Friday, March 20, 2009 - This evening, close to 100 residents from the Waterloo Region attended the Galt Country Club to listen to newly appointed Senator Michael (Mike) Duffy as a keynote speaker.

Senator Duffy is one of Canada’s most well known and respected news personalities. He joined CBC Radio News in 1974, switched to CBC TV’s “The National” in 1978, and joined CTV in 1988. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame. Mr. Duffy is involved in a number of charitable activities both in Ottawa and in his home province, including the UPEI Building fund, and the current Holland College Foundation Fundraising campaign. He has been a visiting fellow at Duke University; and has been twice nominated for the “Best in the Business” award by the Washington Journalism Review. Mr. Duffy has received many other awards and citations, and honourary degrees from the University of PEI; from Niagara University in Niagara Falls, NY; and from Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford.

Currently, Senator Duffy is a member of the Agriculture & Forestry Senate Committee and the Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament Senate Committee.

Introduced by the Member of Parliament for Cambridge/North Dumfries & Minister of State (Science and Technology), the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Senator Duffy spoke on his experience in the media and Canadian politics, as well as the state of the economy.