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Registration now open for final panel in the Canada We Want in 2020 speaker series
Tickets are now available for our fifth and final panel of this year’s Canada We Want in 2020 Speaker Series. Canada 2020 presents the follow-up to last year’s sold-out Canada We Want in 2020 speaker series with five new events on our five policy topics every month. On May 28, 2013 at 4:30 PM, our sequel to last year’s discussion on securing our health system for the future will focus on: Confronting the Crisis in Public Health While provinces work on the specifics of health system reform, the federal government has an opportunity to change the ethos behind health and…
Media round-up: Canada 2020 hosts ‘adult conversation’ on carbon pricing
Thank you to everyone who attended and watched Canada 2020′s ‘How to sell carbon pricing to Canadians‘ this past Wednesday in Ottawa. Over 500 people packed the Chateau’s ballroom, with another 200 watching online. Scan below for the media coverage both for our event and report (Why would Canadians buy carbon pricing? by Diana Carney) garnered: CBC News, coverage: ‘Panel participants call for carbon tax’ CBC Power & Politics, with Evan Solomon: Interview with Bob Inglis, Diana Carney and Kathryn Harrison Globe & Mail, op-ed by Grant Bishop: ‘Break the deadlock on carbon pricing: it’s hurting Canada’s economy’ Globe &…
More tickets, bigger room for Canada 2020′s all-star carbon panel
EVEN MORE TICKETS JUST RELEASED Due to increased demand for our panel ‘How to sell carbon pricing to Canadians‘ – the fourth in our 2013 series about the Canada We Want in 2020 – we have released a new block of tickets, and moved to a larger room in the Château Laurier Hotel. Tomorrow, Wednesday, April 17th, we will be live from the grand Ballroom from 4:30 to 6:30 PM to discuss whether the time is right to change the dialogue on carbon pricing in Canada. Don Newman will moderate this free panel discussion with our expert guests: Jean Charest, former…
Announcing the winner of Canada 2020 & uOttawa’s Student Prize Essay contest
In November 2012, Canada 2020’s leadership met with the faculty and staff of the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) with the goal of engaging their students in our marquee project The Canada We Want in 2020. We created a prize essay contest, with gracious financial support from the administration of GSPIA, where students were asked to write a short paper on a policy challenge facing the federal government, and what a progressive policy solution would look like. This is the winning submission, entitled ‘Re-evaluating the Canada Pension Plan Disability Benefit and its Return-to-Work Incentives’ In…
Background paper and deck for next week’s carbon event now online
For the full background paper, click here. For the summary deck, click here.
Canada 2020 reaction to #Budget2013
(21 March 2013) OTTAWA – Canada 2020′s Tim Barber had the following statement on the 2013 Economic Action Plan, released today: “Canada 2020 supports the federal government’s efforts to close Canada’s growing skilled trades gap, which in some sectors shows a shortage of 150,000 labourers. This year, Canada 2020 worked to move the government in the right direction by hosting a summit on Skilled Trades in the Energy Sector. Through our work, we listened and learned from all stakeholders currently feeling the stress of the skilled trades gap: colleges, first nations, industry, labour groups and the provinces. Each have told…
Canada 2020 media availability for #Budget2013
(21 March 2013) OTTAWA – Canada 2020 is available for comment on today’s federal budget. Canada’s Economic Action Plan is expected to focus heavily on job training and skilled trades, which is one of Canada 2020’s core areas of research for 2013. In February, Canada 2020 hosted SKILLED TRADES IN THE ENERGY SECTOR, a conference bringing together federal Ministers, senior government officials, and stakeholders from industry, colleges, labour and First Nations. Minister Diane Finley, Minister Lisa Raitt, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Education Clyde Jackman and various other officials spoke about how to close the estimated gap of 150,000 skilled workers…
April 17 carbon panel: Jean Charest, Elizabeth May, Bob Inglis, Eric Newell & Kathryn Harrison
MEDIA ADVISORY Jean Charest, Elizabeth May, Bob Inglis, Eric Newell and Kathryn Harrison to discuss how to sell carbon pricing to Canadians at Canada 2020 panel Tickets will go quickly for this all-star panel so register now to be part of the conversation OTTAWA – March 18, 2013 –Canada 2020 is convening an all-star panel of experts to talk about how to sell carbon pricing to Canadians. Registration, which is free and open to the public, opened this morning. Seats will go fast for this highly anticipated discussion on Canada’s energy future. In announcing the event, Canada 2020’s Tim Barber…
Catch up on the Canada We Want in 2020 Speaker Series
Have you missed the last two Canada We Want in 2020 Speaker Series events? We always livecast our panels at www.canada2020.ca/live, and record them for later consumption. Click the links below to watch the first two of five panels we will be hosting this year on our five policy topics. Equality of Opportunity: A Canadian dream? Featuring Miles Corak, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Carolyn Acker, and Ron Haskins Competition Matters Featuring John Manley, Glenn Ives, Marcel Cote and Melanie Aitken
Canada 2020 hosts Minister Finley, Minister Raitt and provincial leaders at skilled trades conference
Canada 2020 host pivotal summit on the growing skilled trades gap in Canada’s energy sector Minister Diane Finley, Minister Lisa Raitt, and Newfoundland’s Minister of Education Clyde Jackman address government, labour, industry, academic and aboriginal leaders for action-oriented discussion on Canada’s skilled trades’ gap OTTAWA – February 22, 2013 – With an estimate shortage of 150,000 skilled workers in Canada’s energy sector alone, Canada 2020 is bringing together federal and provincial governments, labour, industry, academic and aboriginal leaders for an action-oriented talk on how to get more Canadians into the skilled trades. The all-day conference, held at the Chateau Laurier’s…
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