{"id":658,"date":"2012-03-16T15:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=658"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"stellar-speakers-for-the-first-annual-riddell-graduate-program-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/stellar-speakers-for-the-first-annual-riddell-graduate-program-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"Stellar speakers for the first annual Riddell Program Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Stellar speakers for the first annual Riddell Program Reception\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>The inaugural cohort of the Riddell Program will mark the end of the academic year on April 2 with a cross-partisan networking reception and panel discussion on <em>&#8220;Driving professionalism in politics: The evolving role of political staffers in Canadian politics.&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp; Keynote speaker is <strong>David McLaughlin<\/strong>, who brings a long view and a wealth of experience to the topic.&nbsp; Mr. McLaughlin was Prime Minister Brian Mulroney&#8217;s last chief of staff and subsequently became chief of staff to New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord.&nbsp; With the election of the Conservative government in 2006, he became chief of staff to Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty.&nbsp; He is currently president and chief executive officer of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding to the discussion are three panelists from across the political spectrum.&nbsp; <strong>Anne McGrath<\/strong> was chief of staff to NDP leader Jack Layton, and one of the architects of the party&#8217;s ascension to the Official Opposition.&nbsp; She is currently chief of staff to interim NDP leader Nycole Turmel.&nbsp; <strong>Edward (&#8220;Eddie&#8221;) Goldenberg <\/strong>was chief of staff to Prime Minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien and is the author of <em>The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa<\/em>.&nbsp; He is currently a partner with Bennett Jones LLP.&nbsp; <strong>Dimitri Soudas <\/strong>was director of communications for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and is now director of communications for the Canadian Olympic Committee.&nbsp; The discussion will be moderated by TVOntario&#8217;s <strong>Steve Paikin.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will be held at the Rideau Club, 99 Bank Street, 15th floor, from 6-8:30 p.m.&nbsp; For additional information, please contact <a href=\"mailto:ikorbabi@connect.carleton.ca\">ikorbabi@connect.carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural cohort of the Riddell Program will mark the end of the academic year on April 2 with a cross-partisan networking reception and panel discussion on &#8220;Driving professionalism in politics: The evolving role of political staffers in Canadian politics.&#8221;&nbsp; Keynote speaker is David McLaughlin, who brings a long view and a wealth of experience [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"event-lecture-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}