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We also say that we exist "to promote and deepen understanding through the exchange of a wide range of political, economic, social, religious, cultural and philosophical ideas concerning the principles and traditions of a free and ordered society." To that end we organise events, chiefly our Annual Conference, to bring togther people who share an interest in these ideas.

 

Finally, at the first ever Civitas Regional Dinner held in Halifax on 27 October 2005, the society’s president, Brian Lee Crowley, described the Society's raison d'être this way:

For those of you who are not yet familiar with Civitas, it grows out of Canadians’ desire to take up one of the great challenges of Western civilization: how to reconcile our desire for individual freedom with the need for social order. Every society and age throws up new challenges requiring us to balance these precious values. As a "society where ideas meet," Civitas is an organization dedicated to promoting and nurturing that conversation in Canada today. We bring together people with an interest in conservative, classical liberal and libertarian ideas and allow them to engage with some of the world’s finest minds who are grappling with these questions.

Civitas welcomes as members Canadians and others who share these goals.