The PAR Jury

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Roy Whitney has served as chief of Tsuu T'ina Nation in southern Alberta for 14 years. He led the negotiations that established the nation's company, Wolf Flat's Ordnance Disposal Corporation, which has international credentials in de-mining and ordnance dispoal. His efforts in creating business opportunities for other Aboriginal people are well known through his appointment in 1996 as chair of the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board.

Perrin Beatty was elected to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in 1972, and in 1979 was appointed Minister of State (Treasury Board). At the time, he was the youngest person ever to serve in a federal Cabinet. He held six additional portfolios in subsequent PC governments. Beatty was appointed president and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1995. He was appointed president and CEO of CME in 1999. He is married and has two sons.

In both her volunteer and professional life, Cynthia Bertolin has worked to make her belief that 'there can be no self-government without self reliance' a reality for Aboriginal people across Canada. She is a member of the Alberta Bar and was appointed to the Provincial Ministerial Justice Advisory Committee. She was also appointed vice-chair of the National Aboriginal Economic Development Board in 1996. Until 1997, she chaired the Board of Apeetogosan Development Inc.

Kelly Lendsay is recognized as one of Canada's foremost designers of innovative Aboriginal stratagems for reaching economic parity with the rest of Canada. A proud Canadian of Metis, Cree and European ancestry, Lendsay earned his MBA in 1993 and became the first director of Aboriginal Business Programs at the University of Saskatchewan in 1996. There he helped to start Canada's first MBA with a specialization in Indigenous management. He is president of the Aboriginal Human Resource Development Council of Canada.

Wayne Dunn's background combines trapping, commercial fishing, logging and prospecting work with a Master's degree in business from Stanford University and more than 15 years as a professional consultant. He was a pioneer of inter-Indigenous development partnerships and has worked with Indigenous organizations throughout the Americas. He is a member of the World Business Academy and a frequent lecturer on community relations, Indigenous development and corporate social responsibility. He is a Stanford Sloan Fellow and president of Wayne Dunn & Associates Ltd of Mill Bay, B.C.