Ms. Christine Hart

Christine Hart Accord/Hart & Associates

Cindy Klegg, spokesman for Culture Minister Christine Hart, said the owners were warned in July when they applied that an increase in applications this year had lead to a tightening of the funds.

About CHRISTINE HART, Lawyer & Mediator

Christine Hart is founder and President of Accord/hart & associates inc., one of Canadaâs first conflict management firms - preventing, managing and resolving business and employment disputes.

After early recognition as Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of Ontario, Ms. Hart practiced in Toronto as a commercial and regulatory litigator in the fields of transportation and environmental law.Elected to the Ontario Legislature in 1986, she served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Ministers of Health, Environment and Finance, before being appointed Minister of Culture & Communications.In that portfolio, Ms. Hart was actively involved in telecom and broadcasting policy issues, including the opening up of long distance competition.She was also responsible for bringing people together on issues as diverse as tax policy, new equity financing vehicles and waste exchange initiatives.

In the early 1990âs, Ms. Hart trained at Harvard as a Mediator and became one of Ontarioâs pioneers in Alternative Dispute Resolution.In 1994 she led the first project in Canada testing the viability of court-connected mediation.Its success in âchanging the legal cultureâ ensured that an early opportunity to settle all cases through mediation is now part of Ontarioâs Superior Court process.This has been described by the Court Rules Committee as "the most significant change in trial process in more than a century".

Ms. Hart has always been active in her community and her profession.A Director for the past twenty-five years, she is currently on the board of Roots of Empathy and of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA).Since 2001, she has chaired the Planning and Development Committee, responsible for oversight of the Pearson International Airport Development Project.Her professional practice includes consulting to boards that are in conflict, often over governance issues.

Ms. Hart holds designations in law (Ontario and N.S.), mediation, dispute systems design, facilitation, fact finding, and partnering in complex business arrangements.In 2005 she is anticipating the publication of the 3rd edition of her book, âBypass Court: A Dispute Resolution Manualâ, and her accreditation as a Corporate Director through the University of Torontoâs Rotman School of Business and the Institute of Corporate Directors
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To contact Christine Hart, please call (416) 410-9822 or email chart@aha.on.ca

Christine Hart is the founder and President of Accord/hart & associates inc., one of Canada's first conflict management firms - preventing, managing and resolving business and employment disputes.

Ms. Hart is currently a Director of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority(GTAA) and, since 2001, has been Chair of the Planning and Development Committee of the Board.She has also served on the Audit Committee and takes an active role in governance issues.The GTAA, while not-for-profit, is operated and governed as a public offering corporation because it is financed by publicly issued debt.The Planning and Development Committee oversees and is responsible for the schedule and the budget of the multi-billion dollar development project at Pearson International Airport, one of the largest and most complex construction projects in North America.

Over the past 25 years Ms. Hart has been a member of a number of boards.She is a former governor and Executive Committee member of Sheridan College, a community college with an international reputation for excellence in animation, design and the new media.She has also served on the boards of the Ontario Bar Association (Executive Committee), Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation, the Canadian Stage Company, and the CNIB National Library.In 2004, Ms. Hart was appointed a Director of Roots of Empathy, a school-based program to reduce bullying and develop caring, competent parents of tomorrow.

Because of her interest in governance issues and her enjoyment of Board work, Ms. Hart is enrolled in the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management Director's Education Program, and hopes to be accredited as a Corporate Director by Spring, 2005.

Ms Christine Hart - Finance Director

- Christine Hart, LL.B., Accord Hart & Associates, Toronto

Christine Hart, ICD.D, a lawyer who is Founder and President of Accord/hart & Associates, has received two recent appointments in the not-for-profit sector as a member of the Ontario Consent and Capacity Board and as Vice Chair of Governors of Kingsway College School, Toronto.

Christine E. Hart President, Conflict Management Firm Accord/Hart & Associates Inc. Office: 400 - 327 Lake PromenadeToronto, ON M8W 1A6 Phone: 416-410-9822 Fax: 416-253-7092 E-mail: chart@aha.on.ca