LEGACY ADVISORY COUNCIL (1997-2008)

We would like to thank all of the individuals listed below for their support and advice on the promotion and development of the Institute from its founding in 1997 to the Advisory Council's retirement in 2008. For the record, it should be noted that Institute releases during this period did not reflect the views of any particular member of the Council, but expressed only the views and ideas of their authors or the public policy positions of the Institute itself.

It has been a long journey driven by a staunch belief in the vision and mission of the Institute as a means of promoting a forward thinking approach to public policy, as well as a way of examining those fundamental perennial questions with which men and women have struggled spiritually and intellectually in their daily lives over the millennia. Inspired by the following words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the work of the Institute and its development will continue for the public good.

"Let truth appear but once to a single soul, and nothing can ever stop it from invading everything and setting everything ablaze."

Rose Andrachuk, Barrister and Solicitor, Politician, Former Chair of the Toronto Catholic District School Board

Naim Attallah, Former Director of Astrey of Bond Street, Publisher and Author, London, England

Nicholas Belak, MBA, Retired Public Servant and Investment Analyst and Founding Member of the Metamode Institute

Charles W. Conn, Businessman, Author, and Politician

Dr. Albert Francis Fiorino, Canadian Educator, Author, and Founder of the Metamode Institute

Eleanor S. Vojtech Fiorino
, Nursing Educator and Case Manager with the Central West CCAC and Founding Member of the Metamode Institute


Dr. Samuel Gregg, DPhil (Oxon.), Director of Research, Center for Academic Research, Acton Institute, USA

Dr. Joseph Gulsoy, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto, Internationally Renowned Scholar in Medieval Studies

Dr. Giuseppe Gori, Leader of the Family Coalition Party of Ontario

Elias Helewa, Retired Businessman, Author, and Founding Member of the Metamode Institute

Rima Hindo, CA, MBA, Accountant, Former Internal Auditor with the Royal Bank of Canada, Consultant

Cahalane (Carla) Jennings, Educator, Author and Poet, Victoria, Australia

The Hon. John C. Major , QC, LLD, Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and currently Counsel with Bennett Jones LLP

Peter Edward O'Rourke , Barrister, Judge, Politician, USA

Imam Abdul Hai Patel, Chaplin at the University of Toronto, Co-ordinator of the Canadian Council of Imams, Former Member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission

Joe Peschisolido, Peschisolido Company--Barristers and Solicitors, Vancouver, BC, Former MP and Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen's Privy Council and Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Hon. Stephane Dion, PC, MP and Founding Member of the Metamode Institute


+Isabel Showler
Society of Friends


Dr. Michael A. Stephen
Watson Wyatt Canada, Former President of  Aetna Insurance Company of Canada
, and Past Chair of Aetna International

John Vojtech Stephens, LLB, QC, semi-retired, formerly a Partner with McMillan Binch LLP and Stephens French McEwan LLP, Past Honourary Consul of the Slovak Republic, and Founding Member of the Metamode Institute

The Hon. Peter Van Loan, PC, MP, York-Simcoe, Minister of Public Safety, and Past Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Minister for Democratic Reform