VP Research, Senior Fellow
Gerard Lucyshyn is an economist, who has lectured in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University and at St. Mary’s University since 2005.
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Gerard’s academic interests include fiscal, monetary, and economic/trade policies and legislation. He has written articles on a variety of topics, including municipal,
provincial, federal, and international issues. Complementing his academia experience, Gerard has serviced on numerous university, community, and public boards. He has also served a variety of industries as a business and economic consultant.
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David Leis
VP Development and Engagement
David is a long time supporter of the Centre’s mission. He is passionate in his role about inviting and engaging a strong national community in support of the mission of the Frontier. He believes strongly in the importance of good Public Policy for the benefit of the lives of all Canadians.
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He has served in a variety of senior leadership roles in within industry, government, First Nations and education. David studied at Waterloo, Ryerson, Toronto and undertook his Masters in Public Policy at Queen’s University.
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Manitoba Director of Private Partnerships and Engagement
Jenny Motkaluk is a business development consultant based in Winnipeg, MB. Her work focuses on sales, revenue generation, and collaborative engagement for clients across Canada.
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Jenny is the author of a sales training workshop directed at growth stage companies. While always calling Winnipeg home, she has also lived and studied in Montreal and Vancouver. Dedicated to her community, she has served on the City of Winnipeg’s Board of Revision, the Vancouver Ultimate League Board of Directors, as well as, volunteers for numerous other community projects. Jenny earned a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia in 1993.
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Senior Fellow
Rodney Clifton is responsible for directing the Frontier Centre’s research program. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba.
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He received his B.Ed and M.Ed. from the University of Alberta, his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, and his Fil.Dr. from the University of Stockholm. In addition, he has been awarded a Spencer Fellowship from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, a Rh. Award from the University of Manitoba, a R.W.B. Jackson Research Award from the Canadian Educational Researchers’ Association, and both an Edward Sheffield and a Distinguished Research Awards from the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education. He has written for numerous newspapers and journals, including the Canadian Journal of Education, Policy Options,Sociology of Education, the National Post, and the Winnipeg Free Press. His books include Socioeconomic Status, Attitudes, and Educational Performances: A Comparison of Students in England and New Zealand, Authority in Classrooms, Crosscurrents: Contemporary Canadian Educational Issues, and Recent Social Trends in Canada, 1960-2000. His most recent book, What’s Wrong With Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them, was published in 2010 and was written with Michael Zwaagstra and John Long.
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Senior Policy Analyst
Ian Madsen, as an investment and financial analyst based in Surrey, BC, has extensive experience in portfolio and financial analysis.
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He has a BA in Economics from the University of Alberta and an MBA in Finance from the University of Toronto. He has managed institutional investment portfolios, lectured at colleges, managed investment research operations, in North America and overseas, and developed complex financial valuation models. He also ran his own investment counselling firm and advisory newsletter. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a former president of the Saskatchewan and Edmonton CFA Societies. Past projects for the Frontier Centre have included valuations of SaskTel, SaskPower, ATB Financial, and SaskEnergy.
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Research Assistant/Junior Research Associate
Alexandra Burnett is a Research Assistant/Research Associate who graduated from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy Internship Program in 2018. Ms. Burnett is currently studying for Masters in Public Administration at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Senior Fellow
Wendell Cox is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy with expertise in housing affordability and municipal policy.
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In addition, Wendell is Principal of Demographia, an international consultancy based in St. Louis, Missouri specializing in regional and municipal housing policy and related planning issues. The leading global authority on housing affordability and municipal policy, Wendell is co-author of the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Index, which receives more than 1.3 million unique downloads each year. A former member of the Los Angeles Transportation Commission and Amtrak Reform Council, Wendell has consulted extensively on urban planning and transportation issues. He is the author of Toward More Prosperous Cities, a framing essay on the fundamental objectives of cities.
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Senior Fellow
Dr. Marco Navarro-Génie joined the Justice Centre in 2019 as Executive Vice President. Marco earned a BA from Concordia University (Montreal), and MA and PhD from the University of Calgary. He served as president and CEO of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) based in Halifax (2013-2019), and was Vice President of Research at the Frontier Centre (2009-2013).
