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View Past “COVID and Beyond” Webinars

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View Past “COVID and Beyond” Webinars

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Click here to visit our YouTube channel and click below to view past webinars on “COVID and Beyond”, including discussions regarding:

The Manufacturing Sector – w/ Jerry Dias (National President, Unifor), Ali Ehsassi MP, Former MP Frank Baylis, Jan Wescott (President & CEO, Spirits Canada)

The Economy Today & Tomorrow – w/ Business Council CEO Goldy Hyder

The Future of the Public Service – w/ Former Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick, Greg Fergus MP, Debi Duviau (President, Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada), Lynda Tarras (Head, Public Service Agency, British Columbia)

COVID-19 in Other Countries – w/ Ambassadors of Japan, Germany, Representative of Taipei, Michael Levitt MP

The Crisis of Long-Term Care – w/ Donna Duncan (CEO, Ontario Long Term Care Association), Vicki McKenna (President, Ontario Nurses Association), Iris Evans (Former Alberta Finance Minister)

COVID and the Tourism & Travel Industries – w/ Phil Mondor (President and CEO, Tourism Human Resource Council), Keith Henry (President & CEO, Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada), Mike McNaney (President & CEO, National Airlines Council of Canada), Sarah Chown (Ottawa Regional Chair of the Ontario Restaurant Hotel & Motel Association)

Racism in Canada – w/ Prof. Wesley Crichlow (Chair, President’s Equity Taskforce, Ontario Tech University), Rose LeMay (CEO, Indigenous Reconciliation Group), Greg Fergus MP, Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, Avvy Go (Director, Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic), Sharleen Stewart (President, SEIU Healthcare)

COVID-19 on the World Stage – w/ High Commissioner, Ambassadors, and Chargée d’Affaires a.i. of South Africa, Mexico, Morocco, and Jamaican

Online Citizen Engagement – w/ Mark Blevis (Director, Public Affairs and Marketing, Commissionaires Canada), Steven Staples (President, Public Response)

The Canadian Economy: Now and Post-COVID – w/Dr. Jim Stanford

Basic Income: Is This the Time? – w/ Senator Frances Lankin, Former MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette, Sheila Regehr (Chairperson, Basic Income Canada Network), Terrance Hunsley (Senior Fellow, The Pearson Centre)

Infrastructure and Economic Recovery – w/ Hon. Catherine McKenna, Former NB Premier Brian Gallant

The Present and Future of Canada-China Relations – w/ Chinese Ambassador Cong Peiwu

Canada, the World & the UN – w/ Hon. Bob Rae, Prof. Andrew Cohen (Columnist, Author)

Brian Mulroney & An Agenda for Canadian Greatness – w/ Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney, Former NB Premier Brian Gallant

COVID-19, the Economy and Immigration – w/ Hon. Marco Mendicino, Indira Naidoo-Harris (Former Ontario Education Minister; University of Guelph AVP Diversity and Human Rights), Denise Amyot (President and CEO, Colleges and Institutes Canada), Ameerally Kassim-Lakha (Real Estate Developer; Entrepreneur; President, Ismaili Council for Canada)

Youth Climate Action in the Post-COVID Era – w/ Will Amos (MP for Pontiac; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry (Science)), Meredith Adler (Executive Director, Student Energy), Stella Markovska (Youth Organizer, Sustainabiliteens), Micaela Tam (Co-President, University of Toronto Environmental Action; Development Research Analyst, NetHope)

Innovation and Manufacturing in the Time of COVID-19 – w/ Hon. Navdeep Bains (federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry), Rhonda Barnet (President & COO at AVIT Manufacturing; Past Chair of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters)

The Economics of Recovery – w/ Prof. Ian Lee (Associate Professor, Management, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University), Angela MacEwen (Chief Economist, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)), Francesco Sorbara (MP for Vaughan-Woodbridge; Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue), Yasmin Ratansi (MP for Don Valley East)

Fair and Effective Taxation on Global Corporations – w/ Prof. Allison Christians (Associate Dean, McGill University Faculty of Law; H. Heward Stikeman Chair in Tax Law), Toby Sanger (Executive Director of Canadians for Tax Fairness; Steering Committee Member, Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT)), Chandra Anrya (MP for Nepean), Terrence Hunsley (Senior Fellow, The Pearson Centre; Editor, SocialCanada.Org)

The Throne Speech – A Time for Basic Income? – w/ Hon. Hugh Segal (Former Senator (Ontario); Progressive Conservative Strategist), Hon. Kim Pate (Senator (Ontario), Independent Senators Group), Terrance Hunsley (Senior Fellow, The Pearson Centre; Editor, SocialCanada.Org)

 

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