CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region

CivicAction is a multi-sectoral coalition of thousands of civic leaders committed to acting collectively to tackle tough issues and big opportunities facing the Greater region. CivicAction’s Greater Toronto Summits bring leaders from all walks of life together to assess the region’s strengths and challenges and to identify priority areas and opportunities for attention. In the periods between Summits, CivicAction takes a role in incubating innovative initiatives designed to galvanize action in these priority areas.

CivicAction’s current initiatives are aimed at: making the Greater Toronto region flourish through environmental action and (Greening Greater Toronto – greeninggreatertoronto.ca); creating a leadership landscape that better reflects the region’s diversity (DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project, in partnership with Maytree – diversecitytoronto.ca); and connecting and supporting rising city-builders (the Emerging Leaders Network – elnonline.ca).

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All photos in this report are credited to Hightop Studio Report designed by Julia Lo and Tiffany Vong CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Table of Contents

Collective Leadership on Tough Issues 2 and Big Opportunities

CivicAction Steering Committees 4

Recommendations & Civic Actions 7

Proceedings • Economy 13 • Jobs & Income 16 • Transportation 20 • Immigration 23 • Diversity 26 • Environment 28 • Housing 31 • Neighbourhoods 33 • Arts & Culture 35 • Pan/Parapan Am Games & Youth 38 • Endnotes 40

Appendices • More Good Ideas 43 • Acknowledgements 44 • Delegates 49

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region CivicAction is unique. No other • our air, water and lands are clean organization convenes leaders from and healthy, enabling our physical across the Greater Toronto region and economic prosperity; and, and from every sector to collectively overarching all of these aspirations, tackle our shared social, economic • we think and act like a region, with and environmental issues. CivicAction each of us recognizing that we have breaks boundaries between sometimes a role to play in our future success. competing people and groups, bringing them together to agree on and pursue In keeping with our tradition of goals that advance us all. We are collective leadership and our renewed motivated by the belief that government commitment to thinking and acting o u gh alone can’t solve all of the issues we regionally, we also used the Summit as face: the best solutions to complex civic an opportunity to ask regional leaders challenges are created when traditional what CivicAction and others can do to players as well as the “unusual support and encourage cross-sectoral suspects” are at the table. regional collaboration. The discussions surfaced a number of ideas: When over 1,000 regional leaders from business, government, non-profits, Share what we’ve learned about labour and academia came together at collaboration: Capture what has been CivicAction’s Greater Toronto Summit learned from CivicAction projects and 2011, they were following in the examine its process of collaboration footsteps of thousands of others who, – from who is invited to participate since 2002, have worked together to to what constitutes a successful identify and respond in innovative ways collaboration. This would serve to our region’s strengths, challenges and theoretical research purposes as well opportunities. as provide practical guidance to others embarking on collective civic leadership The Summit was an exhilarating two activities here, across the country and days that included intense discussions internationally. on ten pressing issues. These discussions focused on proposals Facilitate opportunities for people to emerging from year-long pre-Summit work across sectors: Explore cross- consultations and were informed by 94 sectoral exchanges, online matching guest speakers and documented by 170 of interested leaders with collaborative volunteer note-takers and facilitators. projects, and other potential Beyond developing ideas on specific mechanisms to build relationships issues, the Summit gave people an between regional leaders and to enhance opportunity to share their hopes for the future sharing and collaboration. future of the Greater Toronto region. They described a future in which: Expand the culture of volunteerism: Responding to the provincial Partnership • our economy is strong, having built Project’s recommendation that on our diversity and educational and social media, recognition awards industrial strengths; and other mechanisms be used to • we have homes and jobs for all, with encourage volunteerism, Summit narrowing income gaps and robust participants proposed a tax credit tied neighbourhoods; to volunteerism and a business version

u nities I ss u es and B ig O pport • people and goods move easily, using of the high school 40-hour community efficient transit, roads and paths for service program in which employees walking and biking; would get paid leave to meet a similar • newcomers can fully deploy their mandate. This would also allow for more

C ollecti v e L eadership on T talents and skills, are rewarded knowledge exchange between businesses appropriately and are better and non-profit organizations. represented in the leadership ranks of all aspects of life in the city region; • the collective value of the arts and culture sector is recognized, supported and celebrated; 2

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Embed CivicAction across the region: On behalf of the Continue to build CivicAction’s regional CivicAction Board of Directors network. One idea was to incubate satellites (i.e. CivicAction Peel, Kilian Berz CivicAction Etobicoke) or to partner with Partner & Managing Director, regional organizations that could host The Boston Consulting Group their own Summits, building a regional process that would feed into a larger Charles Coffey Summit. Executive Vice President, Government Affairs and Business Development This document is a summary of the (retired), RBC social, economic and environmental issues discussed at the Summit and the Hon. David Crombie key recommendations that it produced. Former CEO, Canadian Urban Institute For each issue, we have noted relevant Former Mayor, City of Toronto challenges and strengths and the specific actions that should be taken Julia Deans by governments, business, non-profits CEO, CivicAction (ex officio) and others – either acting alone or in collaboration with other sectors – to help Susan McIsaac us all make progress. President & CEO, United Way Toronto

As the summary of recommendations and next steps, or “civic actions”, on President, Maytree the next five pages show, CivicAction is committed to helping drive progress Mike Pedersen on all of these issues. Where existing Group Head, Wealth Management, organizations have the mandate and Insurance, & Corporate Shared Services, capacity to lead, CivicAction will inform TD Bank Group and support their work, using our networks and convening experience to Susan Pigott help incubate new efforts where that is Vice President, Communications and desirable. Where there is an unresolved Community Engagement, issue with no obvious home, we will Centre for Addiction & Mental Health work with partners to create needed initiatives. Courtney Pratt Chairman, Toronto Region Research We should be proud of the many great Alliance things happening in the Greater Toronto region, but recognize that there is much Peter Sloly more to do. We must each look for Deputy Chief, Executive Command, our own opportunities to be part of a Toronto Police Service collective leadership that thinks and acts regionally in advancing the region. In the words of our founding Chair, David Chair, CivicAction Pecaut: Carol Wilding “A city [region] that is filled with civic President & CEO, The Toronto Board of entrepreneurs practicing collective Trade leadership will be able to face any challenge and do all kinds of great things on economic issues, social issues, education, the arts, the environment, leveraging the richness of our diversity and much, much more.’’1

John Tory, Chair Julia Deans, CEO 3 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region A Note on CivicAction’s Founding and 2011-15 Steering Committees After nearly nine years of developing innovative solutions to address complex urban challenges, CivicAction has become vital part of the public policy landscape. CivicAction’s impact to date owes much to its Founding Steering Committee members – a dedicated group of leaders who have guided our work since 2003. We thank them for their determination and vision, and for their continued support of CivicAction.

We also thank and welcome the members of our new 2011-15 Steering Committee, who will help set and guide our post-Summit agenda and lay the groundwork for the Greater Toronto Summit in 2015 and interim review in 2013. We look forward to working with the following regional leaders and their partners and networks to move the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 recommendations forward:

ction FOUNDING STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS * Serving on 2011-15 Steering Committee David Pecaut (1955-2009) Michael Clemons Robert “Squee” Gordon* Founding and Former Chair, President, Toronto Argonauts President Emeritus, Humber Toronto City Summit Alliance College (now CivicAction) Charles Coffey* Executive Vice President, Ken Greenberg* John Tory* Government Affairs and Principal, Greenberg Chair, CivicAction Business Development Consultants Inc. Co-Chair, DiverseCity (retired), RBC David Griffiths Charles Baillie Martin Connell Managing Consultant, IBM

C i v ic A Chancellor Emeritus, Queen’s Past Chair, Toronto Ltd. University Community Foundation Co-Founder, Ace Bakeries Piers Handling Dr. Bob Bell Director & CEO, Toronto President & CEO, University Hon. David Crombie* International Film Festival Health Network Former CEO, Canadian Urban Institute John Honderich Avie Bennett Former Mayor, City of Toronto Director, Torstar Corporation Chairman and President, First Plazas Inc. John Davies Shirley Hoy President, Humber College CEO, Toronto Lands Joe Berridge* Institute of Technology and Corporation Partner, Urban Strategies Inc. Advanced Learning Kevin King Rahul Bhardwaj* Hon. William Davis Law Student, Osgoode Hall President & CEO, Toronto Former Premier of Law School Community Foundation Joan Dea Veronica Lacey Jill Black President & CEO, The President, J.E. Black & Sam Duboc Learning Partnership Company Ltd. President & Managing Partner, EdgeStone Capital Partners Alan Broadbent Inc. Co-Commissioner, Ontario’s steering committee S Chairman & CEO, Avana Social Assistance Review Capital Corp. Dr. John Evans Former President & CEO, Chairman, Maytree Founding Chair, MaRS United Way Toronto Discovery District Ann Buller Founding Co-Chair, Toronto Sheldon Levy President & CEO, Centennial Region Research Alliance President, College Robert Fung Rob MacIsaac Geoff Cape Orion Securities Inc. President, Executive Director, Evergreen Past Chair, Kevin Garland John Cartwright Executive Director, The Bill MacKinnon President, Toronto & York National Ballet of Canada Chair, Canadian Institute of Regional Labour Council Chartered Accountants Anne Golden* John Cassaday President & CEO, The Bahadur Madhani* President & CEO, Corus Conference Board of Canada President, Equiprop 4 Entertainment Inc. Management Ltd. CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Roberto Martella Ratna Omidvar* Kenn Richard Owner, Grano Restaurant President, Maytree Executive Director, Native Co-Chair, DiverseCity Child and Family Services Susan McIsaac* President & CEO, United Way Bob Onyschuk Anne Sado Toronto Former Chairman, Canadian President, George Brown Urban Institute College Dave Meslin Community Choreographer, David Paterson Dr. Mamdouh Shoukri Pigeonhat Head of Government Relations President & Vice-Chancellor, and Public Policy, Research in Dr. David Naylor Motion President, University of Peter Sloly* Toronto Hon. Deputy Chief, Executive Chairman, Cassels Brock LLP Command, Toronto Police Winnie Ng Chancellor, University of Service Regional Director, Canadian Toronto Labour Congress Edward Sorbara Susan Pigott* Principal, Sorbara Group Gordon Nixon Vice President, President & CEO, RBC Communications and Carol Wilding* Chair, MaRS Discovery District Community Engagement, President & CEO, The Toronto Co-Chair, Toronto Region Centre for Addiction & Mental Board of Trade Immigrant Employment Health Council Dr. Joseph Wong Courtney Pratt* Chairman, Yee Hong Centre David O’Brien Chairman, Toronto Region for Geriatric Care Former President & CEO, Research Alliance Toronto Hydro

2011-15 STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS

David Agnew Brian Denney President, CAO, Toronto and Region President & CEO, Canadian Conservation Authority Urban Institute Jehad Aliweiwi Executive Director, Thorncliffe Steve Diamond Susan Eng Neighbourhood Office President and CEO, Vice President, Advocacy, Diamondcorp Canadian Association of Michael Angemeer Retired People President & CEO, Veridian Michelle DiEmanuele President & CEO, Credit Valley Cam Fowler Willa Black Hospital Executive Vice President, Vice-President, Corporate Personal and Commercial Affairs, Cisco Canada Debbie Douglas Banking Canada, BMO Executive Director, Ontario Financial Group (Greening Pat Capponi Council of Agencies Serving Canada Fund Chair) Facilitator, Voices from the Immigrants Street Larry Frost Pat Draper Executive Director, Native Robin Cardozo President, Toronto Region Canadian Centre of Toronto CEO, Ontario Trillium Research Alliance Foundation Andrew Graham Rob Drynan Senior Director, Corporate Mark Chamberlain President, MacLaren kiindrid Development, George Weston CEO, Trivaris Ltd. (ELN – Toronto Janet Ecker Homecoming Co-Chair) John Cruickshank President, Toronto Financial Publisher, The Services Alliance Anthony Haines President & CEO, Toronto Nan DasGupta Hon. Art Eggleton Hydro Partner, The Boston Consulting Senator, Group

