Bob RaeBob Rae will deliver a keynote address at 11 a.m. today in Ambassador Auditorium.

Bob Rae to address Windsor Law conference

A former premier of Ontario and interim leader of the federal Liberal party will be on campus today to deliver a keynote address at a conference being sponsored by Windsor Law.

Bob Rae will deliver a lecture for the law faculty’s 2013 career conference The Law and Beyond: Justice at Work. His address will be at 11 a.m. in Ambassador Auditorium.

Rae was sworn in as Ontario’s first NDP premier in October of 1990, but his government was unable to sustain its popularity and lost the next election in 1993. He resigned from the NDP in 1998, but returned to politics in 2005, joining the federal Liberal party, and winning a by-election to represent Toronto Centre in 2008. In the spring of 2011, following the resignation of Michael Ignatieff, he was chosen as the party’s interim leader, remaining in that position until Justin Trudeau took over earlier this year.

He left parliament in June to serve as chief negotiator and counsel for the Matawa First Nations in Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire. He’s also a distinguished senior fellow at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto, where he earned his law degree.

The conference’s afternoon panel discussions will cover subjects including race and the law, “people law” and aboriginal law and justice.

Some of the panelists include Alok Mukherjee, chair of the Toronto Police Services Board, who will discuss his efforts to promote community-based policing in a highly multicultural and multiracial environment; David Mitchell, director at the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services, who will discuss his experience in the anti-racism unit, where he was responsible for assisting in the implementation of recommendations made in the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System report; and Mandy Wesley, senior advisor of the Public Engagement, Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

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