{"id":14749,"date":"2025-08-29T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondationtrudeau.solutionsnuagiques.com\/?page_id=14749"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:34:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T16:34:14","slug":"thomas-s-axworthy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fondationtrudeau.solutionsnuagiques.com\/en\/foundation-members\/thomas-s-axworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas S. 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Axworthy<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbf21e6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cbf21e6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Thomas S. Axworthy has had a distinguished career in government, academia, and philanthropy. He served as the Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and he was a key strategist on repatriation of the Constitution and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.<\/p><p>In 1984, Dr. Axworthy went to Harvard University, teaching at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2003, he left Harvard and was appointed Chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy, School of Policy Studies, Queen\u2019s University. 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