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Julia Hanigsberg Elizabeth McIsaac Enid Slack Vice President, Finance and Executive Director, Toronto Director, Institute on Municipal Administration, Ryerson Region Immigrant Employment Finance and Governance, University (Founding ELN Council member) Kwame McKenzie Pradeep Sood Gillian Hewitt Smith Senior Scientist, Social Equity Past-Chair, Ontario Chamber Executive Director & CEO, and Health Research, Centre of Commerce Institute for Canadian for Addiction and Mental Citizenship (DiverseCity Fellow, Health John Stackhouse 2009) Editor-in-Chief, The Globe and Tim McTiernan Mail Janet Holder President, University of President, Gas Distribution, Ontario Institute of Technology Karim Sunderji Enbridge Gas Distribution President, Ismaili Muslim Matthew Mendelsohn Council for Ontario Patrick Horgan Director, Mowat Centre for Vice President, Operations, Policy Innovation Tonya Surman IBM Canada Ltd. Executive Director, Centre for Louroz Mercader Social Innovation Sandy Houston Founder and President, President, Metcalf Foundation Youth Games Jasmine Tehara (DiverseCity Fellow, 2009) Assistant Vice-President, TD Bank Group (DiverseCity CAO, Toronto Community Hon. Don Meredith Fellow, 2010) Housing (ELN Co-Chair) Senator, Senate of Canada Bill Thomas Warren Jestin Marie Moliner CEO & Senior Partner, KPMG Senior Vice President & Chief Regional Executive Director, LLP Economist, Scotiabank Ontario Region, Department of Canadian Heritage Jennifer Tory Tim Jones Regional President, RBC President & CEO, Artscape Robert Montgomery Principal, Achilles Media Ltd. Ian Troop Stephani Kingsmill CEO, Toronto 2015 Pan/ Executive Vice President, Patrick Moyle Parapan American Games Human Resources, Manulife CAO, Halton Region Financial Niranjan Vivekanandan Karen Nasmith Regional Vice-President, Che Kothari Associate, Planning Alliance Greater Toronto Region, RBC Executive Director, Manifesto (ELN – Project Neutral Co- (DiverseCity Fellow, 2010) (DiverseCity Fellow, 2009) Chair) Shelley White Deena Ladd Olivia Nuamah CEO, United Way of Peel Coordinator, The Workers’ Executive Director, Atkinson Region Action Centre Charitable Foundation Mike Williams Sheldon Leiba Allan O’Dette General Manager, Economic President, Mississauga Board Director External Relations, Development and Culture, City of Trade Policy & National Private of Toronto Markets, GlaxoSmithKline Eva Ligeti Leslie Woo Executive Director, Clean Air Adaoma Patterson Vice President, Policy & Partnership (Greening Greater Specialist - Peel Poverty Planning, Metrolinx (Founding Toronto Co-Chair) Reduction Strategy Committee, ELN member) Region of Peel (DiverseCity Donna Lindell Fellow, 2010) Armine Yalnizyan (ELN Co-Chair) Senior Economist, Canadian Janice Price Centre for Policy Alternatives Bruce Macgregor CEO, Luminato CAO, York Region Mike Yorke Ian Proudfoot President, Local 27, Medhat Mahdy Vice President and Regional Carpenters’ Union President & CEO Publisher, York Region Media YMCA of Greater Toronto Group Danielle Zanotti CEO, United Way York Region Bruce McCuaig 6 CEO, Metrolinx

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Summary of recommendations &

selected civic actions to advance them & C i v ic A RECOMMENDATIONS

Readers are invited to add and build on these civic actions at www.civicaction.ca/ our-community. In addition to continuing DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project, Greening Greater Toronto and the Emerging Leaders Network, CivicAction will focus its efforts on Economy, Jobs & Income, Transportation and Immigration, as set out below, and support actions to advance other recommendations.

The Greater Toronto region has major commercial advantages, including its costs of doing business and advanced education levels, but the jobless rate is high at 8.5% and annual economic growth is projected to stagnate at 2% per year. Economy

Recommendations

1) CivicAction should consult and work with leaders and organizations playing significant ctions roles with respect to economic development in the region to determine how best to increase and leverage regional economic co-operation. 2) Enlist broad support to identify and promote the most promising industry areas. 3) Build a unique regional brand and ambassadors to promote it.

Civic Actions • CivicAction will collaborate with the Toronto Board of Trade and other leaders and organizations playing significant roles with respect to economic development in the region to determine how best to increase and leverage regional economic co-operation. • The Toronto Region Research Alliance is working with industry, government and research organizations to drive regional cluster research and promotion in several key areas.

The Greater Toronto region weathered the economic crisis better than many places, but many of our residents live in poverty (e.g., one in four in the City of Toronto, many of them visible minorities) and our training and employment programs haven’t responded to the changing world of work. Jobs & Income

Recommendations (full list and details on pages 16-19) 1) Governments must update and better coordinate policies and programs for labour market development and income assistance to reflect the new realities of work and living in low income. 2) Business has a clear interest in having a fully accessible and productive workforce and must play a bigger role in efforts to reduce poverty and improve regional labour force development. 3) A major awareness campaign is needed to inform the public about the profound impacts of recent changes in the labour market, poverty and income inequality in society.

Civic Actions • CivicAction and United Way Toronto will establish a business panel to respond to the Social Assistance Review Commission launched by the Province of Ontario and will help identify opportunities to increase awareness of labour market and poverty issues among business and the public. • The Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Taskforce is examining Canada’s support system for the unemployed to develop an Ontario proposal to modernize Employment Insurance.

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Metrolinx’s “The Big Move” regional transportation plan will attack our congestion- related commute times and illnesses by putting over 80% of Greater Toronto region residents within two kilometres of rapid transit. To ensure that these dramatic improvements to our transportation infrastructure are made, we need more vocal support from our region’s leaders and an “adult” conversation about how we will top up the Province’s $10 billion pledge and pay the $40 billion balance. Transportation

Recommendations 1) Governments should explore and commit to long-term funding tools designated for transit and transportation, including a federal-provincial funding agreement. 2) Leaders from every sector must help drive broad public support for the regional transportation plan and stimulate informed public discussion of financing tools. 3) Metrolinx, with support from its municipal and other partners, should create a significant and continuing public information campaign and consultations to engage public support and input.

Civic Actions • CivicAction will collaborate with the Toronto Board of Trade and other partners to support and inform Metrolinx’s communications efforts and broaden public and political support for implementing and funding the regional transportation plan.

The Greater Toronto region has been a magnet for new immigrants, who are key to our future prosperity, but the last decade has seen 17% fewer immigrants coming to the region and those who do come generally earn much less than those Canadian-born. Immigration

Recommendations 1) Our governments must work much better together to attract and settle immigrants and to provide adequate and predictable funding for essential settlement services. 2) Create a multi-sectoral mechanism to lift public dialogue and forge better public and private policy and programs on immigration, economics and citizenship in the city- region context. 3) Create a model for one-stop business development support centres for self-employed and entrepreneur newcomers that can be delivered regionally. 4) Create an independent annual summary of immigration related economic and social policy indicators.

Civic Actions • CivicAction will work with a range of service providers, business and government leaders to identify potential ways to improve coordination between all levels of government and to propel the public discourse on immigration. • CivicAction will convene leading researchers, organizations and individuals to explore opportunities for leveraging research and data on immigration, particularly as it relates to the social and economic health of the Greater Toronto region. • Maytree and the Metcalf Foundation have jointly commissioned a research study on immigrant self-employment and entrepreneurship to begin to inform thinking on related policies, programs and supports.

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region The region’s racial and cultural diversity is a strategic advantage – our residents collectively speak over 100 languages - but only 14% of our leaders (and less than 5% of large company boards and top executives) are visible minorities. Diversity

Recommendations 1) Continue CivicAction and Maytree’s DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project. 2) Educate and encourage investors to press corporate boards to set diversity targets and report publically on their progress. 3) Leverage procurement processes to advance diversity goals.

Civic Actions • Building on the success of DiverseCity initiatives to date, and with the renewed financial support of the Province of Ontario, CivicAction and Maytree have extended their DiverseCity Project until 2013. • The Canadian Board Diversity Council is working with board chairs and nominating committees to encourage more diversity on corporate boards. As a complement to that effort, the Council will execute an advertising campaign targeted at shareholders, governments, employees, media and consumers. • In partnership with the Canadian Board Diversity Council, Maytree’s Diversity in Governance Awards will continue to present a corporate award for excellence in diversity and governance. • Supplier diversity is being expanded by DiverseCity’s partner, the Diversity Business Network, and new industry-led projects including the Legal Leaders for Diversity Initiative (50 corporate general counsels who have pledged to promote diversity internally and through their legal services procurement).

The Greater Toronto region is breathing cleaner air, using less water and diverting more waste, but is struggling to manage commercial waste and stormwater, control sprawl and traffic congestion, and protect forests, wetlands, and the 63% of our native plant and animal species at risk. Environment

Recommendations 1) Develop a regional strategy to reduce and divert commercial waste. 2) Expand energy conservation programs to address electricity and gas use, and explore opportunities for district heating. 3) Reduce water consumption and improve stormwater and flood risk management by making the environmental and financial case for water consumers and municipalities. 4) Launch a multi-sectoral effort to green corporate and vacant lands.

Civic Actions • CivicAction has renewed the mandate of Greening Greater Toronto, which successfully launched the Race to Reduce office building energy efficiency challenge in May. • The City of Toronto and CivicAction are launching a regional multi-sectoral action group to help protect our residents, infrastructure and organizations from the risks associated with increasing extreme weather events, such as flooding. • CivicAction will meet with key waste supply chain stakeholders to explore the development of a regional strategy to reduce and divert commercial waste. • CivicAction will support the efforts of Credit Valley Conservation, Toronto and Region Conservation, Evergreen, Ontario Power Generation and other groups that are working with businesses and institutions to increase natural vegetation cover on corporate green spaces and vacant lands. • CivicAction will explore with municipalities ways to accelerate progress on reducing water consumption. 9 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Recent government stimulus programs put $500 million into Greater Toronto region housing, but other funding agreements have expired and almost 1 in 5 Greater Toronto region households struggle with finding and keeping an affordable home, with almost 90,000 people on two to 21-year social housing waiting lists. Housing

Recommendations 1) The federal government should create a national housing strategy. 2) The federal and Ontario governments should renew the government housing programs that expired in March 2011. [In July 2011, the federal government announced a new national Affordable Housing Framework for 2011-2014 including $1.4 billion in cost- shared funding. Housing funding for Ontario will be available once Canada and Ontario announce the signing of a bilateral agreement later this summer.] 3) Establish a multi-sector leadership group to develop a regional housing strategy. 4) Maintain and make the Toronto Regional Housing Data Bank a permanent resource.

Civic Actions • CivicAction will work with partners including the City of Toronto Affordable Housing Office and Social Housing Services Corporation to create a regional leadership group. • CivicAction will work with these and other partners including the new Regional Strategic Resource Centre (ReSRC) initiative at MaRS to identify a permanent home for the Regional Housing Data Bank.

The Greater Toronto region is celebrated for its many vibrant and unique neighbourhoods, but growing concentrations of poverty threaten the health and vitality of many – in 2006, 46% of low-income families lived in higher poverty neighbourhoods in Toronto, up from 18% two decades earlier. Neighbourhoods

Recommendations 1) Create more opportunities and places for residents to meet and engage in community development. 2) Develop innovative opportunities for private sector investment in under-invested neighbourhoods. 3) Develop and maintain a comprehensive neighbourhood revitalization and community building best practice case book and a virtual community research hub to facilitate knowledge exchange.

Civic Actions • CivicAction will help to bring business voices and models to neighbourhood development conversations being led by United Ways (UWs) and frontline organizations across the region. • The United Ways across the region continue to work with partners to engage neighbourhood residents in community building. Examples include: • Currently, UW Toronto is examining the concentration of poverty in high-rise towers and will work with partners to build on investments in resident engagement and neighbourhood revitalization. • Through its Strength Investment Fund, UW York Region will continue to identify and invest in new and promising collaborative community solutions. • UW of Peel Region, in partnership with the Mississauga Summit’s youth leadership and advisory councils, is creating opportunities for community members to lead change. • The Centre for City Ecology is developing tools to map neighbourhood level initiatives. This work could serve as the basis for a neighbourhood revitalization and community building best practice case book and virtual knowledge exchange. 10

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region The Greater Toronto region’s 8,500 arts and culture organizations and 150,000 staff generate about $9 billion for the region’s GDP, but lack an industry-wide voice and mechanisms to collaborate on common concerns like revenue and audience diversification, data collection and governance. Arts & Culture

Recommendations 1) Establish a steering committee comprised of representatives from a diverse range of arts organizations from across the region to move the sector towards greater collaboration and perhaps an enduring formal structure. 2) Establish an independent research and policy centre focused on issues affecting the arts and culture sector.

Civic Actions • CivicAction will work with Business for the Arts and other partners in creating a leadership group to advance sectoral collaboration and create a framework for the establishment of a cultural policy think tank to inform cultural industries and funders of evolving artistic approaches and global best practices relating to creating, sustaining and disseminating arts products and services. • In May 2011, unanimously endorsed the recommendations of the “Creative Capital Gains” Action Plan for Toronto, recognizing the economic case for investing in the arts and the City’s important leadership role in promoting this sector regionally and internationally.

The 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games provide an incredible chance to engage youth in building their communities. The challenge is for all of the players involved to identify and leverage opportunities for youth activity and leadership. Pan/Parapan Am Games & Youth

Recommendations 1) Build awareness and buy-in through a multi-faceted public information and engagement campaign that includes the voices of youth and engages them through existing networks and organizations. 2) Provide youth with access to sport, leadership development, influence, and jobs, apprenticeships and volunteer roles; set clear measurable targets.

Civic Actions • The Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games, with support from CivicAction and a range of organizations, will use the unique opportunity presented by the Games to highlight the power of youth leadership through a series of both professional and voluntary engagement opportunities.

