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The Liberty Summer Seminar, held this year on the July 29, 30 weekend in Orono, Ontario, seeks to bring together Canada’s best pro-liberty speakers with a bright and energetic audience. Hosted on a beautiful 40-acre property with a swimming pond, horseshoes, walking trails, and acres of forest, the Liberty Summer Seminar is now in its sixth year.

That’s right: we’re six years old this year!

And what better way to celebrate our sixth year than with an icon in the movement for liberty in Canada? This year’s keynote speaker will be none other than Dr. Michael Walker.

From its inception in 1974, until September 2005, Dr. Walker was the Executive Director of the Fraser Institute, Canada’s most prominent think tank. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Western Ontario and Carleton, and was employed at the Bank of Canada and the Federal Department of Finance. He holds a PhD from the University of Western Ontario, and received his BA from St. Francis Xavier University.

Dr. Walker has authored or edited 45 books on economic topics, and his academic articles have appeared in professional journals like the Canadian Journal of Economics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Canadian Tax Journal, Health Management Quarterly and Health Affairs. He has received numerous awards and honours, including the 1992 Colin M. Brown Freedom Medal from the National Citizens Coalition, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario in 2003, and the 2004 Thomas Jefferson Award from the Association of Private Enterprise Education.

Dr. Walker is currently a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute and is President of the Fraser Institute Foundation. Amongst the firms and enterprises he directs is the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation. And he can add "Speaker: 2006 Liberty Summer Seminar" to this impressive list!

We’ve announced Danielle Smith, John Carpay, and Michael Walker as speakers. That’s just the tip of the iceberg! In the next few weeks, we will roll out the entire line-up, including our musical act.

If you haven’t registered for the Seminar yet, do so now. If you can help us put scholarship money together for students, let us know. Meanwhile, if you have questions, suggestions, or comments, send us an email.

And if you have a blog, please consider helping us advertise by posting a button for the Seminar. People like Janet who blogs at Liberty is Good, Paul who runs Blue Blogging Soapbox, Liam with the Responsible Government League, Ian who likes to ruminate by the lake, and Peter, a fellow philosopher who runs afoul of Dinner Table Donts, have posted about this year’s Seminar (thanks to all of you!) Consider doing the same, and letting us know so we can post it in the next LSS News.

Cheers,

Liberty Summer Seminar Committee.