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APPENDIX A: LIST OF WITNESSES

Organizations and Individuals

Date

Meeting

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Andrew P.W. Bennett, Ambassador Office of Religious Freedom

2014/09/09

32

Peter Boehm, Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

   

Department of National Defence

Thomas J. Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff

   

House of Commons

John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs

   

Rob Nicholson, Minister of National Defence

   

As an individual

Bessma Momani, Associate Professor Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo

2014/11/20

35

Catholic Near East Welfare Association

Carl Hétu, National Director Canada

   

Elias Mallon, External Affairs Officer United States

   

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Rod Sanjabi, Executive Director

   

As individuals

Payam Akhavan, Professor Faculty of Law, McGill University and Kellogg College, Oxford University

2014/11/27

37

Mokhtar Lamani, Former Ambassador United Nations-League of Arab States, Office of the Joint Special Representative for Syria, Damascus

   

Chaldean Catholic Church in Canada

Niaz Toma

   

Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto (Canada)

Sotirios Athanassoulas, Metropolitan Archbishop

   

One Free World International

Majed El Shafie, Founder and President

   

As an individual

Reuven Bulka

2014/12/02

38

Vian Saeed, Member of Iraqi Parliament

 

 

Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International

Khalid Haider, Assistant to the Chairman

   

Omar Haider

   

As individuals

Rabea Allos

2014/12/04

39

Matteo Legrenzi, Professor, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

   

Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Andrew Tabler, Senior Fellow

   

As individuals

Jonathan Dahoah Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

2014/12/09

40

Thomas Farr, Director, Religious Freedom Project, Georgetown University

   

Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East

Emmanuel Joseph Mar-Emmanuel, Diocesan Bishop Diocese of Canada

   

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Andrew P.W. Bennett, Ambassador Office of Religious Freedom

2015/01/27

41

Mark Gwozdecky, Director General Middle East and Maghreb

   

Leslie Norton, Director General International Humanitarian Assistance

   

Donica Pottie, Director Conflict Policy and Security Coherence Secretariat

   

Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development

Daniel Jean, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

2015/01/29

42

Department of National Defence

Thomas J. Lawson, Chief of the Defence Staff

   

House of Commons

John Baird, Minister of Foreign Affairs

   

Rob Nicholson, Minister of National Defence

   

As individuals

Ayad Jamal Aldin Former Deputy of the Iraqi Parliament

2015/02/03

43

Sami Aoun, Full Professor Université de Sherbrooke

   

Salim Mansur, Associate Professor Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario

 

 

Muslim Canadian Congress

Tarek Fatah, Founder

   

As individuals

Geneive Abdo, Fellow Stimson Center

2015/02/05

44

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Senior Fellow Foundation for Defense of Democracies

   

Ellen Laipson, President and Chief Executive Officer Stimson Center

   

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Emmanuel Gignac, Coordinator Northern Iraq

2015/02/17

45

United Nations World Food Programme

Jane Pearce, Country Director

   

World Vision Canada

Martin Fischer, Director of Policy

   

Bart Witteveen, Director, Humanitarian and Emergency Affairs