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2000 - 2001 Public Policy Fellow: Stuart J. Whitley
The Chumir Foundation For Ethics in Leadership takes pleasure in announcing the appointment of Stuart J. Whitley, QC, as its first Public Policy Fellow. The three-month Public Policy Fellowship position, for which Stuart successfully competed, will examine the Responsibility, Accountability and the Duty to Resign in Public Service.
Mr. Whitley is a writer, lawyer and consultant. Most recently (July 2000) he was the Deputy Minister of Justice for the Yukon Territory. He is a graduate of the University of Manitoba [B.A. (with Distinction) 1970]; University of Manitoba (L.L.B. 1973) and Dalhousie (L.L.M. 1983). He is a member of the Manitoba and Yukon Bars. He has been a Crown attorney from 1973 to 1984, conducting cases at all levels of Court including the Supreme Court of Canada. In 1985, he was appointed Director of Constitutional Law for Manitoba; in 1987 he was made Director of Public Prosecutions.
In 1989 Mr. Whitley became Assistant Deputy Attorney General in Manitoba. In 1995, he was appointed by the Yukon Government as Deputy Minister. During this time he taught at Red River Community College and the Faculties of Law and Education at the University of Manitoba. Currently he teaches criminology courses at Yukon College. Mr. Whitley expects his work on responsibility and accountability to result in several newspaper and journal articles.
You can download, in .pdf format, Mr Whitley's examination of the subject of his fellowship here:
Responsibility, Accountability and the Duty to Resign in Public Service (full report)
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