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Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario to Speak at Trent
The
Honourable James K. Bartleman, lieutenant-governor of Ontario, will be
on campus November 7 as part of a panel discussion for Trent University’s
annual Pine Tree Talks lecture series. This lecture is hosted by Trent’s
Native Studies Department, in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health
Association. Other panelists for the event are Michael Degagne of the
Aboriginal Healing Foundation and Native Studies Professor Edna Manitowabi.
A member of the Mnjikaning First Nation, Mr. Bartleman became the province’s 27th lieutenant-governor in March of 2002. He has worked for more than 35 years as part of the Canadian Foreign Service, and has served as ambassador in Israel and Cuba, high commissioner in Cyprus, Australia and South Africa, ambassador to the North Atlantic Council of NATO and ambassador to the European Union. From 1994 to 1998 Mr. Bartleman was foreign policy advisor to the prime minister and assistant secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy, Privy Council Office. He has also served in senior positions in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and opened Canada’s first diplomatic mission in the newly-independent People’s Republic of Bangladesh in 1972. Mr. Bartleman recently published a book called Out of Muskoka.
Bringing the experiences
of his distinguished, multi-cultural career to Trent, Mr. Bartleman has
many insights to share at the Pine Tree Talk on November 7. The primary
focus of his talk will be aboriginal mental health. He will discuss personal
mental health challenges he has faced and how those challenges have shaped
his advocacy role in the realm of mental health.
The talk, called "Legacies of the Past, Aboriginal Mental Health
for the Future," will take the form of a panel discussion. After
official welcome comments are made, Mr. Bartleman will open the session.
Additional panelists will be introduced and an open question-and-answer
portion will follow.
Event hosts will include Janice Bowen, chair of the board of directors for the Peterborough chapter of the Canadian Mental Health Association; Reid Morden, chair of Trent University’s Board of Governors; and Bonnie Patterson, president of Trent University. Also attending will be Mark Graham, executive director of the Peterborough chapter of the Canadian Mental Health Association, and David Newhouse, chair of Trent’s Native Studies Department.
This event is open to everyone and begins at 2:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of Champlain College. For more information, please contact the Native Studies Department at 748-1011, ext. 1466.
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