The Commonwealth Conversation

In a recent opinion piece for Canada’s National Post, Canadian publisher and historian, Conrad Black puts forward a controversial idea – that the Commonwealth should become an elite organisation.

Glenys Kinnock is Britain’s Minister of State with responsibility for the Commonwealth. She responded to Doug Saunders recent negative portrayal of the Commonwealth in Canada’s Globe & Mail.

A panel discussing the theme ‘Harnessing Diversity: shaping the future of the Commonwealth’ was held on October 20th from 4-6 pm in the Upper Library at Massey College, University of Toronto.

A Canadian journalist, Doug Saunders, has written for the Globe and Mail about the Commonwealth’s relevance to Canada. He certainly doesn’t pull his punches.

The first of our events in Canada.

The gender and age breakdowns of our polling make for some interesting reading.

It used to be that travelling through the Commonwealth was quick and easy. Now when I travel to the UK, people from countries with no historical ties speed through quicker than Canadians and Australians who share the Queen as head of state!

Today I had an opinion piece published in the Globe and Mail, a Canadian Newspaper, about what our poll results mean there…