Young leaders tour Northern Ontario: Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference expands horizons.

• Author: Migneault, Jonathan
• Position: NEWS - Conference news

Sixteen young leaders from across Canada got a good taste of Northern Ontario thanks to the 2015 Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference.

Each year, around 230 of Canada's brightest up-and-coming leaders in business, labour, government and the non-profit sectors tour different parts of the country with a group of their peers, where their prejudices are challenged, and they are given a chance to examine a variety of issues facing the country.

The Northern Ontario group followed a hectic nine-day itinerary that started in Thunder Bay and ended in North Bay with numerous stops in between.

"They certainly got a really good taste of what Northern Ontario is about," said Andrew Dale, chair of the 2015 Northern Ontario Tour, and a conference alumnus.

"You take emerging leaders (...) and you offer them a very unique experience with which to view situations in a very condensed time frame," Dale said.

The conference's goal, he said, is to give participants a new perspective on a part of Canada they may not be familiar with, and then meet with their peers to consider new approaches to different situations.

The nine-day journey started on May 25...