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region P roceedings

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region ECONOMY

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The recession was an important call Figure 1: Productivity to action to maintain and enhance the GDP per worker ($000s CAD, 2004) Greater Toronto region’s competitiveness, economic prosperity and quality of life. US cities (23) Consultations with regional business Toronto CMA and other leaders surfaced eight major Australia, New Zealand (3) economic concerns, three of which Global average (78) were prioritized for deeper investigation 1 at the Summit: regional economic Canadian cities (3) co-operation; cluster building; and Europe (35) better leveraging our immigrant talent Middle East, Asia Latin America (14) advantage (the last is discussed on pages 23-25). 1. Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver Note: Labour productivity defined as GDP per worker, not GDP per hour worked; currency Challenges converted at PPP. Our region weathered the recession Source: The Boston Consulting Group, based on better than most, but the nascent data from the Institute for Competitiveness & recovery is leaving many people behind. Prosperity. We face significant economic challenges, unfamiliar new markets and other Lack of regional economic co-operation: concerns, including the following: Most people, businesses, potential investors and visitors assess our offerings • our jobless rate is above the national and challenges as a region – from average at 8.5% (as of March 2011), education to quality of life to with consumer bankruptcies and transportation to immigrant integration social assistance dependency rising to tourism. Despite this, much of our (especially for immigrants);2 economic development is municipality- • projections suggest a long period of specific. Understandably, municipalities low economic growth, with rates of compete for non-residential developments 2% per year.3 to generate new property tax revenue, but • cities such as São Paulo, Shanghai their economic development efforts are and Mumbai will have growth generally localized and fragmented, and rates more than double ours and often duplicative. Efforts to co-operate 5 increasingly compete for investment, regionally have not always enjoyed cross- businesses and talent; sectoral support or high profile champions • our GDP per capita, productivity and to drive well-defined common objectives. productivity growth significantly lag As a result, our regional leaders have behind American cities (Figure 1); been constrained, unable to effectively and discuss and advocate on the most • we lag in our ability to innovate; important issues that affect our our venture capital investment and economy. patent registrations fall behind most North American centres.4 Not fully leveraging our networks and industry strengths: The lack of regional Marketing and economic growth of the economic co-operation also impedes the Greater Toronto region are also inhibited development of a strategy to agree on by the following: and leverage our key clusters to promote 13 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region the region and our most promising • third largest centre for film and industries. There are other obstacles to television production in the world; this as well: and • the region also excels in advanced • early stage businesses in some of technologies, ranking third in North our most promising sectors often America for biotechnology as well as have trouble accessing capital, for information and communications particularly in the crucial $500,000 technology.6 to $2 million range; this drives them to more welcoming funders in Boston These strengths provide the foundation and other city regions; for building clusters that we can expand • insufficient attention has been paid and market internationally, with two to attracting and retaining talent in nascent initiatives doing just that: the areas like high-tech and clean-tech Toronto Financial Services Alliance development, biomedical research, and the Ontario Bioscience Industry and financial management and Organization. These are all promising investment banking; and steps towards developing a • we have yet to fully leverage our diversity and all of the talents, Figure 2: 2009 Quality of life ranking networks and resources it brings. index; Toronto vs. major Canadian & U.S. cities Cluster-based approaches to economic 107 growth are increasingly being acknowledged as a key way for regions to compete for investors, customers and talent in global markets. Singapore, Kitchener-Waterloo, Boston and North Carolina’s Research Triangle have all used clustering strategies to successfully generate growth, innovation and commercialization in targeted sectors. They are creating a legacy of advanced knowledge, increased productivity and efficiency, and research facilities.

Strengths Leaders from all sectors increasingly Note: Base city New York = 100. recognize that our lack of co-ordination Source: The Boston Consulting Group, based on data from the Toronto Region Research Alliance, and a unifying regional vision and brand Mercer 2009. is hurting us in the global competition for talent, investment and tourism, but that we also have several unique strengths Figure 3: Foreign Born Population as % that have propelled our economic growth of Total over the last decade, such as:

• a high quality of life (Figure 2); • low costs of doing business; • an extremely diverse and growing population (we are the most “global” city in the world (Figure 3)); and • advanced education.

The region also enjoys a diverse economy with several successful and expanding sectors:

• third-largest financial services centre in North America; Note: Figures shown for Toronto CMA, foreign born • the TSX is the world’s seventh largest population in 2006 for Canada, 2005 for U.S. Source: The Boston Consulting Group, based on stock exchange and the leading stock data from Statistics Canada, Australian Bureau of 14 exchange for clean-tech companies; Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau. CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region comprehensive strategy to identify, build and other conditions necessary for new and support clusters in the Greater businesses and clusters to succeed, Toronto region. governments would need to be involved. However, government wasn’t seen as the OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS appropriate driver of these consultations.

1. Consult and work with leaders and Based on innovation, growth potential, organizations playing significant roles global demand and local institutional and with respect to economic development research support, six possible areas for in the region to determine how best to initial focus stand out: increase and leverage regional economic co-operation. • biomedical, biotech and life sciences; The Summit saw widespread support • information and communications for enhancing regional economic co- technology (ICT); operation, but little consensus on how • financial services; to do this. Pre-Summit consultations • clean tech; suggested creating a regional investment • renewable energy; and promotion agency to build and market • advanced manufacturing. the region’s brand, and a regional multi-sectoral economic co-operation Horizontal innovation clusters, such council to develop a regional economic as ICT, that are common to multiple development strategy. The Summit industries and can advance additional concluded that creating new entities priorities such as immigrant integration, would be premature and possibly not sustainability and social innovation, the most efficient use of resources: should also be considered. there was a strong preference for trying to repurpose existing resources and These cross-sectoral consultations would institutions before committing to new consider how to encourage clusters from ones. the bottom – from rounding out our “venture eco-system” to expand seed Instead, the Summit recommended funding, smart capital, and incubators to engaging leaders from all sectors to cultivate entrepreneurialism and develop a shared vision of regional risk-taking. They would also determine economic co-operation and to determine how to drive clusters from the top, for how success could be measured and, example, by attracting large perhaps most importantly, how to get all multinationals to base their headquarters of the necessary players to co-operate. It in the region, increasing large scale was suggested that these conversations investment and domestic markets. be convened by a neutral organizer like CivicAction and involve governments, 3. Build a unique regional brand and business, chambers of commerce, ambassadors to promote it. labour, youth and others contributing Summit delegates suggested that we to the broad spectrum of economic develop a unique regional brand that development. every private, public and non-profit organization can rally around. While 2. Enlist broad support to identify and other regions may share our cluster promote the most promising industry areas, none can match our cultural areas. diversity. Just as the VQA has elevated The Summit saw strong support the profile (and sales) of Ontario wines, for targeting key sectors for cluster a Greater Toronto regional brand would promotion in the Greater Toronto region. highlight the region’s unique value To generate broad buy-in and awareness, proposition and facilitate the job of the Summit recommended identifying potential ambassadors. clusters through consultations going beyond the private sector to include post- See the related backgrounders, Towards a New Model for Economic Co-operation Across the Toronto secondary institutions, the advanced Region, and Economic Cluster Strategy for the Toronto research and non-profit communities, Region: Matching Capital to Innovation, prepared and cultural and other opinion leaders. for the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 at: www. Given their central role in creating the civicaction.ca/publications financing, educational, quality of life 15

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region The Greater Toronto region is the These trends, coupled with the rising economic engine of Canada and its costs of living in the region, have made it success depends as much on people as it more difficult for many to earn a liveable does on business development strategies. income. In 2008, the most recent year The region weathered the recession for which figures are available, 10.3% of comparatively well, but the recovery is Greater Toronto region residents lived in 7 still leaving many behind. To ensure that poverty, compared to 9.2% for the rest of our residents achieve their potential, the Ontario. The Greater Toronto region makes hundreds of people involved in pre-Summit up 42.8% of Ontario’s population, but has 10 working groups, roundtables, and Summit 48% of those living in poverty. Poverty is breakout discussions came to the same most acute in the City of Toronto, where conclusion: we need to better align our as many as one in four residents (25%) income security, employment services and fall below the Low Income Cut-Off line.11 workforce development systems to foster success and provide opportunities for all. The face of poverty has also become increasingly racialized. In the Greater

JOBS & INCOME Challenges Toronto region, 19.5% of people from 12 Currently, there is a serious disconnection racialized groups live in poverty. In between the supply and demand sides of Ontario, though racialized groups account our labour market: many employers lack for roughly 26% of the population, they skilled workers, while post-secondary represent 41% of those in low-income graduates often have difficulty establishing households,13 experience higher levels of careers and highly educated newcomers unemployment and earn less than the rest resort to working low paying survival jobs. of Canadians.14 Additional challenges face racialized8 Figure 1: Distribution of Jobs by Skill/ groups and youth attempting to access Sector Categories; Toronto and the Rest the labour market. A number of factors of Ontario, 2006 exacerbate this disconnection:

• the continuing shift from manufacturing to a service and knowledge-based economy: job growth is primarily in highly paid and entry- level jobs, polarizing incomes and increasing inequality across the region (Figure 1); • full-time employment and job security are being replaced by precarious work and just-in-time hiring; • as baby-boomers retire, net labour force growth will depend predominantly on immigrants, many of whom are not being well-integrated into the labour market; and Note: Size of boxes to scale, for comparison’s sake. • despite our dynamism, we trail behind Source: Zizys, Tom. “An Economy Out of Shape: other major cities in productivity Changing the Hourglass.” Toronto Workforce 16 growth and workplace training.9 Innovation Group. 1 Apr. 2010. CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Canada’s “social safety net,” designed to reflect the new realities of increasing in the mid-1960s to support Canadians low-wage, part-time and precarious through hardship, is no longer achieving contract work. We should help people its stated objective, as the assumptions it escape poverty and contribute to society, was based on no longer hold true: and avoid trapping them on welfare. Three areas that warrant immediate action are: • a full-time job no longer guarantees an adult a decent living; a) Increase asset limits: People receiving • growing numbers of people work in social assistance should be allowed to part-time and precarious positions; keep small windfalls and protect some and savings to avoid destitution and welfare • most working-age adults who might dependence. At present, a single not have worked in the past, such person applying for Ontario Works as lone parents and people with assistance must have no more than disabilities, increasingly can and want $592 in assets.15 This makes it hard to to be part of the labour force. fund a job search, let alone meet their living needs. Summit consultations Without changes, those who lose their supported calls for an increase in livelihoods will continue to face serious asset limits to $5,000 for single people challenges trying to find new jobs and and $10,000 for families (including rebuild their lives, let alone play Registered Retirement Savings Plans meaningful and active roles in our society. and Tax Free Savings Accounts).

Strengths b) Delink housing and drug and dental The Greater Toronto region has a diverse benefits from social assistance: These and dynamic economy, the preservation of often-crucial benefits are available only which should, along with our commitment to people receiving social assistance. to Canadian social values of equality and Losing them when one rejoins the inclusion, motivate us to proactively workforce, especially if taking a low- address labour market and income paying job without benefits, can be security issues. devastating. They could be delinked by creating a new portable housing benefit OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS and providing drug and dental benefits on a needs basis by better coordinating 1. All levels of government should act the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan, the decisively and urgently to better align Trillium Drug program, the Children in and coordinate policies and programs for Need of Treatment program and other labour market development and income initiatives. supports. The Summit highlighted the need for c) Coordinate provincial programs with governments to map and better the Working Income Tax Benefit coordinate income supports and social (WITB) to better help people assistance systems with other social transitioning from welfare to work: policy areas such as labour force The federal WITB provides low-income development, Employment Insurance (EI), people in or rejoining the workforce with and programs to help meet the needs of a refundable tax credit that phases out longer-term unemployed Canadians. The as their income increases. The Province work of the Mowat Centre Employment of Ontario has yet to fully leverage the Insurance Taskforce and Ontario’s new WITB and should join Quebec, Nunavut Social Assistance Review Commission will and British Columbia in coordinating contribute to better alignment and co- its own social assistance programs with ordination. the WITB.

