Margaret Purdy is one of the four eminent Canadians named today by Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan to the national Advisory Panel on Canada’s defence policy review. The ministerial advisory panel will help craft a comprehensive plan for the military’s size and scope in the future.
Learn more in the CBC article.
Margaret is former associate deputy minister of national defence and Past Visiting Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, UBC. In 2010, Margaret led a research project at the Liu Institute examining the security and public safety implications for Canada of global climate change.
Learn more about her work by reading The Climate Change-Security Nexus Workshop Report and her chapter, Does Climate Change Qualify as a National Security Issue? A Canadian Perspective, in the volume “Climate change and security: planning for the future.”
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