WALTER GORDON SYMPOSIUM 2019

Canada 2050: Visions of the Future

Presented with the generous support of WALTER GORDON SYMPOSIUM 2019 #wgs2019 2050: Visions of the Future Acknowledgement of Traditional Lands

We would like to acknowledge this sacred land upon which the University of operates. It has been a site of human activity for over 15,000 years. In this time, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. Tkaronto–the place in the water where the trees are standing–is in the Dish-With-One-Spoon territory. The Dish-With-One-Spoon is a treaty between the Anishinaabe, Mississaugas, and Haudenosaunee that binds them to share and protect the land. As with other traditional agreements between the First Peoples of this area, the treaty is marked with a wampum belt. Subsequent Indigenous Nations and peoples, Europeans and all newcomers, have been invited into this treaty alongside the original stewards of this land in the spirit of peace, friendship, and respect.

Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still home to many Indigenous peoples from across Turtle Island and we are grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and play in this community.

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We would like to thank you for your interest in the 2019 Walter Gordon Symposium. We hope you are as excited as we are to hear from the amazing journalists, academics, and thought leaders here today who have graciously agreed to share their knowledge and ideas on a number of important topics related to this year’s theme: Canada 2050: Visions of the Future.

In addition to today’s fantastic panelists, this event would not have been possible without the generous support of Massey College and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. In particular, we would like to thank Dr. Carolyn Tuohy and Dr. Tom Axworthy for their guidance, trust and counsel in planning this event. We also thank the Honourable Hugh Segal, Principal of Massey College, for his support and advice throughout this process. Finally, we would like to thank the countless staff at both institutions who have contributed their time and effort to making this event a success.

We hope that you enjoy today’s event and that the knowledge and perspectives that are presented may help to inform your own thinking on what the Canada of the future might look like.

Sincerely, The 2018-2019 Walter Gordon Symposium Organizing Committee:

Saif Alnuweiri (MPP) Arpit Kumar (MPP) Sharly Chan (MI) Ryan Phillips (MPP) Maddy DeWelles (MA, Education) Julian Posada (PhD, Information) Francesco Ducci (SJD) Zoe Sebastien (JD) Jamie Duncan (MI) Keshna Sood (PhD, Medicine) Charlie Katrycz (PhD, Enginneering) Anjum Sultana (MPH) Nuri Kim (MPP) Nicole Winger (MPP)

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The Walter Gordon Symposium is named after the Honourable Walter Gordon, who was Minister of Finance and President of the Privy Council under the government of Lester B. Pearson. The series, which began in 1990 under the leadership of then head of the College, Ann Saddlemyer, was designed to present annually a topic of immediate Canadian significance to an interested audience drawn from the worlds of academia, business, and government. The series has discussed important issues such as the future of public broadcasting, the possibility of a North American culture, the state of feminism, the possibility of replacing welfare with guaranteed basic income, the looming shape of Canadian economic planning set against global integration, and the changing nature of eco-politics. The series is sponsored by Massey College and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. The Symposium is organized by a team of students from Massey College and the Munk School. For more information, visit our website at: https://www. waltergordonsymposium.com.

Walter Gordon Symposium 2019

This year’s Symposium is entitled Canada 2050: Visions of the Future. What will Canada look like in 2050 and how do we want it to look? Will AI play a larger role in business and in Canada’s economy? What might future urban cities look like and how large will Canada’s population be? The policy decisions we make now will affect crucial issues such as inclusiveness, diversity and growth for years to come and will shape Canada’s future. For this reason, it is important that we take the time to reflect on how far Canada has come, and think about the direction we want Canada to go. The lunch-time Keynote Address will be given by Doug Saunders and the Symposium will feature four panels: Canada’s Future Population, The Future of Canada’s Cities, The Future of Canada’s Resources, and The Future of Work in Canada.