2. The Province of Ontario should further 3. Establish a business panel to engage modernize its income support and social with and respond to Ontario’s Social assistance systems to assist people Assistance Review Commission and who are at the low end of the income to identify opportunities to increase spectrum and labour market, help buffer business and public awareness of labour periods of unemployment and provide market and poverty issues. baseline income for the most vulnerable. Given the private sector’s interest in These systems must be further updated having a fully accessible and productive 17 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region workforce, the Summit called on business a) Changing hiring and employment to play a bigger role in offering its practices to reduce precarious working perspective and support efforts to reduce arrangements: Some companies are poverty and improve regional labour already proving that good employment force development as well as income practices do not necessarily support and social assistance systems. compromise profits. Businesses could Past experience has shown that, unless work together to identify ways to business is informed and engaged, it is reverse the trend towards precarious, hard to make progress on addressing part-time and just-in-time hiring and these issues. develop alternate and more stabilizing employment practices that could be 4. The Ontario government, business adopted in a range of industries and and labour need to work together to business settings. increase the effectiveness of employment standards and regulations in order to b) Providing benefits and other ensure workplace fairness and security. supplements at a low cost to self- With 37% of our workforce now in part- employed workers: Affordable products time, contract or self-employed jobs,16 and services to buffer the risks of we need to ensure that decent wages, self-employment could bring distinct benefits, working conditions and job benefits to individual workers and their security are not just available to those in families, especially for low-income traditional full-time jobs. The provincial earners. Pooled health insurance to government should review and update protect people from destitution in times the Employment Standards Act and other of ill health and low-cost personal labour laws, regulations and employment pension products that maximize the benefits. Employers can play their part by benefits of saving for retirement are extending standards to all forms of work two areas that could be explored. and collaborating to identify and promote best practices and greater compliance. c) Increasing access to high quality, affordable early learning and child 5. Create business leadership groups care to allow parents at all income to devise actions that will address levels to work: Businesses should challenges posed by the changing consider the opportunity to invest in structure of the labour market as their employees by establishing early they relate to employment practices, learning and child care supports. There including skill mismatches, the growth of is a strong business case for such precarious work and declining benefits. investments: improved recruitment and Employment practices like just-in-time retention of employees; reductions in hiring and the use of contract, part- absenteeism; increased productivity; time and temporary workers are on the and, overall improvements in employee rise. While there may be immediate cost wellness, morale and loyalty.17 In benefits of such practices for businesses, cases where organizations are too we cannot ignore their negative impact on small to implement this independently, employees (and by extension, employers) they could explore pooling resources over the longer term. Many believe that or establish programs that support it is possible for companies to invest employees in finding high quality, in their workforces and adopt better, affordable child care. people-centred employment practices while still turning a healthy profit. 6. Improve the design and effectiveness Summit consultations called for more of and access to training and demonstrable business leadership around employment support programs. employment practices to set an example Government should take a more active for other employers. One idea which stood leadership role in the development of out was to establish business leadership training programs to ensure they achieve groups that could deliberate on specific and sustain good results. Programs issues, identify areas for collaboration, should be supported with up-to-date develop and test potential common labour market data and designed to solutions and promote their adoption provide individuals with the relevant skills by the wider business community. Such necessary to access meaningful work and groups could investigate a variety of issue a livable income. Particular attention to 18 areas including: training for those receiving EI or social CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region assistance, as well as racialized groups, (TRIEC), Partnership to Advance Youth newcomers and youth, will offer much Employment, Job Opportunity Information needed support to working-age adults Network, a disability network, or others at the low end of the labour market. can be built upon to tackle this complex The government could also increase question. Among other things, workforce accountability and learning by improving intermediaries will be well placed to data collection and measurement of advocate that government and business training results. reduce specific employment barriers for racialized groups, newcomers and Businesses, too, can take greater youth and create a regional dialogue leadership by making more investments to better understand and improve the in training their workforces. Among OECD effectiveness of programs aimed at nations, Canada is ranked 14th for its reducing poverty within these groups. level of employer investment in workplace To date, efforts to address barriers to training.18 At the same time, employers these groups accessing employment have are reporting that individuals are entering been hindered by both a lack of data the workforce with inadequate “soft skills” and limited government willingness to including communication and problem- facilitate public access to the data that is solving needed on the job.19 Increasingly, available. We should encourage the federal employees are unable to meet the needs government to increase public access to of employers, compromising income, labour force data disaggregated by specific productivity, career advancement and demographic groups, including racialized overall economic well-being. There is groups, newcomers and youth. therefore a clear need for training that supports personal and professional 8. Devise and deliver an information growth and provides employees with campaign to increase awareness about access to decent career paths. the profound impacts of recent changes in the labour market, poverty and income 7. Conduct more research on and inequality in society. consider developing a regional workforce There is widespread misunderstanding planning partnership to help address about the experiences of those living skills mismatches between labour market in poverty and on social assistance. To needs and labour force supply. challenge pervasive stigmas and foster An investigation into the viability of dialogue, there is an urgent need for a a partnership between governments, wide-ranging communication strategy employers, non-profit organizations and or public education campaign. Raising educators is an important step towards awareness would cut through the clutter addressing the skills mismatch and the of the income and social assistance just-in-time hiring practices that have systems and change the negative and characterized our labour market over the blaming tone of public dialogue on past decade. Properly resourced, such these issues. One suggestion was the a partnership could serve a number of creation of a “users’ guide” to illustrate purposes including: provide a regional the complexity of the system and help forum for co-ordination among sector make the case for change to a wide councils; identify workforce talent gaps; range of audiences. By fostering a better work with employers to forecast key skills understanding of the realities of those on to help ensure post-secondary educational social assistance, we can build a wider programs match employers’ needs; and, coalition of public support for the creation analyze workforce to career pathways. of a modern income and social assistance system. While past government-led attempts at workforce planning have yielded limited See the related backgrounders, Income Security: results, the prospects for success would Collective Responses for a Prosperous Toronto Region and People and Prosperity: Planning for a New World of be improved by starting with a facilitated Work, prepared for the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 dialogue among the stakeholders to first at: www.civicaction.ca/publications understand the value each can contribute.

It will also be important to consider whether existing population-specific intermediaries such as the Toronto Regional Immigrant Employment Council 19 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region There is no way to sugar-coat our backs up their frustrations: transportation crisis. If we do not invest • since 1990, the growth in demand in long-term, comprehensive regional for roads and transit in the Greater transportation and transit improvements Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) shortly, the quality of life for residents of has been about double the growth of the Greater Toronto region, as well as our supply22 (Figure 1); economic prosperity, will be in serious • the performance of the region’s jeopardy: costs of congestion will soar transportation system has from $6 billion to $15 billion per year by deteriorated noticeably in the last 20 2030;20 smog will contribute to tens of years – the Greater Toronto region thousands of premature deaths;21 and now has the longest commute times we will see worsening social outcomes of any city region in North America;23 for people who are aging, live with low and incomes, or live in areas underserved by • these negative trends in transit. This future is barrelling towards transportation performance are us like a freight train. accelerating,24 going from bad to worse at an increasing rate (Figure Challenges 2). Few people have not confronted the traffic jams, crowded subways and lack The GTHA’s population is poised to

TRANSPORTATION of active transit options that characterize increase 49.5% by 2036,25 so these our transportation system, and the data trends and costs will only accelerate.

Strengths Figure 1: 1986-2006 GTHA Transportation Demand and Supply Trends* In 2008, Metrolinx, the provincial agency charged with coordinating GTHA transportation planning and delivery, unveiled The Big Move. This regional plan will create a comprehensive rapid transit network to put over 80% of

Figure 2: 1986-2006 Transportation Performance Trends*

1986 2001 2006

*The data points are graphed for 1986, 2001 and 2006 only, to show changes in net trends before and after 2001. Travel fluctuations between these points are not shown; for example, transit supply in seat- km increased in the years following 1986 but then declined to 2001, showing a negligible net gain over the 15-year period. Similarly, road travel demand 1986 2001 2006 has fluctuated above and below the trend lines, *As noted for Figure 1, trend fluctuations between reflecting economic conditions (with a downward the three data points are not shown, in order to fluctuation in 2008/9 for example), but the overall emphasize the changes in the overall net trend trend continues to climb. lines before and after 2001. Source: IBI Group, based on Transportation 20 Source: IBI Group, based on Transportation Tomorrow data and GTHA road/transit data sources. Tomorrow data and model runs. CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region GTHA residents within two kilometres of the need to implement The Big Move of rapid transit and make region-wide and to identify and galvanize support for improvements to roads, highways and an acceptable mix of sustainable sources pedestrian and cycling facilities.26 to fund its implementation. Unanimously approved by Metrolinx’s Board of Directors (then made up of OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS GTHA mayors and regional chairs), the plan promises to decrease average 1. Governments should explore and commute times and tailpipe emissions, commit to long-term funding tools integrate transit fares, triple the length designated for transit and transportation, of rapid transit lines and introduce including a federal-provincial funding leading edge information systems to agreement. inform travel choices. Canada is the only OECD country without a long-term national plan for transit and The Big Move is a living plan, built to flex transportation. Summit participants and evolve as circumstances change, called for a federal-provincial strategy without sacrificing its original objectives and long-term funding designated for and costs. In the spring of 2011, the transit and transportation. Recognizing plan was altered to accommodate the government’s fiscal constraints, they changed City of Toronto transit priorities suggested a diverse portfolio of funding but, even so, retains key regional projects sources, but agreed that the federal (several of which are already underway), government should make a long-term including the Eglinton-Scarborough commitment of $1-2 billion per year Crosstown. The Province has committed designated to help fund GTHA transit to pay just over $10 billion of the plan’s and transportation. projected $50 billion capital cost (in 2008 dollars), but we are short $40 CivicAction has identified 12 potential billion to keep the plan on track. funding sources27 for consideration. Political and government leaders should The Summit issued a strong call for join in the growing debate about these federal, provincial and municipal and other potential funding sources governments to resolve their political and help drive the discussion towards and jurisdictional challenges and work a consensus that Metrolinx can rely on with Metrolinx to implement the regional when creating its long-term investment transportation plan in a holistic way strategy, due in June 2013. Our that will serve the interests of the consultations suggest that people are entire region. Better political and public open to considering new funding options, dialogue is needed to broaden awareness but need to be informed about each

Figure 3: Potential sources for additional GTHA transit/transportation funding

Source: Irwin, N. & Bevan, A. (July 2010). Time To Get Serious: Reliable Funding Sources for GTHA 21 Transit/Transportation Infrastructure. Prepared for CivicAction. CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region option’s likely effectiveness and impacts; decision makers working to advance the the options that seem the least popular regional transportation plan and give are those that are least understood28 Metrolinx another source of innovative (Figure 3). Summit participants suggested thinking on everything from effective that residents will consider paying more communications to new financing tools. through one or more of these options if the funds are earmarked for transit and 3. Metrolinx, with support from its transportation and the overall funding municipal and other partners, should burden is shared equitably. create a significant and continuing public information campaign and 2. Leaders from every sector must consultations to engage public support help drive broad public support for and input. the regional transportation plan and There won’t be broad support for stimulate informed public discussion of implementing the regional transportation financing tools. plan, let alone funding it, until GTHA Metrolinx may be the logical driver residents appreciate how much it will of a mass public information and benefit them individually and what consultation campaign, but business, their role is in bringing about the labour, academic and non-profit leaders improvements. Metrolinx and its partners must support it by making clear should bring the plan to life through the that improving regional transit and media and ongoing regional and targeted transportation is crucial to the success information campaigns, painting a of their people and organizations. picture of the planned improvements Strong, informed and committed multi- and responding to the question ‘what’s in sector leadership will bolster public it for me’ when it profiles the benefits.

The Summit suggested that Metrolinx An informed public can help planners promote a ‘region-building transit and decision makers as they evaluate brand’ to engage influential city- transportation plans. Summit builders, employers and other participants suggested that past audiences and to create a sense of transportation planning has lacked collective ownership of the regional transparency, accountability and plan, highlighting how it will bring credibility. Metrolinx could avoid this by about the following: presenting the region with: its long-term strategic plan, presented in writing and a) Economic benefits: Outline the visually; an assured statement of upfront benefits for each demographic. and projected costs; annual reporting For example, business owners will mechanisms; comprehensible metrics gain more cost-effective transfers for evaluation; and an open discussion of of goods and improved employee taxpayer return-on-investment. mobility, while seniors will have easier access to rapid transit. Metrolinx and its partners must facilitate b) Regional connectivity: People will ongoing forums to inform, receive and have expanded and faster options respond to feedback from residents, to move between their homes, workers, employers and travelers as the jobs, schools and other pursuits in an transportation plan is implemented. integrated regional system. Informing and listening to the public will c) Social concerns: Safer, more also make it easier to engage people in a reliable transportation, better productive debate about funding options. quality of life and more equitable The United Kingdom’s Transport for access are unifying themes that London and the Utah Transportation most drivers, transit riders, Authority are but two examples of how to residents, pedestrians or cyclists successfully generate public awareness will appreciate. and public support for tough funding d) Environment quality: Implementing decisions. the plan will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and other See the related backgrounder, Keeping on Track: A Reality Check, prepared for the Greater Toronto pollutants, helping to reduce global Summit 2011 at: www.civicaction.ca/publications warming and improve public health. 22

