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Thursday, May 28, 2015
Security Underground: Financing Groundwater
Mapping and Monitoring in Canada
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University of Toronto
May 28, 2015
11:45am – 5:30pm EDT
AGENDA
AGENDA
11:45am
REGISTRATION AND LIGHT LUNCH
12:30pm
Welcome and Introductions
Adele Hurley – Director, Program on Water Issues, Munk
School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
12:35
Canadians’ Views on Groundwater
Issues and Policies
Nik Nanos – Chairman, Nanos Research Group
12:50
Destined to Fail? Groundwater
Management in Canada
Ralph Pentland – President of Ralbet Enterprises Inc.
1:10
Panel Discussion
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Bruce Pardy – Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s
University
Owen Saunders − Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute of
Resources Law Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
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Hon. Ian Binnie – Counsel, Lenczer Slaght
Randy Christensen − Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice Canada
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Q&A
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Security Underground: Financing
Groundwater Mapping and
Monitoring in Canada
David McLaughlin – Strategic Advisor on Sustainability to
the Dean of Environment, University of Waterloo
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Harry Swain – Associate Fellow, Centre for Global
Studies, University of Victoria (video commentary)
Eric Hodgins – Manager, Hydrogeology and Source
Water, Regional Municipality of Waterloo
John Challinor − Director of Corporate Affairs, Nestlé
Waters Canada
Wayne Dybvig − President, Saskatchewan Water
Security Agency
Lorne Taylor – Chair, Alberta Environmental
Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Agency
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Q&A
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Wrap up and Acknowledgements
Adele Hurley
Audience
4:30 – 5:30 pm RECEPTION – MUNK SCHOOL
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
David McLaughlin
Strategic Advisor on Sustainability to the Dean of Environment, University of Waterloo
David McLaughlin is one of Canada’s leading experts and commentators on politics, public policy,
and sustainability. He has worked for prime ministers, premiers, and ministers as a chief of staff
and deputy minister at both the federal and provincial levels of government.
David was President and CEO of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
from 2007-12. He led a rejuvenation of the NRTEE turning it into a dynamic, high-performing
government agency delivering high-quality, innovative, and original-research reports on climate
change impacts, carbon pricing, water conservation, oil sands, GHG best practices, the Kyoto
Protocol, and sustainable development processes.
During this period, the NRTEE delivered more reports and convened more stakeholder sessions
than during any previous five-year period of the Round Table. It gained a reputation as a neutral
and trusted convener on sustainable development. David wrote a book on the 1993 Canadian
election campaign and writes regular commentaries for the Globe and Mail and Huffington Post.
He has been published in the Toronto Star, Macleans, CBC, and Postmedia.
As Strategic Advisor on Sustainability to the Faculty of Environment, David works with faculty,
staff, and students to promote the original work being done at the University of Waterloo and
offer his insights and experience. (UW news release link)David has a B.A., Honours from Mount
Allison University, an M.A. in International Affairs from Carleton University, and an M.B.A.
from the University of Bath, in the United Kingdom. David is an Honourary Fellow of the Royal
Canadian Geographic Society. He is a volunteer advisory board member to Canada 2020 and the
Canadian Energy Pipelines Association.
Ralph Pentland
President of Ralbert Enterprises Inc.
Ralph Pentland is currently President of Ralbet Enterprises Inc., where he has been active in
consulting on a variety of water and environmental policy issues. From 1978 to 1991, he was
Director of Water Planning and Management in the Canadian Department of the Environment.
In that capacity, he was responsible for overseeing numerous Canada-U.S. and FederalProvincial agreements and arrangements, and was the prime author of the Federal Water
Policy that was tabled in Parliament in 1987. With respect to Great Lakes issues, he served as
Canadian Co-Chairman of the IJC’s Diversions and Consumptive Uses Study Board (1978-1982),
the IJC’s Protection of the Great Lakes Study Team (1999-2000), the IJC’s International Water
Uses Review Task Force (2002-2003), and the IJC’s Ten Year Review Committee, Protection of
the Great Lakes (2014-2015). Over the past 4 years, he has been a member of the Government
of the Northwest Territories team negotiating a transboundary water agreement between the
NWT and Alberta. Between 1991 and 2000, he worked on water and environmental policy
issues in a number of countries, including Canada, the United States, Venezuela, Indonesia,
Poland, China and India. Since 2000, he has collaborated with a number of non-governmental
and academic organizations, and in 2013 he co-authored the book “Down the Drain: How We
Are Failing to Protect our Water Resources”.
