(ATR) New members have been named by the federal government for the board of directors for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has put his stamp on the VANOC board of directors, naming three Conservative Party allies.
Canaccord Capital Corp. chairman and chief executive Peter Brown heads the list. Brown was vice-chairman of Expo 86 and is a friend of B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell.
London, Ontario's Carol Stephenson, dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario, and Montreal lawyer Jacques Gauthier, senior vice-president and chief operating officer of Kruger Inc., are the other new appointees.
They replace the three directors allied with the Liberal Party appointed by former Prime Minister Jean Chretien: Tony Tennessy, Peter Dhillon and Chretien's daughter France Chretien Desmarais.
The VANOC board is composed of 20 members, nominated by the Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, the Resort Municipality of Whistler, the Canadian Olympic Committee, the Canadian Paralympic Committee and local First Nations.
Jack Poole, chairman of the Vancouver 2010 bid committee, is chair of the VANOC board.
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