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Agenda Friday, March 1st, 2019

8:00 am Registration and Breakfast 8:45 am Opening Remarks 9:00 am - 10:15 am Canada’s Future Population 10:15 am - 11:30 pm The Future of Canada’s Cities 11:30 am – 12:15 pm Lunch 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm Keynote: Doug Saunders 1:30 pm - 2:45 pm The Future of Canada’s Resources 2:45 pm - 4:00 pm The Future of Work in Canada 4:00 pm Closing Remarks

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Morning Panels

Canada’s Future Population

What will Canada’s population look like in 2050? Will the country be experiencing a marked decrease in its population, or will it have exceeded demographic projections with a higher intake of immigrants? What will Canada look like in light of the doubling of its senior population, and how will newcomers be integrated into Canadian society? This panel aims to explore what factors inform policy decisions related to Canada’s population growth and immigration policies. It also aims to examine the ways in which population growth and immigration policies impact other areas of Canadian society such as the labour force, the economy and education.

Moderator: Phil Triadafilopoulos Panelists: Robert Steiner, Charles Foran, William B. P. Robson, and Harry Malcolmson

The Future of Canada’s Cities

Canada’s cities are re-defining themselves. From innovative and eco-friendly building strategies to the development of “smart” infrastructure that can be monitored and controlled remotely, Canada has sought to place itself at the forefront of urban futures. These trends have given rise to a great deal of concern over what the future will hold: will future technological changes improve the quality of life in Canada, or usher in a new age of surveillance, a lack of privacy, and inequality? Panelists will comment on the trajectory of Canadian urban development, offering their perspectives on maximizing the benefits of urban technology and on planning for a diverse, growing urban population.

Moderator: Stefan Novakovic Panelists: Nasma Ahmed, Gregg Lintern, and Bianca Wylie

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Keynote Address: Doug Saunders

The Keynote from Doug Saunders will address the crucial need to plan for a larger Canada, the consequences of Canada’s past failure to do so and the benefits that can be obtained by embracing greater population density.

Doug Saunders is an author and journalist of Canadian and British citizenship. He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011), The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and Maximum Canada (2017) and is the international-affairs columnist for the Canadian national newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions, as well as the Schelling Prize for Architectural Theory, the Donner Prize and the National Library of China Wenjin Book Award.

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Afternoon Panels

The Future of Canada’s Resources

How should we think about Canada’s relationship to its natural resources and how should we think about Canada’s environment? This panel explores Canada’s current patterns of production and consumption, and asks how current policy decisions might affect Canada’s relationship to resources in the future. In particular, this panel examines current trends of consumption of Canada’s natural resources such as wind energy, forestry, mining, fishing, agriculture, and oil use. This panel also seeks to examine what the future might look like in terms of Canada’s consumption of natural resources, which resources might be preferred in the future, and what this might mean for Canada’s environment, and its citizens.

Moderator: Shawn McCarthy Panelists: Tom Rand, Marla Orenstein, and Jean Paul Gladu

The Future of Work in Canada

This panel looks at current trends in the transformation of work and discusses what the workforce and workplace in Canada might be like in 2050. The forces shaping the future of work, both in Canada and around the world, are manifold. These include rapid technological developments and the prospect of machines replacing humans; globalization and the dislocations created by international trade; domestic considerations of diversity and fairness, as well as issues of inequality in a fast-changing world. The panel aims to examine how Canada should address these global challenges as well as critical domestic issues that will shape the nature of work in the future, by rethinking standard models of work and labour market adjustment policies in response to disruptions created by globalization, technology, and social change.

Moderator: Sheila Block Panelists: Sunil Johal, Carlo Fanelli, and AJ Tibando

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Panelists

Canada’s Future Population

Moderator: Phil Triadafilopoulos Phil Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Scarborough and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. He is the author of Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Membership in Canada and Germany, the editor of Wanted and Welcome? Policies for Highly Skilled Immigrants in Comparative Perspective, and co-editor (with Kristin Good and Luc Turgeon) of Segmented Cities? How Urban Contexts Shape Ethnic and Nationalist Politics. Triadafilopoulos’ current research examines the extension of public funding for Islamic religious education in Canada and Germany.

Charles Foran Charlie Foran holds degrees from the University of Toronto and the University College, Dublin, and has taught in China, Hong Kong, and Canada. He has published eleven books, including five novels. His fiction, non-fiction, and journalism have won the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Weston Prize, and the Taylor Prize, among others. Charlie has also made radio documentaries for the CBC program Ideas and co-wrote the Geminiwinning TV documentary : The Last of the Wild Jews. A past president of PEN Canada, he is a senior fellow at Massey College, and an adjunct professor in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. In 2014 he was named to the Order of Canada. From 2015-2019, Charlie Foran served as CEO of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC). Since 2016 the ICC has presented 6 Degrees, a global platform dedicated to exploring inclusion and citizenship in the 21st century.

