WORLD FEDERALIST MOVEMENT - CANADA
207 – 145 Spruce St., Ottawa, ON K1R 6P1
Tel: (613) 232-0647 • Email: wfcnat@web.ca
Web site: http://www.worldfederalistscanada.org

Executive Committee:
President - Warren Allmand O.C., P.C., Q.C.
Chair of Council - Robin Collins
Executive Committee Chair - Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton
National Treasurer - Dieter Heinrich
National Secretary - Janina Komaroff
Executive Director - Fergus Watt
Simon Rosenblum
John Trent
Dimitri Alpatoff

Members of Council:
President - Warren Allmand O.C., P.C., Q.C.
Past-President - Hon. Flora MacDonald, O.C., P.C.
Executive Director - Fergus Watt
Leonard Angel (Vancouver)
Dimitri Alpatof (Victoria)
Peter Bailey
Syd Baumel
Robin Collins
Caspar Davis
Graham Day
Larry Gordon
Carol Greene
Karl Grupe (Manitoba)
Karen Hamilton
Bill Hartzog (Montreal)
Dieter Heinrich
Don Herres
Achille Joyal
Larry Kazdan
Janina Komaroff
Cameron Laing
Peter Langille
Peggy Mason
Tudy McLaine (National Capital Region)
Désirée McGraw
John Packer
Simon Rosenblum
Muriel Smith
John Trent
David Thomson

WFM - Canada is a member organization
of the international World Federalist Movement

WFM Officers:
President - The Very Rev. Dr. Lois M. Wilson
Past-President - (the late) Sir Peter Ustinov
Council Chair - James Christie
Executive Committee Chair - Keith Best
Executive Director - Bill Pace

HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF WFM-C

In 1951, five independent world federalist groups in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and Saskatoon came together to form the World Federalists of Canada. Canadian world federalist groups had sprung up after the Second World War, developing at about the same time as world federalist groups in other countries. The Second World War left Europe devastated, the horror of the Holocaust was revealed, and atomic war, first used on the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, threatened all of humanity. The world federalists understood the structural constraints of the United Nations Organization and the urgent need to develop democratic world institutions that could make and enforce world law.

In spite of the frustrations of the Cold War, the World Federalists of Canada (now, World Federalist Movement - Canada) continued to champion step-by-step improvements in the way human society governs itself on a global scale.

Now, more than a decade after the end of the Cold War, the value in democratic global governance has never been clearer. Our personal lives have become integrated with the life of an emerging world community, and global trends, conditions and patterns tie us to each other and the Earth. Individual citizens have a stake in the outcome of world affairs and ought to have democratic rights over decisions affecting the world community.