J. Anthony Stikeman, Chairman
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With 35 years of business and consulting experience, Tony Stikeman is one of Ottawa's most seasoned government relations practitioners. He provides government relations consulting to a broad range of Canadian and international companies in many different sectors of the economy.

Tony began his career in 1970 as Special Assistant to the Hon. C.M. (Bud) Drury, President of the Treasury Board, where he spent three years cutting his teeth on issues at the heart of government policy development. In 1973, Tony went to work in the energy sector, initially at Canadian Arctic Gas, a Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline consortium, and later for Shell Canada Limited in government affairs, and strategic planning and economics in Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa.

In 1988, Tony developed his consulting career with two Ottawa-based government relations firms, before going on to launch TACTIX in January 1996, where his business and public policy background provide a unique advantage to clients in energy and natural resources, environment, tax, transportation and telecommunications.

Tony is a bilingual native of Montréal and holds a B.A. from McGill University and a Diplôme (Relations Internationales) from l'Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris. He has lectured in oil and gas economics at Mount Royal College in Calgary and in government relations at the University of Ottawa. Tony is a former President of the Government Relations Institute of Canada and is active in community affairs.