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2005 PSAC NATIONAL UNITY CONFERENCE"Building the Future: Taking our place in the Union and the world" |
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The conference also opens with the song, “Solidarity Forever.” |
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National Executive Vice-President John Gordon (left) and Regional Executive Vice-President for the North Jean-François Des Lauriers share the task of chairing the Conference. |
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Ninety delegates and about 20 observers and guests attended the three-day-long conference. |
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“True leadership is about service,” says June Veecock, the former director of human rights of the Ontario Federation of Labour, during a panel discussion on leadership. |
Native Women’s Association of Canada President Beverly Jacobs also talked about leadership and how Euro-centric values and views on leadership need to be challenged. |
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John Gordon heads a resolution orientation for new delegates, explaining the rules and procedures of resolution debates. |
Keynote speakers on globalization, Priscilla Settee (left), Director of the Indigenous Peoples Program at the University of Saskatchewan, and Fo Niemi, Executive Director of the Centre for Research-Action on Race Relations. |
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PSAC National President Nycole Turmel gives her address and is later presented with a Métis sash by Conference Steering Committee member Michael Ballard as an appreciation for her contribution to equity issues in the labour movement. |
David Onyalo, the Director of Anti-Racism and Human Rights of the Canadian Labour Congress, gives a message of solidarity. |
The newly-elected representatives of the Equal Opportunities Committee [EOC] and their alternates are sworn in by President Turmel, with the Conference co-chairs looking on.
The representatives and their alternates are [from left to right]: Ram Mudalier (Man 3rd Alternate for the Racially Visible EOC Rep); Mastaki M’Sebuyange (Man Racially Visible EOC Rep.); Raklee Sajnani (Woman 3rd Alternate for the Racially Visible EOC Rep.); Shady Zekry (Man 2nd Alternate for the Racially Visible EOC Rep.); Zillah Piallaq (Woman 3rd Alternate for the Aboriginal EOC Rep.); Vicki Zyzniewski (Woman Aboriginal EOC Rep.); Janice Seto ( Woman 2nd Alternate for the Racially Visible EOC Rep.); Danielle Dubuc (Woman 1st Alternate for the Racially Visible EOC Rep.); André Paul (Man Aboriginal EOC Rep.); Elijah Kaernerk (Man 2nd Alternate for the Aboriginal EOC Rep.); Terri Lee ( Woman Racially Visible EOC Rep.); Wesney Duclervil (Man 1st Alternate to the Racially Visible EOC Rep.); and Michael Ballard (Man 1st Alternate for the Aboriginal EOC Rep.). Not in the photo are Tammy Davidson, Geri Leblanc and Don Jones (Woman 1st Alternate, Woman 2nd Alternate and Man 3rd Alternate for the Aboriginal EOC Rep., respectively).
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Delegates line up at the mic during the resolutions debate. Twelve resolutions were passed at the Conference, many of which will go to Convention. |
Tammy Davidson, Woman 1st Alternate for the Aboriginal EOC Rep., sings a song prior to the closing of the Conference. |