Lubomyr Luciuk Appointed to Parole Board of Canada

Kingston, Ont., April 2, 2013 – Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk has been appointed as a part-time Member of the Parole Board of Canada. A professor in the Department of Politics and Economics at the Royal Military College of Canada, in Kingston, Ont., he is also a Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr. Luciuk has written and edited numerous books, papers, and opinion-editorials on a wide range of topics, notably in the fields of political geography, refugee studies, Ukraine, and Canadian ethnic & immigration history. Currently, he is co-editing a book on modern European famines with Dr. Declan Curran (University of Dublin) and Dr. Andrew Newby (University of Helsinki) scheduled for publication by Routledge.

Announcing five new appointments and one reappointment to the Parole Board, the Honourable Vic Toews, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety, said: “As an independent administrative tribunal, the Parole Board of Canada makes conditional release, record suspension and clemency decisions that contribute to the protection of society.”

A Governor in Council (GIC) appointment is made by the Governor General on the advice of the Queen’s Privy Council of Canada (i.e. the Cabinet) through an Order in Council. Prof. Luciuk’s first GIC appointment was in 1996-1998, when he was a Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.

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Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk