addition to the co-chairs, the Council
includes seven other private sector members,
and one government
representative.
There are a
variety of competitive pressures facing British Columbia
industries, small businesses, and investors. The
Council's objective has been to review the province's
competitive position and to recommend workable private
sector and public sector actions to improve British
Columbia's competitiveness.
The Council established Industry
Advisory Committees for 12
sectors: 1) Wood Products
2) Pulp and Paper
3) Mining 4) Oil and Gas 5)
Transportation
6) Construction and Housing 7)
Manufacturing
8) Tourism 9) Film and Media 10)
High-Technology
11) Biotechnology 12)
Professional Services
Each Industry Advisory Committee
provided a background report to
the Council focusing on actions
required to improve
competitiveness in their
respective sectors.
The Competition Council completed its review of several priority industry sectors
in June 2006 and submitted its
report to the provincial government.
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Please send
enquiries to:
B.C. Competition Council
PO Box 9327, Stn Prov Govt
7th Floor, 1810 Blanshard Street
Victoria, BC
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COUNCIL MEMBERS |
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Dan Miller (Co-chair) |
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Dan Miller has a long
history in public life, having served
for 15 years as the MLA for the North
Coast constituency, as well as a number
of terms on the Prince Rupert City
Council. Between 1991 and 2001 Miller
served as Minister of Forests, Minister
of Labour and Advanced Education,
Minister of Employment and Investment,
Minister of Energy and Mines, and
Premier. Miller retired from political
life in 2001, and has worked as a
consultant in the forestry and energy
sectors.
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David A. Thompson (Co-Chair) |
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David Thompson retired as
Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Teck Cominco Limited on April 27, 2005.
He has held this position since August 2001,
following the formal merger of Teck
Corporation and Cominco Ltd. Previously,
Thompson was co-managing director of Messina
(Transvaal) prior to joining Teck
Corporation in 1980 as Chief Financial
Officer, and has held a variety of senior
management positions, including President
and Chief Executive Officer of Cominco from
1995 to 2001. Thompson
graduated in 1960 from the London School of
Economics, England with a B.Sc. in
Economics. In 1976, he completed the Harvard
Business School Advanced Management Program.
Thompson has been a Director of Teck
Corporation since 1980 and Cominco since
1986, and will remain on the Board of Teck
Cominco. He is a Director of the Board of
Fording Inc., co-chair of the BC Competition
Council, and sits on the BC Progress Board
and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation. |
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David Black |
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David Black is
President and Owner of Black Press,
the largest private newspaper
publisher in Canada. Black Press has
approximately 100 newspapers and 16
regional press operations. Company
operations are located mainly in
British Columbia, Alberta,
Washington State and Hawaii. Black
received an Engineering Degree at
UBC in 1969 and an MBA at Western in
1971. On Sept. 9, 2003, Premier
Gordon Campbell appointed Black the
Chair of the B.C. Progress Board. He
currently lives in Victoria.
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Bev Briscoe |
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Bev Briscoe has
over 20 years experience in senior
management positions in the private
sector including Vice President of
Finance for Rivtow Group of
Companies and Chief Financial
Officer for The Jim Pattison Group.
She is Chair of the Industry
Training Authority and serves on the
board of directors for Westminster
Savings and Credit Union and BC Rail
Group of Companies. She resides in
Vancouver.
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Russell Horner |
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Russell J. Horner,
President and Chief Executive
Officer of Catalyst Paper
Corporation, brings international
executive experience, a reputation
for business innovation through
partnerships, and a strong
operational background to his
current position as head of British
Columbia’s largest pulp and paper
company. Horner holds a degree in
chemistry from the University of
British Columbia with advanced
management training from Harvard
Business School and the University
of Auckland. He is past chair
of the Forest Products Association
of Canada and is a director of
several corporate boards including
Catalyst Paper Corporation and
Agrium Inc. Horner and his
wife Carla have two adult daughters
and live in Vancouver. |
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Judi Korbin |
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Judi Korbin is an
Independent Arbitrator and Mediator
who has handled over 1,650 labour/management
disputes in both the private and
public sectors. She has also served
on and chaired numerous government
task forces and commissions. Most
notably, she was Sole Commissioner
for the 1993 Commission of Inquiry
into the Public Service and Public
Sector. Korbin was formerly a Vice
President of employee relations for
Canadian Airlines International Ltd.
where, as a result of airline
mergers, she successfully melded 39
union collective agreements into
seven with no work disruptions.
