• LEADERSHIP

• CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY

• PERSPECTIVES FROM CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

• INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY AND LEADERSHIP

• SPEECHES BY THE GOVERNOR GENERAL

Leadership

What is Leadership?

Published by the Centre for Leadership Studies at the University of Exeter and The Windsor Leadership Trust, this report cites the connection between leadership, management and performance, as well as details theories, competencies and the future of leadership.

Leadership in the Making: A History of the Commonwealth Study Conferences by Ian Anderson and Joel Ruimy

Canadian Perspectives on Community

Aboriginal Leadership Institute

While some people may be born to leadership, most of us only acquire over time the experience, education, skills, and qualities characteristic of strong community leaders. The Aboriginal Leadership Institute helps develop these leadership attributes.

LaFontaine-Baldwin Conference Lectures

Through the annual LaFontaine-Baldwin Conference, John Ralston Saul encourages Canadians to come together in a national debate on the future of Canada’s civic culture. By looking back at the historical context of our democratic roots, we are in a better position as a society to discuss the way we imagine ourselves and our evolving democracy.

Perspectives from Conference Speakers

See the 2008 Speeches page.

International Perspectives on Community and Leadership

Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the 2004 Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference

His Highness the Aga Khan discusses Canada in relation to the developing world and its "almost unique position to broaden the scope of her engagement with the developing world by sharing very widely her experience in humane governance to support pluralism, the development of civil society, and meritocratic premises for action."

Speeches by the Governor General

Canadian Rights and Freedoms: 25 Years under the Charter

This speech was delivered at the opening of the Association for Canadian Studies Conference “Canadian Rights and Freedoms: 25 Years under the Charter”. The Governor General said: "Canada is a model of how worlds, cultures, languages, histories and journeys should be interpreted, and because of this, it faces a greater number of challenges that require us to seek nuances. Thanks to the Charter we are celebrating, we can examine these challenges, make a diagnosis, and come up with solutions that focus on the principles we would like to rally around."