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Graham W.S. Scott, CM, QC
Counsel
Toronto
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Tel :
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416.865.7247
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Fax :
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416.865.7939
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Professional Experience
Graham Scott is Counsel and a former Managing Partner of McMillan. Graham's practice is focused on public policy and government issues with a particular emphasis on health care issues. He has extensive experience in governance in the voluntary sector and in the assessment of boards and management teams in both the voluntary and private sectors.
Following two years of law practice in Toronto, Graham served as executive assistant to the Leader of the Opposition for Canada from 1970 to 1976. In 1976 he joined the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney-General and in 1977 he became Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Courts Administration and Inspector of Legal Offices. In 1978 he became Associate Secretary of the Cabinet and in 1979 Deputy Minister of Environment where he served until late 1981 when he became Deputy Minister of Health. He joined McMillan in January 1984 and was managing partner between 2000 and 2006.
From 1988 to 1992 the Ontario Ministry of Health and the Ontario Medical Association jointly retained Graham as Chair of the Task Force on the Use and Provision of Medical Services. In 1993, he served as Chair of the Health Service Export Advisory Committee, which led to the creation of Interhealth Canada Limited. In 1994 he was an independent fact finder for the Ministry of Health, the Ontario Medical Association and the Ontario Hospital Association and presented a report on physician coverage for small/rural hospital emergency departments. He was appointed Chair of the Transition Team for Cancer Care Ontario. He has also served as the independent Chair or Co-Chair of several different hospital amalgamation processes, all of which involved extensive facilitation, mediation and negotiation.
In 1993 Graham was appointed Co-Chair of the Prime Ministers Advisory Committee on Government Restructuring. He subsequently became a member of the successor group, the Advisory Committee on the Public Service. Graham serves as Chair of the Board of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and as Vice chair of the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Graham is a Director of Sanofi Pasteur Limited; the Atlantic Salmon Federation; AllerGen NCE Inc., and a Trustee of the Retirement Residents Real Estate Investment Trust. Graham is a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Rotman Research Institute of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and a member the Salvation Army Advisory Board. Graham also is a Trustee of the Forum for Young Canadians. He is a former Chairman of Organ Donation Ontario and a former Chairman of the Public Policy Forum, a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting greater collaboration between the public and private sectors and a past President and Director of the Friends of H.M.C.S. Haida.
publications and presentations
Presentations
- April 2006 "Narrowing the Gap Between Not-For-Profit And Public Company Boards"with Maureen Quigley, Institute of Corporate Directors
- April 2006"Making a Difference to Canadian's Health: CIHI's Health Data and Information"CCHSE Conference
- January 2006"Bill 36: Local Health Systems Integration Act"OHA: Ontario Governments Legislative Agenda
- January 2006"For Profit Health Care: What is the Big Deal" University of Toronto – Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
- October 2005"Chaoulli and the Restructuring of Health Care" Osgoode Hall Professional Development Program
- May 2005"Change Management and Medical Leadership"OHA Conference on Wait Times
- April 2005"Setting Priorities in Health Care Spending: Identifying the Indicators for Effective Fiscal Management"Health Policy Summit
- April 2004 "Report on Hospital Governances and Accountability in Ontario"with Maureen Quigley, commissioned by the OHA
- November 25, 2003"The Case for New Healthcare Infrastructure in Canada"The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships
- The 11th Annual Conference on Public Private Partnerships "The Legal Duties and Potential Liabilities of Directors of Non-Profit Organizations"Non-Profit Governance Conference (Toronto)Publications
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- corporate
- health
- public policy and government relations
Called to the Ontario bar
- 1968
University of Western Ontario, LLB
- 1966
University of Western Ontario, BA
- 1965
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