As President of the Canadian Council for the Americas (CCA), I am pleased to invite you to attend our Annual Awards Dinner on September 20, 2012 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto. This year we will be presenting our Statesman of the Year Award to His Excellency, Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna, President of the Dominican Republic. We are also proud to present our Lifetime Business Achievement Award to Mr. Peter Godsoe, former President, Chairman and CEO of the Bank of Nova Scotia and our Lifetime Public Service Achievement Award to Professor Stephen Randall, Director of the Latin American Research Centre at the University of Calgary.