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Marco also spend two decades in academia, teaching Political Philosophy, Canadian Institutions, and Alberta Provincial Politics. His teaching and pioneering research was recognized, respectively, by a Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (1999) at Mount Royal University and an Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (2004-2006), held at the University of Calgary. He served as Vice-President, Treasurer (Interim), and President of Civitas, and is a former Board Member for the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights and Democracy). He is currently Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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Senior Fellow
Brian Dale Giesbrecht received his education at United College and The University of Manitoba, where he obtained his LLB in 1972. He worked with Walsh, Micay and Co., and then joined Legal Aid Manitoba in 1975 to become Senior Attorney and the first Area Director for western Manitoba in Brandon.
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Appointed to The Provincial Court (Family Division) in 1976, he heard child welfare cases and general family matters until he transfered to the Criminal Division in 1989. During his career he served on the National Family Court Committee, and various provincial court committees. He was an Associate Chief Judge from 1991 to 2005, and he became Acting Chief Judge in 1993. Among the notable cases he heard was the Lester Desjarlais Inquiry. His report strongly criticized the government’s decision to devolve child welfare responsibilities to racially based child-care agencies. Following his retirement from the Bench in 2007, Mr. Giesbrecht has written extensively for various publications. His main theme has been the need to abolish The Indian Act and the separate systems of government that exist in Canada.
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Senior Fellow
Philip Carl Salzman received his B.A from Antioch College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and he served as Professor of Anthropology at McGill University from 1968 to 2018.
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He founded the Commission on Nomadic Peoples of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and its international journal, Nomadic Peoples, for which he received the IUAES Gold Award. In recent years, he has been a Senior Fellow at the University of St. Andrews, an Open Society International Scholar at the American University of Central Asia, an Erasmus Mundus International Fellow at the University of Catania, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia. He has engaged in extensive ethnographic field research in Baluchistan (Iran), Gujarat and Rajasthan (India), and Sardinia (Italy) which has provided the foundation for many articles in academic journals, and for books such as The Anthropology of Real Life: Events in Human Experience (1999), Black Tents of Baluchistan (2000) (winner of the Premio PitrP–Salomone Marino Award), Understanding Culture: An Introduction of Anthropological Theory (2001), Pastoralists: Equality, Hierarchy, and the State (2004), Culture and Conflict in the Middle East (2008), Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israel Conflict (2008), and Thinking Anthropologically 3rd Ed, (2010). His latest book is Classic Comparative Anthropology: Studies from the Tradition (2012). In public affairs, he was a member of Middle East Strategy at Harvard (2008-2010), a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (2004-2012), and is currently a member of the Academic Council of the Canadian Institute for Jewish Studies, a Fellow of the Middle East Forum (2015-), and a member of the Board of Directors of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (2016-). He has published articles and reports in the Middle East Forum, Gatestone Institute, the Canadian Institute for Jewish Research, and the Macdonald Laurier Institute.
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Senior Fellow
Gerry Bowler grew up in Saskatoon and earned his first two academic degrees from the University of Saskatchewan.
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He received his Ph.D. in History from King’s College, London with a dissertation on Protestant political theory of the Tudor period. He is an historian with eclectic interests. His writings range from academic texts on sixteenth-century Europe to the connection between Aristotle and professional wrestling. He is the only historian whose work is included in both The Encyclopedia of Popular Culture and The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. He was the founder of The Centre for the Study of Christianity and Popular Culture at Calgary’s Canadian Nazarene College and taught for 25 years at the University of Manitoba. Bowler is the editor of Music from Within: A Biography of Sophie Eckhardt-Gramatté (University of Manitoba Press, 1985) and The World’s Greatest Christmas Stories (Theodosian Press, 2016); and the author of Europe in the Sixteenth Century, second edition, (Longman, 1989), The World Encyclopedia of Christmas (McClelland and Stewart, 2000), God and The Simpsons: The Spirituality of Springfield, (Dare: 2001), Santa Claus: A Biography (McClelland and Stewart, 2005), Christmas in the Crosshairs: Two Thousand Years of Denouncing and Defending the World’s Most Celebrated Holiday, (Oxford University Press: 2016) and The Kindly Curmudgeon (Theodosian Press, 2016).
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Senior Fellow
David MacKinnon, a native of Prince Edward Island, was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree (honours economics) from Dalhousie University and an MBA from York University.
