Michael Church

Member of Justice Normand Glaude’s Advisory Panel at the Cornwall Public Inquiry.  

Members of the Cornwall Public Inquiry Advisory Panel are supposed to be "free from any conflict of interest."  However, Justice Normand Glaude granted standing at the inquiry to Rick Goodwin as head of the Men's Project and then in July 2006 named Michael Church and Janet Handy as members of his Advisory Panel.  The Men's Project has already received additional provincial funding for the inquiry and it along with the Ontario Association of Male Survivor Services  stand to gain financially through a hefty influx of provincial funding as a result of the inquiry. (Handy and Church are both members of the OAMSS Provincial Advisory Committee) 

Info from the Cornwall Public Inquiry website: 

MICHAEL CHURCH, FREELTON. Mike is an active volunteer on behalf of men who have suffered sexual abuse. His work has included providing peer support as a trained mentor and speaking about the impact of sexual abuse to meetings of police forces, hospital staff, schools and service clubs. He has been a keynote speaker or workshop participant at Ontario conferences of male survivors and has also advocated for change on behalf ofthose who have experienced childhood or adolescent sexual abuse. He has found that raising awareness has aided professionals in recognizing symptoms of childhood abuse and supported men who have experienced abuse but thought they were alone. Mike retired in December 2005, after over forty years of progressively responsible working experience, both at a major Canadian bank and in the Ontario Government. Mike is proud to indicate that he recently celebrated his 39th wedding anniversary.

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