Testimonial Dinner Award | National
Each year at Public Policy Forum’s Testimonial Dinner Honour Roll in Toronto, more than 1,200 people from all sectors of Canadian society gather to pay tribute to distinguished leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the quality of public policy and good governance. More than 120 outstanding Canadian men and women have been honoured since 1988.
Next event
2026 Testimonial Dinner Honour Roll
Details coming soon
Testimonial Dinner Award | National
2026 Honourees
To be announced
Testimonial Dinner Award | National
Past Honourees
| 2025 | |
| Anil Arora | Elizabeth Dowdeswell |
| Chief Crystal Smith | Marc-André Blanchard |
| 2024 | |
| Jayna Hefford | JP Gladu |
| Janice Charette | Marc Garneau |
| Murad Al-Katib | |
| 2023 | |
| Harold Calla | Lisa Raitt |
| John Risley | Janice Stein |
| Laurent Duvernay-Tardif | |
| 2022 | |
| Hon. John Manley | Chief Terrance Paul |
| Dr. Clarissa Desjardins | Deepa Mehta |
| 2020 | |
| Elyse Allan | Hon. Anne McLellan |
| Sen. Murray Sinclair | Sen. Peter Harder |
| 2019 | |
| Rona Ambrose | George Cope |
| Dr. Alan Bernstein | Pierre-Marc Johnson |
| Farah Mohamed | |
| 2018 | |
| Mark Carney | The Right Hon. Beverley McLachlin |
| Michael Donovan | Mary Walsh |
| Richard Dicerni | |
| 2017 | |
| Louise Arbour | Yaprak Baltacioglu |
| Dominic Barton | Johann Koss |
| Margaret MacMillan | Naheed Nenshi |
| 2016 | |
| Françoise Bertrand | Jack Mintz |
| Robert Prichard | Wayne Wouters |
| 2015 | |
| Ed Clark | Peter Herrndorf |
| Roberta Jamieson | Michael Sabia |
| 2014 | |
| Annette Verschuren | Mary Simon |
| Sheila Fraser | Heather Munroe-Blum |
| 2013 | |
| Kevin Lynch | Alex Himelfarb |
| Mel Cappe | Jocelyne Bourgon |
| Paul Tellier | |
| 2012 | |
| The Right Hon. Kim Campbell | The Right Hon Jean Chrétien |
| The Right Hon. Joseph Clark | The Right Hon. Paul Martin |
| The Right Hon. Brian Mulroney | The Right Hon. John Turner |
| 2011 | |
| William G. Davis | Gordon Nixon |
| Monique Leroux | Jim Stanford |
| 2010 | |
| Tony Dean | Phil Fontaine |
| Preston Manning | Carole Taylor |
| 2009 | |
| Jim Balsillie | Mike Lazaridis |
| Jacques Ménard | Georgina Steinsky-Schwartz |
| 2008 | |
| David Dodge | Gerri Sinclair |
| Sheila Watt-Cloutier | |
| 2007: 20th Anniversary (no awards given) | |
| 2006 | |
| George Erasmus | Louise Frechette |
| Hon. Bob Rae | |
| 2005 | |
| Monique Bégin | Bob White |
| Michael Wilson | |
| 2004 | |
| Rita Burak | Denis Desautels |
| Roy Romanow | Allan Shaw |
| 2003 | |
| Guy Colombe | Purdy Crawford |
| Henry Friesen | Chaviva Hosek |
| Don Mazankowski | |
| 2002 | |
| Nellie Cournoyea | Pierre Lortie |
| Monica Patten | Milton Wong |
| 2001 | |
| Al Hatton | Hon. Peter Lougheed |
| Eric Newell | Manon Vennat |
| 2000 | |
| Allan Blakeney | Raymond Garneau |
| Margaret Norrie McCain | Lynton "Red" Wilson |
| 1999 | |
| Jean Bernard | Thomas Edward Kierans |
| Donald Savoie | Thomas Shoyama |
| 1998 | |
| Jim Gray | Gaetan Lussier |
| Jean Pigott | Hon. Gordon Robertson |
| 1997 | |
| Sheldon Ehrenworth | |
| 1996 | |
| A.W. (Al) Johnson | Guylaine Saucier |
| James D. Fleck | |
| 1995 | |
| Jean-Claude Delorme | Claire Morris |
| Bill Blundell | Leo Gérard |
| 1994 | |
| Allan Taylor | Louise Roy |
| Reg Basken | Bruce Rawson |
| 1993 | |
| Bertin Nadeau | Mickey Cohen |
| Judith Maxwell | James McCambly |
| 1992 | |
| Guy Saint-Pierre | Chris Evans |
| Huguette Labelle | Arden Haynes |
| 1991 | |
| Trevor Eyton | Claude Castonguay |
| Sylvia Ostry | Jack Munro |
| 1990 | |
| Gordon Osbaldeston | Edward Stewart |
| Gérard Docquier | Michel Bélanger |
| 1989 | |
| Arthur Kroeger | Robert Carman |
| David Golden | Jean de Grandpré |
| 1988 | |
| Allen Lambert | Robert Bryce |
| Ted Newall | Paul Tellier |
Testimonial Dinner Award | National
Past events
2025 Testimonial Dinner & Awards
2024 Testimonial Dinner & Awards
2023 Testimonial Dinner & Awards
2022 Testimonial Dinner & Awards
Virtual 2020 Testimonial Awards – Honour Roll
2019 Testimonial Dinner & Awards
2018 Testimonial Dinner & Awards
2017 Testimonial Dinner & Awards