Recent Years
He re-joined Osler as Counsel in 2000.
He was the Chairman of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Chancellor of Mount Allison University, and Chairman of AT&T Canada Corporation. He was a corporate director for Canadian National Railway and is currently a member of the board of the Maple Leaf Foods, Inc.. He is a former Governor of the University of Waterloo.
He was chairman of the Ontario Government's Crawford Panel on a Single Canadian Securities Regulator. Crawford acted as the lead negotiator for resolution of the Canadian financial institutions' crisis in asset-backed commercial paper, which was primarily caused by the fear created by the collapse in the subprime mortgage market in the United States in 2007. http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/cms/index.cfm?group_id=1230 (Imperial Tobacco, Imasco, and the Smuggling of Cigarettes into Canada)
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