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region IMMIGRATION

Canada receives approximately 250,000 of immigrants falling further behind32 immigrants annually, with the majority (Figure 2). choosing to settle in the Greater Toronto region, where almost half of Immigrant entrepreneurs can play the population is foreign born. With a an important role in economic highly educated and diverse population, development. In the United States, region’s labour pool is an important 40% of publicly traded venture-backed asset and a crucial contributor to our companies operating in high-tech prosperity. As our population ages, we manufacturing today were started by will continue to rely on immigration as immigrants.33 Many immigrants in the a key source of talent to maintain our Greater Toronto region and the rest of workforce and ensure economic growth. Canada are turning to entrepreneurship or self-employment and earning Challenges higher incomes than their employed Despite our need for immigration and for counterparts34 but lack supports to bring newcomers to be productively engaged their ventures to scale. in the economy, evidence continues to show that we underutilize the human The gap between the labour market capital of immigrants. The point system outcomes of immigrants and those means that prospective immigrants of Canadian-born people generates are selected based on criteria such as significant economic and social costs education and language skills, yet many and threatens our social cohesion. As we recent immigrants are unable to obtain compete with other city regions across jobs that match their foreign experience Canada and internationally for talent, we and education. must reduce barriers to employment, support entrepreneurs and facilitate the Although 53.1% of immigrants living in full social and economic integration of the Greater Toronto region who arrived newcomers. since 2001 had a university certificate, diploma, or degree (compared to Figure 1: Unemployment rate of 25-54 33.6% of region residents born in year olds by immigrant status, Toronto Canada),29 immigrants face much CMA, 2006-2011 higher unemployment rates – a gap that widened during the recession – and earn less. In March 2011, the unemployment rate of Canadian-born people in the Greater Toronto region was 5.4%, compared to 9.6% for immigrants, and even worse for recent immigrants arriving in the last five years: 14.2%30 (Figure 1). Between 2001 and 2006, university educated Canadian- born workers earned $61,904.40 on Canadian-born Immigrants average while immigrants with similar Source: Toronto Immigrant Data Employment educational attainment earned only Initiative (TIEDI), March 2011 Labour Force Update, $20,143.70.31 These troubling trends http://www.yorku.ca/tiedi/doc/lfs201103.pdf are worsening, with more recent cohorts 23 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Strengths OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS With more of the world’s economic growth shifting to emerging markets, 1. Our governments must work much immigrants from those markets better together to attract and settle settling and working in Toronto will be immigrants and to provide adequate an increasingly important asset. The and predictable funding for essential diverse language skills, international settlement services. experience, access to and understanding Reflecting our current constitutional of international markets that newcomers arrangement, the federal government bring enrich our region’s human capital must take more leadership in order and differentiate us from our global to foster a truly national and well competitors. While Toronto surpasses coordinated immigration strategy. most city regions in integrating large Its goals should be to help eliminate numbers of newcomers, there remain siloed policies and programs, improve international collaboration, and establish clarity for the nation’s economic goals “The big challenge that Canada faces and the role and value of immigration in and communities around Canada face achieving them. But a call for more shared authority and is around talent: how to get it, how to decision-making was also evident in our Summit discussions. Empowering retain it and how to make use of it in a provincial and municipal governments to fuller sense.” play a bigger role, not just in settlement policies and programs but also in - Fred Morley, The Greater Halifax Partnership defining and setting the priorities for immigration attraction and selection to significant opportunities to help help meet the region’s specific economic newcomers realize their full potential. needs, will be critical in the new global economy. As a starting point, the federal The Greater Toronto region is still and provincial governments should the top destination for newcomers in create an appropriate instrument to Canada. However, we are losing out to ensure adequate and predicable funding other city regions in Canada: there has of essential settlement services and to been a 17% decrease in the number of enable effective input on selection policy. immigrants choosing to settle here over the last decade.35 We need to take action to reverse this trend now.

Figure 2: Earnings of Male Immigrants by Number of Years in Canada Relative to Canadian-Born Citizens

Approx. ! earnings of immigrants Approximateas earningsproportion of immigrantsof those of as proportionCanadian- Born of those of citizens Immigrant arrival Canadian-(log year bornearnings citizens 1975– (log earningsratio) 198079– ratio) 198584– ! 199089– 199594– 2000–9904

Years in CanadaYears in 1. Full-time, full-year workers aged 16–64

Note: Full-time, full-yearSource: workers Statistics aged Canada, 16-64 Censuses of population Canada Source: The Boston Consulting Group, based on data from the 2006 Census, Statistics Canada.

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region 2. Create a multi-sector mechanism entrepreneurial newcomers are not being to lift public dialogue and forge better adequately addressed, to the detriment public and private policy and programs of our economy. The time is right to on immigration, economics and establish a range of services, including: citizenship in the city-region context. business development and incubation; Summit discussions called for non- legal supports; mentoring, connecting political leadership to convene multiple and network building; and, facilitating stakeholders to craft and execute a access to capital. Ideally, these services holistic regional immigration vision and should be delivered regionally, potentially strategy. The vision would articulate through a one-stop-shop model. the value proposition for immigration – economic, social and cultural – and Access to capital is particularly how selection policies, funding levels, challenging for many newcomers wishing program delivery and evaluation need to to establish start-ups. In addition to be shaped to ensure that immigration a regional one-stop business support works for immigrants and for the service, innovative funding options Greater Toronto region. Any strategy need to be developed. A tax credit will need to recognize and work to for private or non-profit investors to resolve the differences and tensions fund newcomer start-ups could help between economic and social goals encourage investment, while a more for immigration, foster an approach to complex but higher impact solution newcomer integration that balances would be to establish an administered economic growth with social inclusion venture capital fund targeting immigrant and well-being, and promote mutual business start-ups. responsibilities – and benefits – for newcomer and Canadian-born residents 4. Create an independent annual alike. summary of immigration related economic and social policy indicators. There are currently some processes Our universities abound with excellent underway to improve the quality of, researchers and specialist research and fill gaps in, immigrant services, centres focused on immigration related including the new Local Immigration issues and community organizations Partnerships. These need to continue serving immigrants also produce useful but must take a much more deliberate data and materials. But access to and strategic approach that identifies these stores of knowledge is limited barriers to be addressed, including for the average person, business and time limited access and eligibility for community organization, and, where services, and is effectively evaluated. available, the research is not presented The development of a common for non-specialist audiences. More needs vision and coordinated strategy for to be done to aggregate and make immigration in the region would bring information easily and readily accessible significant benefits to this work. for a wide variety of audiences and through engaging interfaces. An annual 3. Create a model for one-stop business summary could foster more public development support centres for accountability on how our immigration self-employed and entrepreneurial dollars are spent and the outcomes the newcomers that can be delivered investments yield. It could also highlight regionally. key data to help communicate the value At a more practical level, a new frontier of immigration, such as the number of for newcomer economic integration patents filed by newcomers and small involves devising and delivering business business success, and bring together an development and support services accessible set of key indicators on social for self-employed and entrepreneurial integration and mobility that can be newcomers. Many initiatives to easily tracked and measured over time. help immigrants find their way into employment are already running See the related backgrounder, Our Greatest successful programs, like TRIEC and Strength, Our Biggest Challenge: Immigration and Economic Growth, prepared for the Greater Toronto DiversityWorks. These need to be Summit 2011 at: www.civicaction.ca/publications continued across the Greater Toronto region and expanded, because, at present, the needs of self-employed or 25 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region The Greater Toronto region is known these businesses often have tremendous globally for its unmatched ethnic, expertise and networks that larger racial and cultural diversity. With companies may cultivate for future a population that speaks over 100 opportunities, locally and globally. languages, traces its origins to almost Furthermore, by 2031, visible minorities all parts of the world, and maintains will comprise 63% of the Toronto census 38

DI V ERSITY ties with multiple external markets, our population, becoming the visible diversity is one of our greatest assets. majority and a key market. Having marketplaces, workforces, and leadership that include individuals from Strengths diverse backgrounds allows us to draw In 2008, CivicAction and Maytree on new ideas, expertise, capabilities, created DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto and the connections that stem from Leadership Project. It responded to a different perspectives and experiences. call at CivicAction’s 2007 Summit for a strategy to diversify the leadership To fully benefit from this diversity, of the Greater Toronto region to better however, we need it reflected at our reflect the racial and ethnic diversity leadership and decision-making tables. of our population. DiverseCity’s eight Currently, only 14.5% of Greater Toronto initiatives are helping diverse, under- Area (GTA) leaders are visible minorities, capitalized leaders to emerge, leveraging even though 49.5% of the population their leadership so that the region is identifies as visible minority.36 Progress better-positioned to recruit and mobilize is being made in the public and non- the best talent, gain access to new profit sectors and we must now also markets and networks, innovate, and leverage the opportunities to diversify inspire future generations of leadership. corporate leadership and supply chains. In short, to accelerate prosperity.

Challenges Opening access to networks and building Many corporations, organizations and new relationships can strengthen individuals are striving to obtain the institutions and have a transformative benefits of diversity in leadership, but impact. Since 2008, DiverseCity has: progress has been patchy. A 2011 study by Ryerson University for DiverseCity: • facilitated more than 570 The Greater Toronto Leadership Project appointments to public and non- found that, among the largest GTA-based profit boards; companies, only 2.8% (down from 3.3% • trained more than 100 candidates in 2010) of board directors and 5.3% and campaign managers for of top executives were visible minorities. municipal elections; Almost 75% had no visible minorities • identified 300 diverse spokespeople, among their top executives and nearly resulting in 600+ media stories; 80% had no visible minorities on their • connected more than 600 corporate boards.37 executives from 75+ organizations; • equipped 75 city-builders from In addition, small and minority-led across the GTA to address social and businesses have a hard time cracking economic challenges; and the supply chains of large companies. • prepared 50 regional trainers to run 26 This is a missed opportunity, since leadership dialogues. CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region This award-winning collaborative These organizations can also help to initiative, which has engaged hundreds bridge better connections between board of organizations and companies, nominating committees and experienced is making the benefits of diverse and talented visible minority leaders leadership better known across the by supplying lists of exceptional senior region, but there is more to be done. executives from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds who have the capacity and OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS desire to serve on corporate boards.

1. Continue CivicAction and Maytree’s 3. Leverage procurement processes to DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto advance diversity goals. Leadership Project. When TO2015 introduced the first- Summit delegates noted the ever Pan/Parapan Am Games diversity accomplishments of DiverseCity and procurement policy, it received other diversity-focused initiatives in the acclaim and highlighted the gains that Greater Toronto region and encouraged American and European companies their continuation and expansion. have made from diversifying their They emphasized the need to advance supply chain processes. Canadian and promote the business case for corporations should follow suit by leadership diversity in the corporate embedding diversity criteria in their sector and the ways in which this can supplier selection processes, such be achieved. Continuing to build the fact as asking whether suppliers track base linking diversity and performance board and executive diversity and have and creating a circle of informed diversity policies or programs in place. business champions for leadership For example, RBC included a focus diversity were two options suggested at on supplier diversity among its top the Summit. priorities in its 2009-2011 Diversity Blueprint.42 When proposals are 2. Educate and encourage investors to submitted to RBC, suppliers are asked press corporate boards to set diversity to include information about diversity in targets and report publically on their their hiring and promotion policies.43 progress. Recent research shows that the more Canadian corporations will also diverse a company’s senior management advance diversity and expand their is, the better the company is likely procurement options by building closer to perform.39 In fact, board diversity relationships with and strengthening and capital market success have been the capacity of visible minority- shown to be significantly correlated.40 led businesses. They may mentor Other evidence shows that a company’s individual smaller companies or support environmental, social and governance umbrella organizations such as the performance, including the diversity of Canadian Aboriginal and Minority its governance bodies, affects whether Supplier Council, WEConnect Canada the company is perceived as forward- and the Diversity Business Network, thinking and well-managed, and which are working to promote supply therefore a good investment.41 To take chain diversity more generally by: advantage of these performance and communicating the benefits of supply investor benefits, it is in the self-interest chain diversity; highlighting best of shareholders to press businesses to practices; and encouraging corporations set board diversity goals and to track to build relationships with diverse their progress in their annual reports. suppliers.

DiverseCity, the Canadian Board See the related backgrounder, Return on Investment: The Value of Diversity in Corporate Diversity Council, and other Leadership, prepared for the Greater Toronto organizations working at the intersection Summit 2011 at: www.civicaction.ca/publications of diversity and corporate leadership should develop resources to show the economic and social benefits of increased racial and ethnic diversity on boards and share it with their board candidate pools and executive leaders. 27

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region CivicAction’s Greening Greater Toronto experts, Greening Greater Toronto initiative has been working since 2008 identified four areas that, although to identify and take advantage of the challenging, have great potential to highest potential opportunities to improve the region’s environmental improve the region’s environment. With health: commercial waste, energy, water significant progress made towards and biodiversity. Transportation is also a driving down commercial building key area and is addressed in a separate energy use, greening procurement and chapter of this report. generating corporate investments in community emission reductions projects Commercial Waste: Where there is across Canada, Greening Greater Toronto waste, there is inefficiency and unrealized has identified current challenges and potential in the value of discarded goods new opportunities to move forward on. and materials. The commercial sector generates more than 60% of the waste

EN V IRONMENT Challenges going to our region’s landfills, but there The Greater Toronto region is in better is little data about its composition and environmental shape now than it has sources. While some large landlords been in recent years but, according to have made significant progress in The Living City Report Card released better managing their buildings’ waste, by Greening Greater Toronto and the Toronto and Region Conservation Figure 1: The Living City Report Card Authority in January 2011, we need to make substantial improvements to sustain our economic, social and environmental health.44

We’re breathing cleaner air, using less water and diverting more waste from our homes, but we’re struggling to manage stormwater and commercial waste, control sprawl and traffic congestion, and protect our forests and wetlands (Figure 1).

