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About Ronald G Atkey PC QC Professor Ron Atkey teaches National Security Law at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University) and at Western Law (UWO). He was the first Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (the “watchdog”) established under the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act in 1984 to review CSIS and to adjudicate security complaints. Since completing that work, he has served as amicus curiae to the Arar Commission of Inquiry and on several Federal Court anti-terrorism matters, and acts as one of several Special Advocates appointed by the federal Minister of Justice under security certificate cases in Canada. Currently Mr. Atkey holds a Top Secret security clearance. He continues to advise clients on security intelligence and related matters, and is fluent in English with a working knowledge of French. Professor Atkey has had a long and varied career. After graduating in Law from UWO and Yale University in 1966, he taught Constitutional and Administrative Law at three Ontario Law Schools, served as a counsel to the Ontario Law Reform Commission, then was elected as Member of Parliament for St. Paul’s in Toronto for two terms, and was appointed as federal Minister of Immigration in 1979-80. He practiced corporate and regulatory law for thirty years with Osler Hoskin Harcourt LLP, one of Canada’s oldest and best-known law firms, and chaired the Public Law and Regulatory Affairs Department. He has published many articles on protecting human rights, national security, business law, Canada/US relations, regulatory matters and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Mr. Atkey co-authored a book on Canadian Constititional Law used extensively in Canadian law schools in the seventies, and wrote a novel “The Chancellor’s Foot”, a political thriller dealing with politics, crime and security set in Ottawa and Montreal, published in 1995 by Little Brown Canada. Professor Atkey is sought as a speaker by community groups in Ontario to explain security intelligence matters and accountability in a changing society. He lectured at three law schools in China in 2008 on the subject of Anti-terrorism and Human Rights, was a panelist at Duke University on intelligence sharing, and in 2009 at Wilton Park in the UK on the subject of oversight in matters related to counter-terrorism and human rights. He is currently a director of Canadian subsidiaries of Time Warner Inc. and Entertainment One Ltd. In community matters, he serves as Ontario Vice –President of the International Commission of Jurists (Canadian Section) and as Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Foundation |
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