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PANELISTS
Ian Binnie
IAN BINNIE, C.C., Q.C. , Council, Lenczner Slaght.
One of Canada’s most respected advocates, the Honourable Ian Binnie served for nearly 14 years as
a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. When he retired in 2011 he was described by The Globe
and Mail as “arguably the country’s premier judge”and by La Presse as “peut-être le juge le plus
influent au Canada dans la dernière décennie.” During his time on the country’s top court (as only
the third modern Justice appointed directly from the bar) Ian authored more than 170 opinions,
including on landmark cases involving issues of patent interpretation and validity, protection
of trade-marks, media law, commercial disputes, punitive damages, expert evidence and many
aspects of constitutional, criminal and administrative law. In his role as Counsel with Lenczner
Slaght, Ian shares strategic and practical advice, as well as his dispute resolution expertise, with his
colleagues and the firm’s clients. In doing so he draws not only on his judicial insights, but also his
wealth of courtroom experience as one of Canada’s top litigators. Over the course of three decades,
he argued cases in most of the common law provinces and appeared regularly before the Supreme
Court on a range of constitutional, civil and criminal matters. Throughout his career as a litigator,
Ian has often taken on public service roles as well. In the early 1980s he served for four years
as Canada’s Associate Deputy Minister of Justice. He was later appointed Special Parliamentary
Counsel to the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on the Meech Lake
Accord. An elected member of the International Commission of Jurists, he has appeared before the
International Court of Justice and various international tribunals in governmental litigation matters,
and has acted as Canadian representative in high-profile disputes involving France and the U.S.
John Challinor
Director of Corporate Affairs, Nestlé Waters Canada
John Challinor II is Director of Corporate Affairs, Nestlé Waters Canada. He is also a member
of the Company’s leadership team. Mr. Challinor is responsible for Nestlé Waters’ day-to-day
corporate communications and public affairs activities in the Canadian marketplace.
He joined Nestlé Waters in June 2008 in his current position. Mr. Challinor brings more than
29 years of corporate and marketing communications experience to the role, having served
in executive and senior advertising, industry and government affairs and public relations roles
with Amdahl Canada Limited, Compaq Canada Limited, IBM Canada Limited and Sony of Canada
Limited. He began his career as a newspaper and television reporter and editor in the Southern
Ontario market.
Mr. Challinor holds a Bachelor of Applied Arts degree in Journalism from Ryerson University, an
Accredited Public Relations (APR) designation from the Canadian Public Relations Society and a
Certificate in Advertising from the Institute of Canadian Advertising.
He is a former part-time municipal councillor (15 years) with the Corporation of the Town of
Milton, Canada’s fastest-growing community. He is a former member of the Regional Municipality
of Halton’s Waste Management Subcommittee (18 years), where he was involved in siting a
landfill and establishing curbside recycling in that municipality. He is also a former member of the
Communications Committee (12 years), Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC);
former member, The Voluntary Sector Network Support Program National Advisory Committee
(VOLNET), Government of Canada (4-year Government appointment); and former member
of the Board of Directors (3 years), Milton Hydro Holdings Inc. Professionally, he is Chairman
of the Canadian Beverage Container Recycling Association; President of Alberta Beverage
Council; and a member of the Board of Directors of Encorp Pacific Inc. and the Alberta Beverage
Container Recycling Corporation; Chairman, Environment Committee, Canadian Bottled Water
Association; and member, Environment Committee, Canadian Beverage Association; and also
serves the Canadian Public Relations Society nationally as an APR examiner.
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Randy Christensen
Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice Canada
Randy Christensen is a staff lawyer with Ecojustice Canada where he works on environmental
law and policy issue and focuses on water law. He has argued cases concerning the protection
of rivers, water supply management, species at risk and aboriginal rights. He has practiced
in Canada and the United States. Randy is also a research associate at the POLIS Water
Sustainability Project at the University of Victoria and a co-author of an upcoming report looking
at groundwater management in the context of California and the ongoing drought.