Prior to her tenure at the airline,
Korbin had represented members of
the B.C. Government Professional
Employees Association, the
Professional Association of
Residents and Interns in B.C., and
The Canadian Airline Flight
Attendants Association. She has also
served as a Director on the boards
of many organizations, both business
and non-profit, including The
Economic Council of Canada, Lester
Pearson College, Family Services of
the North Shore and Canadian
Airlines International. She is
married with two children and six
grandchildren.
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Dr. Daniel Muzyka |
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Dr. Daniel
Muzyka is the Dean of the Sauder
School of Business at UBC, and
the RBC Financial Group
Professor of Entrepreneurship.
He teaches and conducts research
in venture capital
entrepreneurship and corporate
strategy. Prior to joining UBC,
Dr. Muzyka was the IAF professor
of entrepreneurship at INSEAD
(France), where he also served
as Associate Dean of the MBA
program and Director of the 3i
Venturelab. He was previously a
faculty member at Babson
College, and was a visiting
professor at the Harvard
Business School. In addition,
Dr. Muzyka has acted as a
consultant and educator for
several corporations and
executive education programs.
Dr. Muzyka has previous
experience in finance and
corporate strategy at the
General Electric Company, and
spent five years as a strategy
consultant, primarily with
Braxton Associates (Boston). He
has also served as a board
member for several
entrepreneurial and growth
business ventures. Currently,
Dr. Muzyka is a member of the
Premier’s Technology Council,
and serves on the advisory
boards of Chrysalix Energy
Limited Partnership, a
Vancouver-based venture capital
fund, and Siemens Venture
Capital. He holds a BA from
Williams College (Astrophysics),
an MBA from the Wharton School
(Corporate Strategy), and a DBA
from the Harvard Business
School.
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Dr. Gerri Sinclair |
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Dr. Gerri
Sinclair is the former President of
the B.C. Premier's Technology
Council, and was recently appointed
to Industry Canada's
Telecommunications Policy Review
Panel. She is currently an Internet
technology consultant providing
services to industry and government.
She was formerly the General Manager
of MSN Canada, as well as the
founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, an
Internet start-up company recently
acquired by Microsoft. Dr. Sinclair
was also the founding director of
the ExCITE lab at Simon Fraser
University, the first multimedia
technology centre in Canada. She has
served on several government and
corporate boards including Telus, BC
Telecom and the National Information
Highway Advisory Council. She is
currently a Director of the Canadian
Foundation for Innovation and the
Communications Research Council
Canada. She is the recipient of the
YWCA Woman of Distinction award, the
Canadian Women in Communications
Woman of the Year award, the
Canadian Women in New Media Pioneer
award, the Influential Woman in
Business award, as well as the Sarah
Kirke award for the most outstanding
Canadian woman in High Tech. She
holds a Ph.D. as well as a Doctor of
Science, honoris causa, from the
University of British Columbia.
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Roger Stanyer |
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Roger Stanyer was
born in Duncan B.C. in 1944. He grew
up and attended school in the
Cowichan Valley. Stanyer started
work in the forest industry in 1963,
became an officer of IWA Local 1-80
in 1973 and worked for the union in
various elected positions for 20
years. He was a member of the B.C.
Wilderness Advisory Committee and
the B.C. Round table on The
Environment and the Economy. In 1992
he joined the B.C. government as an
special advisor to the Deputy
Minister of Forests and later joined
the Ministry of Labour as Assistant
Deputy Minister, Labour Relations.
He was appointed chair and CEO of
Forest Renewal BC in 1995. Stanyer
left the B.C. government in 2001 and
was elected to the board of
directors of Doman Industries LTD.
He maintains Stanyer Consulting Ltd.
and works as a consultant on
forestry and labour relations
matters. Stanyer is a member of the
board of directors of the B.C.
Forest Discovery Center.
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Dana Hayden |
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Dana Hayden was
appointed Deputy Minister Strategic
Policy, Natural Resources and the
Economy Office of the Premier on
June 1, 2005. Prior to that
Dana served as Deputy Minister and
CEO of the Crown Agencies
Secretariat. Dana has also
served as Assistant Deputy Minister,
Corporate Services for several
Ministries in the BC Government;
Vice President, Policy and Planning
at Forest Renewal BC, Director of
Policy and Planning, Office of the
Premier; and Assistant Deputy
Minister, International Trade.
Dana began her career with the BC
Public Service in 1986 as an
economist for the BC Ministry of
Forests. She was also an
economist with the Canadian Forest
Service. Dana has several
years experience as a forester in
the provinces of Alberta and Quebec,
and in Sweden. Dana has also
owned and operated a small business.
Dana has a B.Sc. in Forest Science,
a M.Sc. in Economics and has
completed the Canadian Securities
Course. Dana's two sons are
Cordell, 13 and Justin, 11. |
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