Ontario Place

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Board of Directors

Board of Directors

Ontario Place Corporation is a provincial government agency reporting to the Minister of Tourism and Culture.

The members of the corporation form and are its board of directors. The corporation consists of not fewer than seven and not more than 13 members appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council of whom one is a director of the Canadian National Exhibition Association. The Lieutenant Governor in Council designates one of the members to be chair and may designate one of the members to be vice-chair of the board. There are regular quarterly Board meetings.


Board Members, as of January 2011, are:

Joseph (Joe) Halstead,
Chair, Ontario Place Board

David Angus,
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Member, Strategic Planning Committee

Sonny Cho,
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Member, Marketing Committee, and Member, Audit Committee

Connie Dejak,
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Member, Strategic Planning Committee

Linda Franklin
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Chair, Strategic Planning Committee

Basat Khalifa
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Member, Marketing Committee

Penny Lipsett
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Chair, Marketing Committee, and Member, Audit Committee

Joanne Rider
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Member, Marketing Committee

Winston Young
Member, Ontario Place Board, and Chair, Audit Committee