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Hugh Segal
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Conservative Party of Canada
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Hugh Segal was appointed to the Senate in August of 2005 as a member of the Conservative caucus. He is a former Associate Secretary of cabinet for Federal Provincial Affairs in Ontario and former Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada. Senator Segal served in the private and public sector for thirty-three years prior to his appointment. Posts in his prior career included Secretary to the Policy and Priorities Board of the Ontario Cabinet, Legislative Secretary to the Premier of Ontario, Legislative Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition in Ottawa and Vice Chair of the Advisory Council on Confederation in Ontario. (Partisan activity included seeking a seat in Parliament for the Progressive Conservatives in 1972 and 1974 for the Hon. Robert L Stanfield, serving as National Vice President of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation and seeking the leadership of the then PC party of Canada in 1998, coming second on the first ballot.) He was part of the Ontario delegation negotiating the repatriation of the Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in the early 1980’s and a member of the federal negotiating team on the Charlottetown Accord in the 1990’s. In the past, he sat on the boards of the Atlantic Council of Canada, the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies and as President of the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal.
In the private sector, he served as a senior officer of John Labatt Ltd., in London Ontario, an Associate at Gluskin Sheff and Associates, portfolio managers in Toronto and was Chair of the Tact Group of Companies. He taught at the University of Toronto Law School in the early 1980’s; and has lectured on a pro-bono basis for over twenty years at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He was a regular weekly columnist on public policy for both the Financial Post and the Toronto Star and was a regular panellist on CBC, PBS and CTV. He has authored several books on public policy.
At present, outside his Senate duties, he continues as a Senior Fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, serves as Vice Chair of the Canadian International Council and as Chair of the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation and as a Senior Research Fellow at the McMillan law firm of Toronto and Montreal. The Senator continues on the board of the McGill Centre for the Study of Canada, and the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Science in Ontario as well as various private sector boards. He is a proud graduate in Canadian history from the University of Ottawa
Prior to joining the Senate, Hugh Segal was appointed an Honorary Captain (NAV) of the Canadian Navy and in 2004, received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Military College of Canada. He also received an honourary doctorate from his Alma Mater, the University of Ottawa at the 2009 spring convocation. He was designated a Lifetime Fellow of the Institute for research on Public Policy and in 2003, he was made a member of the Order of Canada
Personal Website: http://sen.parl.gc.ca/hsegal/ ( N.B. This site is not a part of the parliamentary Internet site )
