Ian Brodie
 Ian Brodie     ( Political scientist) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | July 25, 1967 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Canadian | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | • McGill University • University of Calgary | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Canadian Global Affairs Institute | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Conservative Party of Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
Attended the 2008 Bilderberg as Chief of Staff to the Canadian Prime Minister
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Ian Ross Brodie is a Canadian political scientist who was a senior member of the team that created the Conservative Party of Canada and propelled Stephen Harper into the Prime Minister's Office, being his Chief of Staff until July 1, 2008.[1] He attended the 2008 Bilderberg meeting and numerous Halifax International Security Forums.
Education
Brodie attended high school at the University of Toronto Schools. He received a BA in political science from McGill University in Montreal, and an MA and a PhD from the University of Calgary.[2]
Career
In 1997, he became assistant professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario in London; promotion to tenured associate professor came in 2002. At Western, he specialized in Canadian politics, particularly Canadian conservative politics and law and politics.[2]
His book Friends of the Court: The Privileging of Interest Group Litigants in Canada (2002), a revision of his doctoral dissertation, discussed the treatment of interest groups seeking leave to intervene before the Supreme Court of Canada. Friends posited that the court had come to favor a preferred set of interest groups, and explored the legal theory by which this had come about.[2]
In 2003, he took leave from Western to become assistant to the chief of staff in the office of the federal leader of the opposition, first under Harper when he led the Canadian Alliance, then under Grant Hill's interim parliamentary leadership in 2004.[3]
When Harper became leader of the successor Conservative Party of Canada, he appointed Brodie its executive director. In August 2005 he appointed Brodie his chief of staff. When Harper became prime minister after the 2006 election, Brodie became PMO chief of staff. The news that he was leaving the post in 2008 came days before the release of a report on a Clinton/Obama NAFTA leak controversy.[4]
He later became a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary.[5]
His book At the Centre of Government (2018) is based in part on his experiences with Harper.
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2008 | 5 June 2008 | 8 June 2008 | US Virginia Chantilly | The 56th Bilderberg, Chantilly, Virginia, 139 guests |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2009 | 20 November 2009 | 22 November 2009 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2009 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2010 | 20 November 2010 | 22 November 2010 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2010 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2011 | 18 November 2011 | 20 November 2011 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2010 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2012 | 21 November 2012 | 23 November 2012 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada discussing the "New Normal" and Western nations' "special burden". |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2013 | 2013 | 2013 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in 2013 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2014 | 21 November 2014 | 23 November 2014 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2014 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2016 | 18 November 2016 | 21 November 2016 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2018 | 16 November 2008 | 18 November 2008 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2019 | 22 November 2019 | 24 November 2019 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2020 | 20 November 2020 | 22 November 2020 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Annual spooky conference in November, this year held online instead of in Canada due to Covid lockdowns. |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2021 | 19 November 2021 | 21 November 2021 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2021 |
| Halifax International Security Forum/2023 | 17 November 2023 | 19 November 2023 | Canada Halifax Nova Scotia | Spooky conference in Canada in November 2023 |
References
- ↑ https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/ian-r-brodie
- ↑ a b c https://web.archive.org/web/20060530090417/http://publish.uwo.ca/~irbrodie/
- ↑ https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/ian-r-brodie
- ↑ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/harper-aide-accused-of-sparking-nafta-gate-1.719090
- ↑ https://poli.ucalgary.ca/profiles/ian-r-brodi
