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Members of the Expert Panel
Richard Van Loon, Chair of the Expert Panel on Access to Historical Census
Records
- President, Carleton University, Ottawa
- Formerly: Associate Deputy Minister, Health Canada, Ottawa; Associate
Deputy Minister of Indian and Northern Development, Ottawa. Has also
held senior positions in the federal departments of Energy, Mines and
Resources, Treasury Board and Ministry of State for Social Development.

The Honourable Lorna Marsden
- President and Vice-Chancellor, York University, 1997-
- B.A. (University of Toronto); Ph.D. (Princeton); Hon. LL.D. University of
New Brunswick, University of Winnipeg, Queen's University and
University of Toronto)
- Formerly: Member of Senate of Canada; 1984-1992; Chair, Senate
Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology; Professor of
Sociology, University of Toronto, 1972-1992; President and Vice-Chancellor, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1992-1997; Member of Research
Council, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; currently Director; the
Laidlaw Foundation, the Institute for Work and Health, the Canada-U.S.
Fulbright Commission; the Centre for Education and Development in
Population Activities, U.S.A.

John McCamus
- Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto
- Member, Canadian Association of Law Teachers
- Formerly: Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
- Research Director, Commission on Freedom of Information and Individual
Privacy; Director, Canadian Civil Liberties Association; Member Ontario
Law Reform Commission; Member of the National Statistics Council;
Editor-in-Chief Osgoode Hall Law Journal; Editor, Freedom of
Information: Canadian Perspectives, 1981 and Surveillance and
Accountability in a Democratic Society, 1989, The Law Restitution, 1990

The Honourable Gérard V. LaForest, Q.C.
- Justice, Supreme Court of Canada (1985-97)
- Distinguished Legal Scholar-in-Residence, Faculty of Law, University of
New Brunswick; Counsel, Stewart, McKelvey, Sterling, Scales, St. John
and Fredericton; and Member of the New Brunswick Task Force on
Aboriginal Issues
- Formerly: Justice, New Brunswick Court of Appeal and frequent consultant
to federal and provincial governments; Adviser to Special Counsel on
Constitution to the Minister of Justice and the Prime Minister

Chad Gaffield
- Director, Institute of Canadian Studies and Professor of History,
University of Ottawa
- Vice-President of the Canadian Historical Association (to be President,
2000-2001)
- Former President of the Humanities & Social Sciences Federation of
Canada representing more than 25,000 scholars across the country

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