After months of researching, debating and selecting, the results are in.  One of the most important phases of The Canada Expedition, our Guides have come up with a small hand-selected cache of nominees whom we will interview and challenge regarding sustainability on the large-scale.

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Most of our nominees are already laurel-wearing heroes in their own right, but we’ve got quite the interesting mixture. Putting the tough questions to both champions and dissenters, we are here to examine some of the biggest challenges facing sustainability in our world.

Most of our candidates you will have heard of once or twice before, but probably more. But we are here to talk about them again and hopefully, in conversation, get a little closer to solving some of the riddles of sustainability.

So, who are the much-touted nominees?

Each selected group is separated according to the four pillars of human sustainability upon which The Canada Expedition is housed.

In the field of Stabilize Climate Change, we have:

Maude Barlow

Jim Prentis

Mike Mack

Dr. Greg Stone

For the second pillar, Develop an Eco-Economy, we have:

Lester R. Brown

James Gustav Speth

George Monbiot

William Rees

Third, in the Prevent and Resolve Political Violence category:

Senator Romeo Dallaire

Justice Murray Sinclair

Chief Justice Louise Arbour

Milt Lauenstein

And lastly, to the task of Liberate Human Potential, we have:

Guy Dauncey

Elder Betty McKenna

John Ralston Saul

Kevin Vallely

Richard Seireeni

Not only have our Expedition Guides put these names forward as potential interview candidates, but they have also compiled lists of background information and the pertinent issues at hand.  Our guides have armed us with incisive questions, aimed at tackling everything from water scarcity through to the nature of violent conflict and back around to the mass transformation of cultural values.

We’ve drawn for ourselves a complex map of sustainability, each candidate representing a point along our journey.  We expect our map to grow, our scope to evolve, encompassing more places of examination, inquisition, discovery.  This is what The Canada Expedition is all about.

We hope you will follow along, checking in regularly for updates and fresh interview posts.