The Principals L. Victor Pathe Vic Pathe has over thirty years experience in labour-management relations and collective bargaining, highlighted by his service as Deputy Minister, Labour Management Services in the Government of Ontario. Prior to this, as assistant deputy minister, he supervised a redesign of the Ministry’s mediation and arbitration programs that incorporated preventive mediation and grievance mediation techniques. His industry-specific efforts resulted in the formation of joint labour-management committees in the retail food, pulp and paper, major appliance and hospital industries. He is a highly respected neutral party in labour relations, having mediated disputes in many industries including construction, health care, public transit, basic steel, mining, brewing and public utilities, as well as in the public sector. He is also active as an arbitrator in rights and interest disputes. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Pathe was selected as Facilitator/Mediator/Arbitrator in community wide negotiations between hospitals and unions in hospital restructuring. These negotiations resulted in human resources plans to deal with labour relations issues as health care programs were consolidated or transferred, due to hospital restructuring in approximately sixteen Ontario communities from Windsor to Ottawa. Prior to the formation of Pathe Gardner & Associates Inc in 1999, Mr. Pathe was in 1994-95 an associate of Restructuring Associates Inc., based in Washington, DC and is the principal of L.Victor Pathe & Associates Inc. Mr. Pathe has represented Canada and Ontario at meetings of the International Labour Organization, where he was afforded an early opportunity to learn about leading edge labour relations and organizational change efforts through activities such as his membership in 1979 on a tripartite study tour of Western Europe. Paul G. Gardner Paul Gardner is the former Director of the Office of Mediation for the Ontario Ministry of Labour. Prior to leaving the Ministry, in 1998, he was Director of Labour Management Services, responsible for the Ministry's mediation, arbitration and collective agreement information services. As a labour relations professional with over 30 years experience, Mr. Gardner has mediated hundreds of disputes in both the private and public sectors, including the transportation, steel, mining, manufacturing, construction, education, health care and municipal government sectors. In addition to his experience as a neutral in collective agreement disputes, he was instrumental in the design, development and implementation of the Ministry's highly successful Preventive Mediation Program and has led numerous programs aimed at improving employer-employee relationships. In addition to his involvement with Pathe Gardner & Associates, Mr. Gardner is Chair of the Ontario Police Arbitration Commission, Chair of the Electrical Trade Joint Board and has chaired Boards of Conciliation and Arbitration.