As our region’s economy recovers and our population continues to grow, we need to build and sustain our region differently. We need to identify and seize the opportunities available through our growth while protecting the health of residents and ensuring that the region remains a flourishing place to live, work and invest in the long term. Source: Greening Greater Toronto and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, 2011, with Through months of research and in-kind support from The Boston Consulting consultation with Greening Greater Group, http://www.thelivingcity.org/lcrc/ 28 Toronto’s Task Force and dozens of LivingCityReportCard_web_r1.pdf CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region landlords do not have direct financial Strengths incentives to do so, as the costs are The Summit endorsed the overarching passed on to their tenants within general belief held by Greening Greater operating costs. Tenants do not have Toronto’s community of leaders that a clear sense of the amount of waste our region is perfectly positioned to they’re generating, the costs they are flourish through environmental action incurring and the best practices for and innovation and that such measures reduction and diversion available. The will contribute to our social and region also lacks the capacity to process economic prosperity. Investments in some commercial waste – particularly energy efficiency, renewable energy and organic waste – that could be diverted. green technologies can be leveraged to spur economic development by funding Energy: Reducing demand for energy is early innovation, incorporating training critical in order to improve air quality and reduce carbon emissions. There has been more awareness and action on “If you’re an organization and you energy efficiency and conservation in recent years, but the lack of consistent create garbage, it’s inefficiency... data on energy use and energy measurement standards makes it you’re buying things twice. Everyone difficult for people and organizations to understand and address their energy wants to get rid of inefficiency and use. Many conservation efforts focus on decreasing electricity use, which reduces (the Town of Markham’s zero waste our need for coal-fired power, but we policy) is one way to do it.” need to expand our attention to include natural gas, a large source of carbon - Claudia Marsales, Town of Markham emissions in the Greater Toronto region. opportunities for young people and Water: Living on the edge of Lake members of marginalized communities Ontario, we often take water quantity and purchasing from local suppliers. and quality for granted. Canada’s per Mega projects are powerful, but so are capita water use is among the highest smaller projects that can be aggressively in the world,45 and staggering amounts expanded and repeated, proving (and of infrastructure investment and energy improving on) new technologies or are needed to treat and distribute the approaches (see also the Economy region’s water. A less understood, but in chapter on pages 13-15 of this report). many ways more urgent, water issue is stormwater and flood risk management. The Summit supported the move Stormwater run-off is the single greatest to create more and better bridges factor affecting water quality and the between governments, businesses health of our rivers, but stormwater and communities that can be used to controls exist in only 23% of the region’s leverage the leadership and resources of urban areas.46 businesses, the wisdom and ingenuity of communities and the investment Biodiversity: The region’s natural and planning priorities of governments. ecosystem, which provides many Greening Greater Toronto’s Greening benefits, is under threat, with 63% Canada Fund, managed by Green of plant and animal species at risk. Power Action, is one example of the Increasing the quality and quantity virtuous circle that can be created by of the natural vegetation cover that connecting private capital to community sustains the distribution and population sustainability projects to produce long- of our plants and animals is a major term efficiency gains and cost savings. challenge. Corporations own a significant portion of land in the region and much OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS of it is vacant, paved over or covered with manicured lawns that discourage 1. Develop a regional strategy to reduce natural habitat. and divert commercial waste. An effective regional strategy needs to be informed by and responsive to 29 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region the interests of organizations at each environmental and financial costs by stage of the waste chain, including measuring water consumption and product manufacturers, commercial alerting residents and organizations to waste generators, waste haulers, the amounts of water they consume and companies that can use waste for the effects of their high consumption. other business opportunities, and our This can be helped through: redesigned municipal and provincial governments. water bills; installing smart water The strategy should incorporate such meters; pricing water at its true cost, tools as awareness and education, particularly for industrial consumers; internal procurement policies to reduce using more stormwater to offset drinking packaging, accountability (manufacturer water use for non-drinking water life cycle responsibility), allocation purposes; and seeding ideas to reduce of costs (through green leases and water use in the school curriculum to waste metering), waste processing help drive inter-generational change. capacity and public policies (for example, requiring reporting of waste To improve our water quality and or eliminating subsidies for waste quantity, municipalities need to initiate dumping). and continue planning and investment in stormwater infrastructure development 2. Expand energy conservation and flood risk management, including programs to address electricity and gas providing residents with incentives to use, and explore the opportunities for reduce the water they send into sewers district heating. through downspouts and driveway Greater efforts are needed to develop runoff and to install back flow valves on and implement a standardized way to properties at risk of basement flooding. measure and monitor energy use by offices, industrial operations and other 4. Launch a multi-sectoral effort to institutions, and to use this energy data green corporate and vacant lands. to articulate and promote the business A leadership group of conservation case for energy efficiency. Greening authorities, Ontario Power Generation Greater Toronto is working with office (a biodiversity leader), the Canadian building landlords and tenants to Business and Biodiversity Council and measure and reduce their electricity Wildlife Habitat Council, developers and gas use through its Race to Reduce and other corporate landowners should challenge. Residents also need to better be convened to explore opportunities understand how they can influence their to increase natural vegetation cover households’ energy use (and costs) and on corporate green spaces and vacant be provided with incentives to reduce lands. their gas and other energy consumption. This effort could create an inventory The Summit also considered ways to of existing programs that improve increase use of alternative heating biodiversity and identify the full range of technologies. The City of Toronto, for benefits that greening additional lands example, will allow its properties to be will generate, including stormwater used for geothermal energy installations. management and conserving drinking District heating, common in many water and energy use. The group could European cities, was also discussed, and also recommend appropriate funding its proponents were encouraged to share and incentive mechanisms to encourage data demonstrating its benefits over investments in naturalizing green spaces conventional generation and distribution. (financial incentives, tax credits or carbon offset credits, for example) and 3. Reduce water consumption and changes to municipal bylaws that may improve stormwater and flood inhibit naturalization efforts. risk management by making the environmental and financial case for See the related backgrounder, Flourish Through water consumers and municipalities. Environmental Action and Innovation, prepared for the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 at: www. Water consumption has dropped nine civicaction.ca/publications percent in recent years.47 Further reductions may be achieved by 30 expanding public awareness of its

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All orders of governments have agreed need repairs,52 vacancy rates are that affordable housing is essential in decreasing53 and wait lists for social creating strong, healthy and prosperous housing are growing;54 and communities, but Canada remains the only • almost 90,000 people are on Greater OECD country without a national housing Toronto Area (GTA) wait lists for social strategy, and the development of new safe, housing, and they face a two to 21-year secure and affordable housing has not wait.55 kept pace with the Greater Toronto region’s needs. On March 31, 2011, two key housing programs expired: the federally-funded Challenges Residential Rehabilitation Assistance CivicAction heard from hundreds of Program and the Canada-Ontario Affordable leaders about the importance of ensuring Housing Program (jointly funded by the safe, secure and affordable housing and federal and provincial governments). about the important intersections between These programs are essential for providing housing and employment, health and low- and moderate-income residents education. It became clear that we needed with health and safety home renovations, a shared evidence base for the region to housing allowances, first-time home buyer support dialogue among governments, the assistance and new rental housing. They private sector, non-profit organizations, also boost the economy, create jobs, reduce academics, community agencies and other social housing wait lists and improve housing stakeholders. housing conditions. As noted below, new federal funding was announced in July. In January 2011, in collaboration with CivicAction’s Neighbourhoods and Strengths Affordable Housing Working Group, the Various governments have created City of Toronto’s Affordable Housing Office comprehensive plans and partnered and Toronto Community Housing created with non-profit organizations and private the Toronto Regional Housing Data Bank,48 developers to create affordable and well- a pilot project summarizing regional maintained homes. In the last two years, statistics and trends on housing, poverty the federal and provincial governments and other indicators. Among other things, directed more than $500 million of the Data Bank revealed the following: economic stimulus funding to housing • almost one in five Greater Toronto in the Greater Toronto region. These region households (322,415) struggles investments support the repair and with finding and keeping an affordable renovation of more than 1,000 social home;49 housing buildings. These funds are also • twenty-six percent of owners and 46% creating more than 2,200 affordable of renters pay too much for housing, homes and assisting more than 800 low- devoting more than 30% of their and moderate-income households to buy income to basic housing costs;50 their first home. • the high cost of housing forces many low and moderate-income people OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS to choose between paying rent and buying food;51 1. The federal government should create a • many affordable units in high national housing strategy. 31 rise rental towers are aging and Putting in place a national housing strategy CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region will confirm the centrality of housing to shared interests of the City of Toronto and our economic and social well-being and the rest of the Greater Toronto region and encourage bolder leadership across address common obstacles to affordable Canada on issues of housing and housing development such as uneven homelessness. zoning laws and fees and red tape. This group could also: 2. The federal and Ontario governments • ensure that housing is on every should renew the government housing government’s agenda and that the programs that have recently expired. region’s housing policy needs are In July 2011, the federal, provincial understood; and territorial governments renewed • press for expanded federal and their commitment to housing with the provincial funding and programs and announcement of a $1.4 billion combined the development of a national housing investment toward reducing the number strategy; of Canadians in housing need under a • develop incentives to attract more new Affordable Housing Framework for private sector developers and create 2011-2014. Though the two existing financial tools to enable low- to programs will be discontinued, a bilateral moderate-income households to agreement between the federal government purchase homes affordably; and the Province of Ontario is to be • identify and align obstructive municipal announced this summer. CivicAction is policies, such as zoning bylaws that encouraged by the government’s renewed affect parking, economic activity, commitment and looks forward to further secondary suites, the use of section measures from all orders of government, 37, and inclusionary zoning; the private sector and civil society to • improve public awareness about the address the critical challenge of housing in need for safe, secure and affordable the Greater Toronto region. housing and reduce NIMBYism and the stigma associated with people who live 3. Establish a multi-sector leadership in and need social housing; and group to develop a regional housing • support Greater Toronto Summit 2011 strategy. actions and recommendations relating The private and non-profit sectors must to neighbourhoods (see pages 33-34). join with governments in identifying and leveraging opportunities to expand 4. Maintain and make the Toronto affordable housing. Governments play Regional Housing Data Bank a permanent a crucial role in providing financing, resource. approvals and a supportive planning Summit participants roundly endorsed environment, but we also need leaders making the Data Bank a permanent from business, labour and academia to resource, citing its significant value in develop, fund and advocate for affordable maintaining a fact base for research, housing . decision making, advocacy, and public awareness and education. CivicAction’s consultations indicated the power of bringing a multi-sectoral regional It was suggested that an advisory group be lens to the related issues of housing appointed to expand the Data Bank and and neighbourhoods. York Region has find it a permanent “home.” In future, the put this model to work; the York Region Data Bank could include building costs, Human Services Planning Board convenes success stories, promising practices and developers, faith communities, all orders of a bibliography of other resources, as well government and academics to discuss and as a summary of housing policies across advance housing, health and other pressing the region, to highlight inconsistencies social issues. requiring attention. To broaden the Data Bank’s impact, it was also suggested that A regional housing leadership group it be made available online and promoted facilitated by a non-partisan convenor to new but related audiences such as would stimulate broader discussion aimed business improvement associations.

at creating a common vision, coordinated action and advocacy on housing issues, See the related backgrounder, Housing for Everyone: An Affordable Housing Agenda for the Toronto Region and and connect the dots with transportation, the Toronto Regional Housing Data Bank prepared for jobs and neighbourhood and economic the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 at: www.civicaction. 32 development. The group would surface the ca/publications CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region NEIGHBO U RHOODS

Throughout this report we talk about the Strengths pressing issues facing our region and the The Strong Neighbourhoods Task Force, need to deal with these in a coordinated Toronto’s Regent Park redevelopment way. But, at its heart, our region is also and Peel Region’s resident engagement one of unique neighbourhoods and efforts are all reminders of the power communities where people engage first- of an engaged civil society. We must hand with these larger issues. Healthy continue to find ways to bring key neighbourhoods are the foundation of stakeholders together to create a good resilient individuals and communities, mix of jobs, economic activity and which in turn underpin a region’s ability appropriate and accessible social and to compete globally. While the Greater physical infrastructure. These are, of Toronto region is celebrated for its course, big issues that require strategic, vibrant neighbourhoods, recent evidence coordinated, region-wide action as we suggests that the health and vitality of have called for throughout this report, many neighbourhoods is at a dangerous but at the same time a local lens is tipping point, threatening our social and needed to address specific challenges in economic fabric.56 To reverse this trend, specific neighbourhoods. Bringing multi- we need to tend to the grassroots as well level, multi-partner perspectives to the as the grasstops. challenges and potential opportunities of a particular geographic area61 – Challenges known as a place-based approach Over the last three decades, the Greater – results in solutions that from the Toronto region has become increasingly outset are engrained in the community geographically segregated along socio- (so more sustainable), and fosters 57 economic and ethno-cultural lines. stronger resident engagement and social In 2005, more than one in every four networks. City of Toronto families lived in low- income conditions58 and, in 2006, 46% OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS of low-income families lived in higher poverty neighbourhoods in Toronto 1. Create more opportunities and (in particular in high-rise housing), places for residents to meet and engage up from 18% two decades earlier.59 in community development. Meanwhile, residents are increasingly Endorsing a place-based approach disengaged from planning their to neighbourhood revitalization, the communities. The Province’s Places to Summit suggested that community Grow, a powerful and unique growth building start with resident voices. plan that promises to focus vibrant In general, community life is greatly growth in existing municipalities, enhanced when residents have places involves complex planning processes to interact with each other in casual that present challenges to engagement encounters and formal programs. at the neighbourhood level.60 Without However, many neighbourhoods, action to reverse the poverty trend and especially high-rise communities, lack reduce planning complexity, the social social and recreational spaces or have and economic future of our region may facilities that are in such disrepair that be compromised. they cannot be used.

