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Financial Post comment by Kyle Hanniman (assistant professor of political studies at Queen’s University) and Trevor Tombe (associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary and co-director of Finances of the Nation).
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Wednesday May 19, 2021Location
Zoom
The Honourable Jody Wilson-Raybould, P.C., Q.C., M.P. (Puglaas) – Canada's first Indigenous Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and Canada's first elected female Independent Member of Parliament has been a leader among Indigenous peoples advocating for the proper recognition and implementation of Indigenous rights. Despite political rhetoric that promises change, and some incremental progress, the fact remains that this transformative change is yet to happen. Why do Governments struggle to effect true reconciliation? Why has this urgently needed change been so slow in coming? What should governments, Indigenous peoples, and the public be doing today to drive forward the real change that is needed? What role can the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples play in this work? Hear her answer these questions, and others, while sharing insights from her unique experience as an Indigenous and Canadian politician and leader.
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IIGR Director Christian Leuprecht - in the Hill Times
Governments exhibit a common pattern when confronted with harmful institutional culture: they appoint a new leader and commission an outside study. Yet this still falls short on accountability, writes IIGR Director Christian Leuprecht in the Hill Times.
IIGR Director Christian Leuprecht discusses this on 'The Agenda with Steve Paikin'
Earlier this month the Colonial Pipeline, which transports nearly half of the U.S. east coast's fuel supplies, was hacked by a ransomware gang. That shut down its operations on the 5,500 mile pipeline causing gas prices to soar. Could a similar attack happen in Canada? How vulnerable is the country's critical infrastructure to attack? And is the Canadian government taking the escalating cyber threat seriously enough? The Agenda examines cyber threat in Canada.
Former Director
B.Sc. (McGill), M.A. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (LSE)
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
University of Victoria
Harvey Lazar served as director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations from January 1997 to June 2005. Previously, he had a long career in the Canadian Public Service, including assignments as Deputy Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada (1986-1992); and Senior Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy, Human Resources Development Canada (1992-1995). Dr. Lazar contributed to a number of major research reports during his years in Public Service, on such diverse topics as retirement income policy, social policy, labour market development, financial institutions and foreign investment policy. He is currently the Senior Research Associate, Centre for Global Studies and Adjunct Professor for the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria.
His current work focuses on fiscal federalism, health policy reform and federalism and public health and federalism.
Former Director
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
Mr. Juneau was the director of the IIGR from March 2010 to December 2013. Prior to that, he had a thirty-five year career in the Canadian public service during which he held several senior policy positions related to intergovernmental relations, social policy (labour market, immigration, health) and government decision-making. His first deputy-level position was deputy secretary to the Cabinet for operations. He then served as the first deputy minister of Infrastructure and Communities from 2002 to 2006. Before retiring from the public service in 2009, Mr. Juneau served as the director for Canada and Morocco on the resident board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, U.K. for three years. Since then he has lectured in Canada and abroad on federalism and on infrastructure. He was president of the national board of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada in 2014-2015. He now sits on the board of directors of the Windsor Detroit Bridge Authority.
Former Director
B.A. (Saskatchewan), Ph.D. (Princeton), OC, FRSC, LLD, Ph.D.
Economics and Policy Studies
Thomas J. Courchene was born in Wakaw, Saskatchewan, and was educated at the University of Saskatchewan (Honours BA, 1962) and Princeton University (Ph.D., 1967), with a post-doctoral year at the University of Chicago (1968-9). From 1965 to 1988 he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Courchene spent the fall term of 1986 as a visiting Professor at Ecole nationale d'administration publique (Montreal). For the academic year 1987/88, he occupied the John P. Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies at York University. In 1988, he accepted the Directorship of Queen's new School of Policy Studies (1988-92). From 1992 until his retirement in 2012 Courchene held the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professorship in Economics and Financial Policy at Queen's, where he was a member of the Department of Economics, the School of Policy Studies and the Faculty of Law. He remains the Senior Scholar at the Institute for Research on Public Policy in Montreal, a position he has held since 1999. He served as Director of Queen's John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy from 1993-99 and from 2001-02 and as Director of Queen's Institute of Intergovernmental Relations from July 2006 to February 2010.
Courchene is the author or editor of some 60 books and has published some 300 academic papers on a wide range of Canadian public policy issues. Among the authored books are: a four volume series on Canadian monetary policy for the C.D. Howe Institute; In Praise of Renewed Federalism (C.D. Howe); Social Policy in the 1990s: Agenda for Reform (C.D. Howe); Equalization Payments: Past, Present and Future (Ontario Economic Council); Economic Management and the Division of Powers (Macdonald Royal Commission); and A First Nations Province (Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, Queen's). A collection of his earlier articles appears in Rearrangements: The Courchene Papers (Oakville, Mosaic Press). His 1994 book, Social Canada in the Millennium was awarded the Doug Purvis Prize for the best Canadian economic policy contribution in 1994 and his book, From Heartland to North American Region State: The Social, Fiscal and Federal Evolution of Ontario (1998, with Colin Telmer) won the inaugural Donner Prize for the best book on Canadian Public Policy. His latest book -- A State of Minds: Toward a Human Capital Future for Canadians -- was published in 2001 by the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal). Among his more recent essays are Rekindling the American Dream: A Northern Perspective (2011, the inaugural IRPP Policy Horizons Essay) and Policy Signposts in Postwar Canada: Reflections of a Market Populist (2012, marking the occasion of IRPP's 40th anniversary).
Dr. Courchene was Chair of the Ontario Economic Council from 1982 to 1985, has been a Senior Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute (1980-99), is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (elected 1981) and is a Past President (1991/92) of the Canadian Economics Association and of the North American Economics and Finance Association (2000-01). He has received Honorary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Western Ontario (1997), the University of Saskatchewan (1999), and the University of Regina (2007). On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the University of Saskatchewan (2007) Courchene was selected as one of the 100 Alumni of Influence, and in 2009 was also included among the 100 Alumni of Influence as part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Sciences. He is a recipient of the Molson Prize for lifetime achievement in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1999). In April of 1999, Thomas Courchene was invested as an Officer in the Order of Canada.
Tom and Margie Courchene live along the St Lawrence River in Kingston, Ontario.
Former Director
Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
Ryerson University
Former Director
Political Science
St. Francis Xavier University
Douglas M. Brown is an Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is currently also the program coordinator of the Public Policy and Governance program at StFXU, associated with the Mulroney Institute of Government.
He has been a Fellow of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations since 1997. From 1990 to 1993 he was the Executive Director of the Institute. From 1980-88, he held various positions in the Intergovernmental Affairs Secretariat of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Dr. Brown is the author and editor of over 30 publications related to Canadian federalism, intergovernmental relations, and regional issues. Many of these are available from the Institute's publications list. His latest project is completing the second edition of Contested Federalism: Certainty and Ambiguity in the Canadian Federation, co-authored with Herman Bakvis and Gerald Baier.
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