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He was awarded a Centennial Fellowship by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and York University to study at York, Harvard and Oxford Universities as well as the European Institute of Business Studies. Mr. MacKinnon served as Director, Planning and Economics and Executive Director, Development Strategy in the Nova Scotia Department of Economic Development from 1976 to 1981. He later served in several senior capacities in the Ontario Public Service, the Bank of Montreal and as CEO of the Ontario Hospital Association from 1996 to 2003. Mr. MacKinnon is a Public Member of the Council of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons and is the Chair of its Finance Committee and a member of its Executive, Complaints and Outreach committees. He serves on several Boards of Directors, including the West Park Health Centre. He recently finished my five year term on the Standards Council of Canada and was subsequently elected to the board of the Canadian Standards Association. He has advised the Ontario Chamber of Commerce and other Ontario organizations on fiscal federalism issues particularly on the impact of regional subsidies on recipient and source provinces.
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Senior Fellow
Frances Widdowson is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy and Associate Professor in the Department in the Department of Economics, Justice, and Policy Studies at Mount Royal University. Frances Widdowson received an Honours B.A. and M.A. in political science at the University of Victoria, and a Ph.D. in political science from York University.
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She has taught at a number of universities in Ontario and the Maritimes, and worked for five years as a policy analyst for the Government of the Northwest Territories. Frances uses a political economy perspective in her research on aboriginal and environmental policy, as well as the politics of religion. Her most recent publication (co-written with Albert Howard),
Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation, was short-listed for the Donner Prize. She is currently working on another book (also with Albert Howard) on the social effects of religion.
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Senior Fellow
Tom Adams is an independent energy and environmental advisor.
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He has held a variety of senior responsibilities including Executive Director of Energy Probe from 1996 until 2007, membership on the Ontario Independent Electricity Market Operator Board of Directors, and membership on the Ontario Centre for Excellence for Energy Board of Management. He has been a media commentator for over 20 years. His guest columns have appeared in most major Canadian newspapers. He has been a lecturer in energy studies at University of Toronto and has published several peer-reviewed papers in a range of fields. He has presented expert testimony before many regulatory tribunals in Canada on gas and electricity-related subjects. He has made presentations to Legislative Committees in Ontario and New Brunswick, academic, regulatory and trade conferences, the Atomic Energy Control Board, and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. His profile appears in the Canadian Who’s Who.
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Senior Fellow
Frank Atkins recently retired as Associate Professor of Economics from the University of Calgary.
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Dr. Atkins spent two years at the Bank of Canada as an Economic Analyst. In 1981, he left the Bank of Canada to further his studies in economics at Queen’s University. Dr. Atkins then joined University of Calgary where he taught for more than 30 years. During his tenure, Dr. Atkins had the privilege of supervising the Master of Arts (Economics) thesis of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. As well as publishing many articles in leading economic journals, Dr. Atkins is a frequent commentator on macroeconomics and policy issues for the major national networks.Dr. Atkins then joined University of Calgary where he taught for more than 30 years. During his tenure, Dr. Atkins had the privilege of supervising the Master of Arts (Economics) thesis of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. As well as publishing many articles in leading economic journals, Dr. Atkins is a frequent commentator on macroeconomics and policy issues for the major national networks.
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Senior Fellow
Mary-Jane Bennett is a Senior Fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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Ms. Bennett is a lawyer and an established transportation consultant. She began her career with the Ontario Ministry of Justice and has since practiced law in Manitoba and British Columbia. In 1997, Bennett received an appointment by the Governor in-Council to the newly formed Canadian Transportation Agency where she was involved in a broad range of transportation issues, including grain freight issues. Mary-Jane Bennett served as a Board Member with the Canadian Transportation Agency from 1998 to 2007.
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Senior Fellow
Dr. Patrick Moore is a Senior Fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy with expertise in energy, ecology and prosperity.
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He has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 40 years. Dr. Moore is a Co-Founder of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. Following his time with Greenpeace, Dr. Moore joined the Forest Alliance of BC where he worked for ten years to develop the Principles of Sustainable Forestry that have now been adopted by much of the industry. Today, Dr. Moore focuses on the promotion of sustainability and consensus building among competing concerns. In 2013 he published Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout – The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist, which documents his 15 years with Greenpeace and outlines his vision for a sustainable future.