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Several recent initiatives are paving the piloting, and would complement the way to expand community spaces and development of regional industry and conversations. The Intergovernmental horizontal clusters recommended in the Committee on Economic Development economy section of this report. has mapped growth in the creation of community spaces in the City of Businesses and communities cannot do Toronto that serve as spaces to promote it alone. Governments at all levels must interactions, including community create the conditions to enable business hubs and extended schools.62 New investment in community development. United Way Toronto research suggests As the source of most planning policy, developing positive relationships the Province can further demystify the between tenants and with landlords planning process with language that into collaborations with governments, will be more easily understood and agencies and business to improve used, and create policy statements community economic and social life, supporting community development that as it is doing in high-rise communities will lead municipal regimes to follow through its Action for Neighbourhood suit. Creating new, affordable spaces Change initiative. Peel Region and United for small-scale economic development Way of Peel Region are also embarking and commercial activities, for example, on a similar project to map assets and will require amendments to municipal support resident leaders in high need zoning regulations to permit diversified communities. Similar partnerships can land use in residential areas and tax be launched in other neighbourhoods or other incentives to promote private and high-rise communities where social sector investment. Governments can and recreational spaces either do not also help to develop and test new tools, exist, are inadequate, or where social such as capital release and micro disorder is pronounced. lending, social hiring and the innovative application of Section 3763 funding for 2. Develop innovative opportunities the development of commercial hubs. for private sector investment in under- invested neighbourhoods. 3. Develop and maintain a The private sector has an important role comprehensive neighbourhood to play in neighbourhood renewal, not revitalization and community building just as a funder, but as a partner and best practice case book and a virtual investor in local economic development. community to facilitate knowledge Small and medium sized businesses can exchange. support neighbourhood revitalization Neighbourhoods, local and region-wide through local economic development actors, community-based researchers, by providing goods and services and academic research centres, planners, creating new jobs. Larger businesses funders, investors and governments can help them develop through things are all generating valuable information, like mentorship to improve capacity knowledge and learning that could be and investment partnerships to leveraged widely if effectively shared. provide access to capital. Innovation While attempts to do this were made hubs or centres can also help to in the past, a lack of resources and spur development and support for collaboration prevented a sustained entrepreneurs and social enterprises. effort. There are many organizations with mandates to facilitate knowledge Private sector investment and a exchange – Social Planning Toronto, partnership in Regent Park involving the the Centre for City Ecology, the Cities Daniels Corporation, RBC, Tim Hortons, Centre and the United Ways across Sobeys and Toronto Community Housing the region, to name a few – and which offers an excellent model, albeit one of could instigate a renewed effort to larger scale private sector investment develop, maintain and disseminate a than most communities could attract. comprehensive best practices interface. This experience will help build an evidence-based business case that can See the related backgrounder, Every Place be replicated on a different scale in Matters: Investing in Complete Neighbourhoods and Communities, prepared for the Greater Toronto other parts of the region. Models to Summit 2011 at: www.civicaction.ca/publications create sustainable partnerships such 34 as these need further exploration and CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region A rts & c u lt u re

The Greater Toronto region is home Further, even once trust is developed, to approximately 8,500 arts and it will be complicated to get such a cultural organizations, employing over large number of organizations to align 150,000 people and generating about around common goals and speak with $9 billion for the nation’s GDP.64 Arts a unified voice. Scarce resources alone and culture are not just important to may deter many from committing to economic development and employment sector-wide efforts, as they instead opportunities; they are also a focus their limited time and funding on fundamental building block to a healthy running core businesses, developing and vibrant society. Summit participants future audiences and providing outreach believe we can build on our existing efforts to fill the void left by declining strengths and increase the profile of our arts education in schools. arts and culture sector, making it a core pillar of our identity both domestically Strengths and abroad. The large number of people and organizations involved in the Greater Challenges Toronto region’s arts and culture sector More than 200 artists, arts and culture speaks to its power and potential administrators, funders and educators to make change if its resources are took part in pre-Summit Working aligned. It is a very positive sign that so Group meetings, regional roundtables many appear ready to pursue greater and individual consultations. They collaboration among arts and cultural acknowledged that every arts organizations and with other sectors. organization is struggling individually with these and other pressing issues: OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

• organizations need to grow revenue 1. Establish a steering committee and diversify funding sources in comprised of representatives from a the face of declining government diverse range of arts organizations from support; across the region to move the sector • smaller and medium sized towards greater collaboration and organizations need to repair and perhaps an enduring formal structure. renew facilities; and There was strong consensus at the • all organizations need to foster Summit that the Greater Toronto region audience growth and development in can be the world’s leading cultural an increasingly diverse region. capital. It was suggested that the arts and culture sector adopt this vision and They also agreed that these struggles ensure that every person in the Greater could be lessened, and greater results Toronto region can see themselves in achieved, if they collaborated more on it, in particular those in business and virtually every issue they face. education due to the key roles those sectors play in regional economic Yet, collaboration remains a big development and the cultivation of challenge for the sector. It will take artists and audiences. time to build trust and recognition of mutual interest among organizations It was agreed that any collaboration that compete for funds and audiences. should include representation from 35 CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region organizations of all sizes and across all vintners in the late 1980s to help disciplines. Both for-profit and non-profit market their individual labels; business representatives would also be • develop new audiences: Summit key players in any collaboration, not just participants proposed several ways as funders, but also as active partners to target and gather data about in determining and pursuing a path. the arts interests of newcomers, Finally, it was agreed that a collaborative students, tourists or other body would not necessarily need to be a demographic groups: building on new organization and could be housed in programs like the Toronto Public an existing arts service organization. Library’s Museum and Arts Pass, a Greater Toronto region “Arts Establishing a regional steering Pass” to provide access to all committee to research and propose an types of art as well as free public action plan for the sector and relevant transportation to exhibits and shows; “Culturalicious,” an arts version of the popular Toronto restaurant “This is not an ‘us and them’ situation. promotion; and a program like Big Brothers and Big Sisters, in which None of us can afford to be divided.” experienced patrons expose the next - Jeff Melanson, Canada’s generation to arts and culture or established arts organizations and National Ballet School artists mentor newer ones; • build the balance sheet of arts partners would be an important first organizations: develop a creative step towards sustainable collaboration. industry social venture fund and Among other things, this committee strategic partnerships to encourage could consider facilitating greater sector- more business involvement in wide collaboration (proposed during the arts and to offset declining the pre-Summit consultations); perhaps government support; and developing a campaign or event with a • incubate a sector-wide “Big Bang” single area of focus as a starting point, event: this would be aimed at and later transforming the platform bringing artists together with sports, that emerges into a formal structure for cultural and other organizations to future collaboration. foster long term relationships and collaboration. The first of these The Summit suggested a number events could be held at the Pan/ of specific and pressing issues and Parapan Am Games – “PanAmania!” opportunities that could anchor an initial campaign by sector and related If this initial collaboration proves leaders. The following are all ideas successful, the committee should that could be driven or carried out by consider establishing a formal structure individual groups or sub-sectors, but to facilitate ongoing collaboration within that will only achieve their full potential the sector on marketing, advocacy and with significant collaboration across the other activities. There was considerable sector: appetite during the Summit proceedings to consider a more enduring body. • establish the independent research and policy centre referred to below; 2. Establish an independent research • establish a region-wide arts and and policy centre focused on issues culture summit: in the spirit of the affecting the arts and culture sector. Canada Arts Summit, the summit While many organizations have a wealth would regularly bring together of information about the size and leaders to discuss sector-wide economic impact of the sector, this is challenges and practical solutions to not systematically shared for broad use. address them; Creating a mechanism for organizing • create and launch a sector-wide and providing access to information brand to promote arts and culture in like this would help the larger arts eco- the Greater Toronto region to local system to: residents and visitors: this could be modelled on VQA Ontario, a powerful • better communicate with the general 36 over-arching brand created by the population as well as funders and CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region provincial and municipal cultural The Greater Philadelphia Cultural policy agendas; the impacts of social, Alliance has a stated goal of economic and technological changes; doubling audience participation and the potential for public-private in the arts by 2020. It engages partnerships and alternate funding in marketing, research, advocacy models in the wake of diminishing and policy work on behalf of the government resources. arts and culture sector in Greater Philadelphia. The Alliance conducts There are numerous organizations with its own research and partners with mandates to gather information relating third party researchers. It publishes to their organization, genre or the the results of its extensive research sector at large, including the Creative to make its region’s population, Trust, the Ontario Arts Council, the lawmakers and civic leaders aware Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts, of the social and economic impact Business for the Arts and individual arts of the arts and culture sector. organizations, to name a few. Any one The Alliance is also very active in or more of these could initiate an effort policy and advocacy efforts, which to create a sector-focused research are informed by its research and and policy centre. There was a strong analysis.65 preference for such a centre not to be government-funded, at least initially, but instead to acquire resources through policy makers; secondments, member contributions • track relevant trends and highlight and other means. gaps needing attention; and • identify more effective ways to See the related backgrounder, Arts & Culture: Vision reach out to new and broader and Value Through New Collaborations, prepared for the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 at: www. demographics. civicaction.ca/publications

The sector would benefit also from a centralized source of data, best practices and research into the wider issues affecting arts and culture, including: international, national,

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region The Pan/Parapan American Games initiatives. Through these and other (“the Games”), coming to the Greater initiatives, TO2015 seeks to work with in 2015, presents an youth to: incredible opportunity for the Greater • create meaningful engagement for Toronto region to advance the value of youth, such as inclusion in decision sport, spur economic development and making; engage residents, particularly youth, in • define the value proposition and a unique, world class experience - the spread the messages; and largest multi-sports event ever held in • create TO2015-led actions to launch Canada. a truly lasting legacy with targeted benefits to young people. Challenges TO2015, the Games’ organizer, has four The Summit strongly endorsed short years to create the Games and, in TO2015’s intention to engage youth keeping with its mandate and vision, to in the Pan/Parapan Am Games, achieve several tasks related to youth: urging that this start immediately and • motivate youth who are not regularly continue throughout the planning and active or perhaps cynical about the implementation, and continue after Games to get active and involved; the Games. In working to involve youth U TH G ames & YO • create distinct programming and and others, the Summit recommended

PAN/PARAPAN AM PAN/PARAPAN delivery to attract youth to Games- that TO2015 pay particular attention to related initiatives; the region’s neighbourhoods (including • coordinate many different internal priority neighbourhoods), its vast range and external agendas and programs of ethno-cultural groups, newcomers, so that the engagement process is those at-risk of social and economic not derailed; and exclusion and young people who are not • unify the 17 municipalities involved pursuing an education. in a shared effort that will offer equal opportunities to all Greater Toronto OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS region youth. 1. Build awareness and buy-in through Strengths a multi-faceted public information The Games’ scale and influence is campaign that includes the voices expected to have an impact in the of youth and engages them through years leading up to 2015 and leave a existing networks and organizations. legacy for years to come. As youth will Widespread familiarity with and buy-in inherit this legacy, they should play a to the Games’ value proposition will help role in its shaping. TO2015 is off to a TO2015 engage youth and other Greater good start, with a youth engagement Toronto region residents. To accelerate strategy supported by community public awareness, Summit participants consultation that includes initiatives suggested that TO2015 should deliver such as: establishing a youth advisory a widespread information campaign council; convening major youth and highlighting the social, economic and sports organizations to collaborate environmental gains the Games will on a signature youth program; and produce for youth and other parts of the encouraging existing youth programs community, and the opportunities for 38 to add a Pan/Parapan Am lens to their them to be engaged. CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region TO2105 can leverage social media The Summit recommended that TO2015 to create and spread the story of the implement a social hiring policy that Games, particularly among younger targets diverse groups of youth for demographics. In addition to promoting employment, training and volunteer TO2105 messages, social media opportunities and that would be binding provides an equal-opportunity vehicle for for contractors and sub-contractors, youth and others to use text and videos as well as TO2015 itself. Youth can to tell their own stories – what’s in it for bring social media savvy to marketing them, their future and their community – and branding, pitch and execute on and to help fuel others’ imagination and ideas for entrepreneurial ventures, interest in a narrative that will counter contribute strength and ingenuity to the current preoccupation with costs. construction, and serve as energetic and diverse ambassadors. One table Social media alone will not be enough: at the Summit suggested taking 500 TO2015 needs multiple ways to generate and showcase the Games story from many diverse perspectives. Leveraging “One measure of success is the the region’s schools, colleges and universities and its plethora of active impact these Games will have on our youth networks, youth-led and youth- serving organizations is crucial. Working children and youth.” with these groups will ensure that youth - Ian Troop, TO2015 from a diverse set of geographic and cultural communities and interests are Greater Toronto region youth to the next intentionally and properly reached, help Games in Mexico to spur their thinking prevent duplication, avoid exclusion about the possibilities for 2015. Youth and increase the community’s sense of should be recognized and rewarded for active partnership in the Games and their contributions, but the key legacy ownership in its city region-building of developing employment and training legacy. opportunities will be obtaining real skills development and experience that will 2. Provide youth with access to sport, prepare them for future employment and leadership development, influence, and education. jobs, apprenticeships and volunteer roles; set clear measurable targets. As well as making an explicit The Games will clearly spur youth commitment to engage youth in all sports and activity, but the Summit aspects of the Games, the Summit recommends that youth also be engaged called on TO2105 to measure its through what the YMCA calls their success. From tracking the number “head, heart, feet and soul.” In schools, of youth serving as volunteers, in the Games can be built into geography paid roles and at decision-making and math programs, not just gym tables, to monitoring levels of youth classes, and we must think more broadly physical activity and participation in about youth engagement opportunities the Games and pre-Games programs, in our communities as well. it is important that we hold ourselves accountable when it comes to youth The Summit recognized the Games’ engagement. tremendous potential to affirm the value of sport – some suggested supporting See the related backgrounder, Youth Engagement: sport as an essential service or creating The Pan/Parapan Am Opportunity, prepared for the Greater Toronto Summit 2011 at: www.civicaction. an annual Luminato of sports – and ca/publications to surface some of the obstacles now inhibiting greater sports involvement. Many financial, infrastructure shortage and other barriers exist for athletes in our region. Para athletes in particular can face the high costs of specialized equipment and feel challenged by the persistent stigma that wheelchair athletes are not “real athletes.” 39