Wayne Dybvig
President, Saskatchewan Water Security Agency
Wayne was born and raised in Saskatchewan. He has over 35 years experience in the water
sector with Governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Canada . He has been involved in most
areas of water management including major infrastructure planning and construction, ground
and surface water allocation, watershed planning and, flood forecasting and flood mitigation
planning. He had the opportunity to lead development of a watershed plan for the Tarim River
Basin in China through a CIDA project. Has been a member of numerous interjurisdictional
water management boards including the Prairie Provinces Water Board, Mackenzie Basin Board,
International Souris River Board and Canadian Co-chair of the International Red River Board. He
was a past president of the Saskatchewan Watershed Authority and is currently President of the
newly established Saskatchewan Water Security Agency. He is a professional engineer and holds
a M.Sc. in Hydrology.
Eric Hodgins
Manager, Hydrogeology and Source Water, Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Eric Hodgins, M.Sc., P.Geo., Manager, Hydrogeology & Source Water, Regional Municipality of
Waterloo, Transportation and Environmental Services, Water Services Division. Mr. Hodgins
has been employed at the Regional Municipality of Waterloo for 20 years and for most of that
time has directed implementation of the Region’s Water Resources Protection Strategy and
quarterbacked its’ aquifer management program. In 2004, he was a member of the Technical
Experts Committee on Source Water Protection for the Ministry of the Environment and has
been an active participant in the development and implementation of the Clean Water Act since
its inception. Mr. Hodgins has a Master of Science degree from the University of Waterloo in
hydrogeology and is a professional geoscientist.
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Adèle Hurley, C.M., FRSC
Director, Program on Water Issues, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
Adèle Hurley is the Director of the Program on Water Issues at the Munk School of Global Affairs
at the University of Toronto. In the 1980s, during the early days of the Reagan Administration,
Adèle moved to Washington and co-founded the Canadian Coalition on Acid Rain. For several
years she worked on a successful campaign that brought about amendments to the US Clean
Air Act, as well as regulations that reduced acid rain-causing pollutants from large Canadian
emitters. In the early 1990s she was appointed to the Board of Ontario Hydro. In 1995, she was
appointed by the Prime Minister’s Office to serve as Canadian Co-Chair of the International
Joint Commission, which oversees Canada/US Boundary water issues under the Boundary
Waters Treaty of 1909. Adèle has served as a member of the Canadian Federal Government’s
International Trade Advisory Committee – Task Force on Environment and Trade Policy, the Board
of Directors of the Ontario Power Authority, and the Water Advisory Board of the Columbia
Basin Trust.
She is Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Nik Nanos, FMRIA
Chairman, Nanos Research Corporation
A trusted researcher and strategic advisor, Nik is regularly called upon by senior executives
to provide counsel on a wide range of issues including corporate mergers, public advocacy
campaigns, reputation management and regulatory issues.
In addition to leading the Nanos team, which conducts research in Canada and the United States,
he is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington
D.C., and a Research Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Nik has
also been elected a Fellow of the MRIA (FMRIA), the highest professional designation in the
marketing research industry in Canada.
He has among the most distinguished and reliable track records as a researcher. Nik is also the
senior analyst for the Bloomberg-Nanos Canadian Consumer Confidence Index, which measures
consumer sentiment on a weekly basis and whose data is streamed to Bloomberg clients.
He currently serves on the Editorial Board for the Canadian Journal of Professional Communication
at McMaster University, and is a former president of a leading national government relations
firm. The unique combination of advanced research skills, communications expertise, and his
knowledge in advancing client interests make Mr. Nanos one of Canada’s leading strategists.
Bruce Pardy
Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
Bruce Pardy is Professor of Law at Queen’s University. He has written extensively on
environmental governance, ecosystem management, water policy, climate change and
environmental liability. His forthcoming book is Ecolawgic: The Logic of Ecosystems and the Rule
of Law. He has taught environmental law at law schools in Canada, the United States and New
Zealand, and practiced litigation at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto. Last year he retired
from the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal where he sat for a decade as an adjudicator
and mediator, deciding such cases as Nestlé Canada v Ontario (Ministry of the Environment).
