Peter Warrian

Peter Warrian began a life of activism in the early 1960s with the Student Chapter of the Catholic Worker movement in Toronto. He later became active in the US civil rights movement while studying at a seminary in Baltimore. In 1965, Peter joined he student protest movement at the University of Waterloo, including the draft dodger programme and the Student Union for Peace Action. In 1968-69 he was national President of the Canadian Union of Students during the peak of the campus protests against the war. After university, he was Research Director of the United Steelworkers, active in union negotiations, economic policy advocacy and environmental improvement. He was a member of the Economic Policy Committee of the Canadian Labour Congress and Chair of the Resolutions Committee of the Federal NDP and, later, Chief Economist of the Bob Rae NDP government of Ontario. More recently, Peter has worked with Catholic Social Justice and union activists on a Vatican sponsored project, The Future of Work After Ladauto Si.