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William B. P. Robson Bill Robson took office as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President since 2003 and Director of Research since 2000. He has written more than 230 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues. His work has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He is a member of the Panel of Senior Advisors to the Auditor General of and the Ifo World Economic Survey expert group, and a regular commentator on BNN/Bloomberg. Bill taught public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003, and currently teaches a Master’s level course in public finance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Robert Steiner Robert Steiner is Director of the Fellowships in Global Journalism at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto. The Fellowships are the first journalism program specifically designed for subject-matter specialists. Mr. Steiner has worked as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, as a business strategy executive at The Boston Consulting Group, and at the parent company the Globe and Mail and CTV. He has also held a number of senior campaign positions in Canadian politics – serving as a policy advisor and speech-writer for Paul Martin, and as a communications advisor for Prime Minister Jean Chretien. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. Steiner served as Assistant Vice President of the University of Toronto in charge of Strategic Communication.

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Harry Malcolmson Harry Malcolmson’s career includes practising securities and corporate law, Senior Officer at the Ontario Securities Commission, adviser to the Canadian Bankers Association and Project Leader on international assignments for the World Bank the Asian Development Bank and the United Nation. The projects were undertaken in the Middle East (Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and Saudia Arabia), South Asia (Malaysia and Pakistan), the Far East) (China, Sri Lanka and Korea) and the Carribean (Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.) Harry’s art criticism was published in Toronto, Canadian and international art publications. With his wife, Harry accumulated an important collection of international vintage photography. In 2014, the collection was donated to the Art Gallery of Ontario, as the Malcolmson Collection.

The Future of Canada’s Cities

Moderator: Stefan Novakovic Stefan Novakovic is an associate editor at Canadian Architect, Canadian Interiors and Building magazines. A graduate of McGill University, Novakovic has covered urban policy and architecture for publications such as Urban Toronto and Torontoist.

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Bianca Wylie Bianca is an open government advocate with a dual background in technology and public engagement. She is the co-founder of Tech Reset Canada and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in the Global Economy program. She worked for several years in the tech sector in operations, infrastructure, corporate training, and product management, most recently at Thomson Reuters. As a facilitator at Swerhun Inc., she designed, delivered and supported public consultation processes for various governments and government Agencies. In 2014 Bianca founded the Open Data Institute Toronto and in 2016 she co-founded Civic Tech Toronto. She is a columnist, guest lecturer, and speaker on open government and public sector technology policy and a proud member of the Toronto Public Library’s Innovation Council and the Toronto Open Smart Cities Forum.

Gregg Lintern As Chief Planner for the City of Toronto, Gregg is committed to leading the City Planning Division to making Toronto one of the world’s most liveable and equitable cities. In his 35 years of municipal planning, Gregg has held various roles and responsibilities in several different community planning districts across the City giving him a deep institutional knowledge, understanding of legislation, and history of working across the municipal spectrum. Gregg’s proven track record in delivering transformative projects of both city-wide and local significance demonstrates his ability to steer city-building in a manner that consistently looks to the future. He has led many significant projects in the City, including a plan for Toronto’s downtown known as “TOcore”, the Port Lands Planning Framework, Mirvish + Gehry, Mirvish Village, Yonge-Dundas Revitalization, Billy Bishop Airport and Regent Park. Gregg strongly believes in a positive future for Toronto. As Chief Planner, his priorities include transit network expansion, housing affordability, proactive planning and improvements to the Development Review Process, and implementing OMB Reform.

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Nasma Ahmed Nasma Ahmed is a technologist and community organizer that works within the intersections of social justice, technology and policy. She is currently the Director of the Digital Justice Lab, an organization that focuses on building a more just and equitable digital future. Nasma was the Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow in 2017-2018 where she focused on organizational digital security and building better literacy around privacy for youth.

The Future of Canada’s Resources

Moderator: Shawn McCarthy Shawn McCarthy is a national business correspondent for The Globe and Mail. He writes on various aspects of the international energy industry, from oil and gas production and refining, to the development of new technologies, to the business implications of climate change regulations. Recent coverage includes how the energy industry is coping with the climate change challenge and international energy supply and demand.