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PANELISTS
Owen Saunders
Senior Fellow, Canadian Institute of Resources Law Faculty of Law, University of Calgary
Owen Saunders was Executive Director of the Canadian Institute of Resources Law for over two
decades. Since 2012 he has been a Senior Fellow in the Institute and is an Adjunct Professor in
the Faculty of Law, University of Calgary. His main areas of interest include natural resources
policy, international trade law, energy law, transboundary water law, and environmental and
constitutional law. His publications include work on such topics as The Uruguay Round of GATT
and Economic Regionalism; NAFTA and the North American Agreement on Environmental
Cooperation; The Mexico Factor in North American Free Trade; Legal Aspects of International
Diversions; Energy, Natural Resources and the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement; and
Interjurisdictional Issues in Canadian Water Management. His recent research has included work
on domestic and transboundary water law and policy, and problems associated with resource
development and federalism.
Harry Swain
Associate Fellow, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria (video commentary)
Harry Swain is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria.
After posts at the universities of Toronto, Cambridge and B.C., and at the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria), Dr. Swain served for 22 years in
the federal government, ending as deputy minister of Indian and Northern Affairs and later
Industry. Responsibility for such disparate areas is a function of Ottawa’s longstanding policy
of alphabetical assignments. Leaving Ottawa in 1996, Swain became a director of the merchant
bank Hambros in London and CEO of its Canadian subsidiary. On Hambros’ acquisition by a large
but sleepy French bank, he joined the public policy consultancy Sussex Circle as a partner and
headed its Toronto office. He chaired the Research Advisory Panel for the Walkerton Inquiry
and the subsequent Ontario Expert Panel on Water and Wastewater. In 2005 he moved to
Victoria and became associated with its University, which had earlier awarded him an LL.D. for
contributions to Canadian science policy. Swain also has a real PhD, in economic geography,
from Minnesota. His recent book, Oka, has received wide acclaim. Recently, he chaired the joint
federal-provincial review of Site C, an $8 billion hydroelectric proposal.
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Lorne Taylor
Chair, Alberta Environmental Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Agency
Lorne Taylor received his Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate degrees from the University of
Calgary. Lorne held tenured academic positions at the University of New South Wales,
Australia, Memorial University of Newfoundland and the University of Saskatchewan from
1970 to 1979. In 1979, he left the University to return home to his family’s cattle, grain
and construction businesses. He worked in the family businesses until 1993 when he was
elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the riding of Cypress-Medicine Hat.
From 1993 to 1997, he served as the Chairman of the Alberta Research Council where
he oversaw a fundamental change in the organization in terms of funding and role of the
organization as well as the transition and rehiring of the C.E.O. After being re-elected in
1997, he was appointed the Minister of Science and Technology and in 1999 the Minister
of Science and Innovation. During this four year period, he provided and implemented a
vision of a restructured innovation system. This resulted in the creation of several research
organizations including the Alberta Energy Research Institute and the Alberta Agriculture
Research Institute. He also convinced the Cabinet to create the Alberta Supernet with an
initial investment of $250,000,000 with matching dollars from Bell.
In 2001, Lorne was again re-elected and appointed the Minister of the Environment.
During this time, the Water for Life Strategy was created which remains the government’s
water strategy to this day. He was also responsible for the creation of the Electronic
Recycling in Alberta which was the first of its kind in Canada. From 2004 to 2007, he wrote
several reports for the Government of Alberta on a contract basis. In 2008, he was asked
to establish and create a water research institute. The government provided initial funding
of $30,000,000 and the Alberta Water Research Institute was born. Lorne was responsible
for the appointment of the Management Advisory Board and hired the initial staff. He
completed that role in April of 2011.
Lorne contributes comprehensive public policy and resource strategy experience to the
Alberta WaterSMART team. His excellence in consultation and engagement, defining public
policy, interpersonal and negotiating skills in developing policy, and effectively using the
expertise of others cannot be overstated. Lorne currently chairs the Alberta Environmental
Monitoring Evaluation and Reporting Agency.
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