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Senior Fellow
Roland Renner, Telecom Policy and Regulation, has worked in telecommunications, broadcasting and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
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He has participated in the transition of telecommunications and broadcasting from monopoly to competitive policy and regulatory environments, and has been involved in numerous regulatory proceedings. He held management positions at Bell Canada and Telesat Canada. As a consultant he worked with PwC Consulting and Nordicity Group, he advised clients on new market opportunities in a changing regulatory climate. He has worked for both public and private sector clients in Canada, Germany, Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
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Research Associate
Joseph Quesnel is a research associate at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He received a BA honours in political science and history from McGill University and completed a Master of Journalism degree at Carleton University. Quesnel has over 15 years of experience in print journalism including over three years as lead staff writer at the Drum/First Perspective, a national Aboriginal publication. MORE...
For almost 10 years, Quesnel was a policy analyst at the Frontier Centre where he wrote widely on Indigenous, property rights, and water market issues. He was lead researcher for the Frontier Centre’s flagship Aboriginal Governance Index and he completed an extensive study of the B.C. Nisga’a Nation. Quesnel’s work has been featured in numerous Canadian radio and newspapers outlets. He has been called to provide expert testimony before the Standing Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples and the House’s Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Joseph also served as a program manager at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, overseeing their Indigenous resource economy project. LESS...
Research Associate
Susan Martinuk is a Vancouver-based Research and Communications Specialist who has been a featured columnist in Canadian newspapers for over 20 years. She has published over 1500 OpEd columns, articles and reports on topics related to healthcare, medical technology, bioethics and public policy. As a medical researcher, she and her colleagues achieved a world-first medical breakthrough when they were the first to visualize and record human ovulation.
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In 2012, Susan published the first-ever study on PET (positron emission tomography) imaging in cancer care in Canada. PET is revolutionizing cancer management in every developed country except Canada. The 200-page, peer-reviewed report (
http://www.triumf.ca/pet-report) identifies factors restricting its use and suggests that it could provide more clinically- and cost-effective care for cancer patients. She is also a former radio talk-show host and has served as the ghostwriter and/or editor for six published books. In 2012, Susan was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions to Canadian society through her writing.
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Research Associate
Fergus Hodgson is the executive editor of Econ Americas, a publication and consultancy devoted to the economics of the Americas. In addition, he is a columnist with the Epoch Times, a podcaster and roving editor with Gold Newsletter, and an English-language advisor with Cedice Libertad of Venezuela.
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Previously, he was the founding editor in chief of the PanAm Post and the director of fiscal policy studies for the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina. A triple citizen who has lived in eight countries, his articles have appeared in major outlets in Canada, New Zealand, and the United States, including the Halifax Chronicle Herald, National Business Review, and Fox News. He holds a bachelor of arts in economics from Boston University, a graduate diploma in political science from the University of Waikato, a certificate in Cuban history from the University of Miami, and the Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE) at the B2 level. As a rower, he represented New Zealand at the under-21 level, received an athletic scholarship to attend Boston University, and won the senior single-sculls national title.
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Research Associate
Matthew Lau is a Toronto writer focusing on economic principles and fiscal policy. He has written for the Financial Post and the Fraser Institute. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Commerce, with a specialization in finance and economics, from the University of Toronto.
Research Associate
Eamonn Brosnan is an IT Consultant who has been engaged in the IT industry for 17 years. He has also taught Computers & Technology at SAIT for a period of time and been involved in the Media as a co-owner of a publication.
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Eamonn has a BA in Classical Studies and a post-graduate diploma in Information Technologies. He has been involved with starting and running several companies involved in a variety of interests.
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Research Associate
Randy Boldt is an experienced immigration practitioner and licensed immigration consultant.
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Randy was the principal developer and manager of the highly successful Manitoba Provincial Nominee Program for business, which he managed up until 2006, after which he became the Assistant Deputy Minister of Immigration in Saskatchewan. In 2008, he started his own immigration company – Visamax Ltd. Prior to becoming involved in immigration, he worked for 18 years the field of commercial banking and corporate finance both in Canada and the UK. Randy completed his degree in Agricultural Economics at the University of Manitoba in 1978, and obtained his Masters of Business Administration from Cass Business School (part of the University of London, UK) in 1993.
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