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Jean Paul Gladu Jean Paul (JP) Gladu is currently the President and CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) based in Toronto. Anishinaabe from Thunder Bay, Mr. Gladu is a member of Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek located on the eastern shores of Lake Nipigon, Ontario. Mr. Gladu has over two decades of experience in the natural resource sector. Mr. Gladu’s career includes work with Aboriginal communities and organizations, environmental non-government organizations, industry and governments from across Canada. In Mr. Gladu’s present role at CCAB, he speaks extensively not only across Canada but internationally as he shares the challenges and successes of Aboriginal business in Canada today. Additionally, Mr. Gladu serves on the Board of Ontario Power Generation and Noront Resources as well as the Canadian Electricity Association Public Advisory Panel, and has recently been appointed as the Chancellor of St. Paul’s University College Waterloo.

Marla Orenstein As Director of the Natural Resources Centre, Marla Orenstein champions the responsible development of the West’s natural resources for the benefit of all. She is a subject matter expert in impact assessment, and brings a comprehensive understanding of current standards and best practices including guidelines on impact assessment established by regulatory agencies, multilateral finance institutions, international agencies and industry organizations. She also currently holds the position of President of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA). Marla has led projects for both the public and private sector, on behalf of government, Indigenous government, industry, and community organizations. Her focus has been on ensuring the wellbeing of communities in the context of development and change.

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Tom Rand Tom Rand is a global thought leader and a keen promoter of a low carbon economy. A green entrepreneur, investor, advisor, public speaker, and author, Mr. Rand seeks to bring clean technology to life. Mr. Rand is currently Managing Partner at the privately-backed ArcTern Ventures and Senior Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District in downtown Toronto, Canada where he helps the next generation of cleantech companies grow to global leadership. Mr. Rand is founder and director of VCi Green Funds, a seed and venture capital fund in the low-carbon sector; co-developer of Planet Traveler, the “greenest hotel in North America”; and sits on the Board of Directors of a number of cleantech companies and organizations.

The Future of Work in Canada

Moderator: Sheila Block Sheila Block is a senior economist and a public commentator with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sheila’s research specializes in Canada’s labour market, public finance, and inequality. She has worked as both a political advisor and a public servant in the Ontario government and as an economist in the labour movement. Sheila has an Honours B.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Toronto.

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AJ Tibando AJ is the Executive Director of Palette Inc. and a Fellow at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship. Palette is a national non-profit that helps fast growing companies in the digital economy find talent by upskilling mid- career workers impacted by automation. AJ spent six years within the provincial government serving as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Ministry of Research and Innovation and the Ministry of Community and Social Services. Prior to launching Palette, she cofounded SoJo, a social enterprise dedicated to working with educators and non-profits to provide curriculum and tools to train aspiring social entrepreneurs in the startup process.

Carlo Fanelli Carlo Fanelli is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Work and Labour Studies in the Department of Social Science at York University. He is the author of Megacity Malaise: Neoliberalism, Public Services and Labour in Toronto, and co-editor (with Bryan Evans) of The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity: Perspectives From Canada’s Provinces and Territories, in addition to Change and Continuity: Canadian Political Economy in the New Millennium (co-edited with Mark P. Thomas, Leah Vosko and Olena Lyubchencko.)

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Sunil Johal Sunil Johal is Policy Director at the Mowat Centre, an independent public policy at the University of Toronto. He leads the Centre’s research activities, manages the research team and teaches a variety of executive education courses. He is frequently invited to advise governments and international organizations about disruptive technologies and regulatory and policy issues. He has authored more than 20 influential policy reports on a range of social, economic and regulatory topics. Before joining the University of Toronto in 2012, Sunil was a Director with the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation where he led the government’s efforts to modernize its regulatory environment. He has also held senior executive and policy roles with the Cabinet Office, Ministries of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs and federal Treasury Board Secretariat. Sunil is regularly asked to speak about the future of work, technology and social policy at conferences in Canada and abroad. He has contributed expert commentary and advice on policy issues to a range of organizations and media outlets, including the G-20, World Economic Forum, Brookings Institution, and Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Radio and Television, among others.

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