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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">February 16, 2007 <i>(1:30 p.m. EST)</i><br>
No. 26</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-weight: bold">APPOINTMENT TO THE ROOSEVELT CAMPOBELLO
INTERNATIONAL PARK COMMISSION</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of the Atlantic
Canada Opportunities Agency, today announced the appointment of Senator Michael
Meighen as a Canadian alternate member of the Roosevelt Campobello International
Park Commission (RCIPC).</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">“Senator Meighen has had a distinguished legal and political career,” said Minister
MacKay. “I am certain he will be a valuable member of this unique institution.”</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">The Roosevelt Campobello International Park was established in 1964 by a treaty
between Canada and the United States. The park, on Campobello Island, New
Brunswick, is the location of the summer home once used by former U.S. President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It symbolizes the close relations between Canada and the
United States. More than 130,000 people visit the park annually, touring the historic
Roosevelt residence and enjoying its interpretive exhibits and nature trails. The RCIPC,
which is charged with administering the park, consists of six members, three of whom
are appointed by the Government of Canada and three by the Government of the
United States.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">- 30 -</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">A biographical note on the appointee is attached.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">For further information, media representatives may contact:</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Foreign Affairs Media Relations Office<br>
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada<br>
613-995-1874<br>
</span></span><a href="https://bac-lac.wayback.archive-it.org/web/20070220213050/http://www.international.gc.ca/"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="text-decoration: underline">http://www.international.gc.ca</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-weight: bold">BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-weight: bold">Senator Michael Meighen</span> (Certificat d’études françaises, University of Geneva, 1957;
BA, McGill University, 1960; LL.L (cum laude), Université Laval, 1963) was appointed to
the Senate in 1990. He has participated in various committees, including the Standing
Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce; the Standing Senate Committee
on National Security and Defence (Deputy Chair); the Senate Subcommittee on
Veterans Affairs (Chair); the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries; the Special Joint
Committee on Canada’s Defence Policy (1994); and the Special Joint Committee on a
Renewed Canada (1991–1992). In the mid-1980s, Senator Meighen was Legal Counsel
to the Deschenes Commission on War Criminals. He is also Counsel to the law firm
Ogilvy Renault, formerly Meighen Demers, and remains a member of the McGill
University Board of Governors, and a director of the Cundill Funds, Sentry Select
Capital Corp., and J.C. Clark Ltd. of Toronto. In 2004, Senator Meighen became the
Canadian Chair of the Atlantic Salmon Federation, which promotes conservation
efforts. He is Past Chair of the Stratford Festival, current Chair of the T.R. Meighen
Family Foundation and Chancellor of the University of King’s College in Halifax, Nova
Scotia.</span></span></span></p>
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