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7Alexander, C, Burleton, D. & Gulati, S. (October 2010).

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29Gates-Gasse, E. (October 1, 2010). “‘Two Step’ Immigration Canada’s new immigration system raises troubling issues.” The Monitor. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

30Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative. (March 2011). TIEDI Labour Force Update. Toronto. NB: 14.2% unemployment rate for recent immigrants is for Canada as a whole; data for the Toronto CMA was not reported in this source.

31Gates-Gasse, E. (October 1, 2010).

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33Anderson, S. & Platzer, M. (2010). American Made: The Impact of Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Professionals on U.S. Competitiveness. Arlington, Virginia: National Venture Capital Association.

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36Cukier, W., Yap, M., Aspevig, K. & Lejasisaks, L. (2011). Diversity Counts 3: A Snapshot of Diverse Leadership in the GTA. Toronto: DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project.

37Ibid.

38Statistics Canada. (2010). Study: Projections of the diversity of the Canadian population. Ottawa.

39Hagemeier, W., Holst, A. & Eden, M. (2010). Vive la difference! Outlook: The Journal of High-Performance Business. Accenture.

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44CivicAction’s Greening Greater Toronto and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. (2011). The Living City Report Card. Toronto: Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance and Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region 45Conference Board of Canada. 2009/2010. How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada.

46CivicAction’s Greening Greater Toronto and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. (2011). p 28. Area refers to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s jurisdiction (City of Toronto and parts of Regions of Durham, Peel, and York, a portion of the Township of Adjala-Tosorontio and Town of Mono.)

47Ibid. p 30.

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55Ibid.

56Wilkinson, Richard and Kate Pickett. (2009). The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better. London: Allen Lane. Also see: Yalnizyan, Armine. (2010). The Rise of Canada’s Richest 1%. Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Growing Gap.

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63Section 37 of the Planning Act permits the City of Toronto to authorize increases in permitted height and/ or density through the zoning bylaw in return for community benefits.

64Statistics Canada. (2006). Labour Force Survey 2006. Ottawa.

65See the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance website, About Us section at:

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region The Summit discussions surfaced many good Environment ideas for action in addition to those detailed • Launch a packaging innovation in the main body of this report. Some of competition to reduce waste. more good ideas these ideas are ready for uptake by individual • Develop a “green lottery” program to or groups of organizations, but others help engage the public in biodiversity require more thought and development. issues and raise funding to naturalize A selection is included here to stimulate private green space. further collaboration and partnerships. • Launch a public incentive campaign to install back flow valves on properties at Economy risk of basement flooding. • Tell the regional story through mass media to inspire more regional thinking Housing and action. • Seed 30+ small local housing projects • Leverage youth and business methods that are organized at a regional level but and tools for cross-boundary co- reflect local realities and needs. operation (e.g. digital media). • Create an initiative (“the home school”) • Create peer-to-peer networks to foster involving secondary school and/or mentorship within economic clusters. college and university students that provides them with an opportunity to Jobs & Income learn, contribute their skills and teach • Increase the capacity of small and others about housing issues. medium sized companies to invest in their workforces (i.e., training, child care Neighbourhoods provision, health and other benefits) with • Create more learning partnerships tax incentives or tax relief on pooled between academic institutions and resources. community agencies. • Produce a short guide that: • Establish a business neighbourhood • explains how claw-backs and ‘adoption’ program to promote sustained marginal effective tax rates affect local investment and community people receiving social assistance as partnerships. they start working; or • Stimulate more private sector investment • demonstrates the return on in neighbourhoods by telling the positive investment of various supports, stories. such as expected outcomes and anticipated savings over the long Arts & Culture term. • Establish creative labs throughout the region – spaces where professional Transportation and amateur arts practitioners can go, • Foster a greater sense (and reality) of work and make easy connections with public ownership of transportation with each other. This is a focus of Artscape, a community investment bond. among others, and can draw from the • Set up information kiosks in public successful shared space and service places or conduct a mass postal models launched for social innovators campaign to explain the regional by the Centre for Social Innovation in transportation vision, value proposition Toronto and for community agencies by and progress being made on Community Door in Peel Region. implementing it. • Develop education modules for primary Pan/Parapan Am Games & Youth and secondary schools to prepare the • Develop a Youth Ambassadors Program next generation for future planning needs for the Games that goes beyond athletes and discussions. to include a much wider representation of young voices and experiences. Immigration • Host a youth summit leading up to the • Offer incentives to employers to hire Games. newcomers, such as employer tax credits or relief programs. • Expand micro-lending across the region.

Diversity • Corporate boards should make one new diverse appointment for every three retiring directors. • Publish and promote SMEs who qualify as “diverse suppliers.”

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CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region CivicAction acknowledges with deep thanks the many people* and organizations that contributed to the success of the Greater Toronto Summit 2011.

Greater Toronto Summit 2011 Staff and Volunteers CivicAction Staff Ian Flett Amelie Foz-Couture Tamara Balan, Project Megan Fowler Afzal Habib Manager Suzanne Gallant KC Li Tiffany Blair, Policy Intern Vivian Gallegos Erin MacKenzie Sarah Cheng, Office Manager Mark Hamill Hayley Margio Adrienne Davis, Project Intern Dee Dee Heywood Steve Mitchelmore Julia Deans, CEO Mirella Iannelli Robin Ridesic Carolyn DuBois, Project Andreas Krebs Spenser Rocky Officer Erica Lemieux Michael Sharp Joanna Flatt, Policy Intern Edwin Li Whitney Skinner Bob Gallant, Program Adrian Lightstone Gavin Stanley Manager Carly Martin Rebecca Geller, Jacob Mksyartinian Deloitte Volunteers Communications and Events Robin Newman Laura Adams Officer Dawa Ngodup Ruchika Bhalla Heather Goodwin, Intern Trish Nixon Andrea Chalmers-Ozimec cknowledgements Michelynn Laflèche, Greater Serena Nudel Bryan Chan Toronto Summit 2011 Naqaash Pirani Salima Ebrahim

A Program Director Dawn Richards Jatinder Gill Julia Lo, Project Officer Sumaiya Sajjad Prashant Matta Naki Osutei, Vice President, Ann Sandy Anju Mehta Strategy Jaclyn Sopik Daniel Shidvash Cindy Tan, Project Manager Markus Stadelmann-Elder Adrian Spanu Tiffany Vong, Project Officer David Steeves Julian Torres Santeli Linda Weichel, Program Melissa Tan Kevin Willson Director Tracy Tavares Ilana Zbar Bryce Workman, Project Tasleem Thawar Officer Ann Turnbull Public relations support Cathy Zhao provided by Dorenda McNeil Volunteers and Sarah Kirkpatrick of Christopher Allen The Boston Consulting Group Counsel Public Relations. Lucy Bellisario Volunteers Geneviève M. Bonin Kate Banting Unless otherwise noted, all titles Alexandra C. John Bayliss given are as they were at the time Lori Cefaloni Kilian Berz of the Summit. Laurian Farrell Keith Bussey Stephanie Fenyes Stephanie Choo Mike Flatt Sara Dolcetti Jason Flatt Lisa Dymond 44

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Pre-Summit Working Groups and Consultation Participants

* denotes co-chairs Tim Jones, Artscape Economic Development: Bernita Kiefte, AGO Craig Alexander, TD Bank Arts and Culture: Jacoba Knaapen, Toronto Group Nichole Anderson, Business Alliance for the Performing Natasha Apollonova, Toronto for the Arts Arts Board of Trade Cameron Bailey, Toronto Che Kothari, Manifesto Ted Anderson, Ventures West International Film Festival* Anita Lee, National Film Cameron Bailey, Toronto Scott Belton, TD Bank Group Board of Canada International Film Festival and Acting Up Stage* Brad Lepp, Luminato Scott Belton, TD Bank Group Jill Black, J.E. Black & Gayle Longley, RBC Pierre Bergevin, Cushman Company Ltd. Beryl MacLeod, Toronto Youth Wakefield Bill Boyle, Harbourfront Wind Orchestra Killian Berz, The Boston Stephen Bulger, Contact Costin Manu, Rose Theatre Consulting Group Photography Festival & Andrew Bevan, Sustainable Stephen Bulger Gallery Jeff Melanson, Canada’s Prosperity Colin Clarke, Toronto Youth National Ballet School Ron Bidulka, Deloitte Wind Orchestra Weyni Mengesha, Artist John Brodhead, Metrolinx Rita Davies, City of Toronto Marie Moliner, Canadian Ray Cao, Loose Button Inc. Lisa de Wilde, TVO Heritage John Cruickshank, The Glenn Dobbin, ROM Natasha Mytnowych, Toronto Star Sean Farnel, HotDocs Canadian Stage Company Nan DasGupta, The Boston Jim Fleck, Business for the Nada Ristich, BMO Consulting Group Arts Tracey Sandilands, Pride Clint Davis, Canadian Council Ken Gass, Factory Theatre Toronto for Aboriginal Business Joe Halstead, Caribana Barbara Sellers-Young, York Cam di Prata, National Bank Camilla Holland, Tarragon University, Centre for Fine Financial Theatre Arts Renato Discenza, Invest Claire Hopkinson, Toronto Gavin Sheppard, The Remix Toronto Arts Council Project Patrick Draper, Toronto Sandy Houston, Metcalf Jini Stolk, Creative Trust Region Research Alliance Foundation Matthew Teitelbaum, Art Sam Duboc, Edgestone Matthew Hyland, Oakville Gallery of Ontario Capital Partners Inc. Galleries Gerry Townsend, Mississauga Janet Ecker, Toronto Financial Matthew Jocelyn, Canadian Living Arts Centre Services Alliance Stage Company Jim Valentine, Mirvish Babak Eslahjou, Core Sonia Sakamoto-Jog, Reel Productions Architects Inc. Asian Film Festival 45

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Larry Frost, Native Canadian Kevin Stolarick, Martin Gail Nyberg, Daily Bread Food Centre of Toronto Prosperity Institute Bank Sarah Goel, Edgestone Capital Tina Tehranchian, Assante Michael Oliphant, Daily Bread Partners Inc. Capital Management Ltd. Food Bank Anne Golden, The Conference Bill Thomas, KPMG Ratna Omidvar, Maytree Board of Canada John Tory, Greater Toronto Adaoma Patterson, Region of Andrew Graham, Nortel CivicAction Alliance* Peel Jason Greene, Harry Rosen Ian Troop, Toronto 2015 Pan/ Barney Savage, CAMH Inc. Parapan American Games Michael Shapcott, Wellesley Anthony Haines, Toronto Mary Webb, Scotiabank Institute Hydro Tim Weichel, Van Houtte John Stapleton, Open Policy Joe Halstead, Caribana Coffee Services Inc Bill Young, Social Capital Brad J. Henderson, Gibraltar Marc Weiner, Tandem Partners Solutions Inc. Expansion Fund Observers: Robert Hogue, RBC Kevin West, SkyLaw Josh Hjartarson, Mowat Shirley Hoy, Toronto Lands Alan Whitfield, Harry Rosen Centre Corporation Inc. Emilee Irwin, Ministry of Mitzie Hunter, Toronto Ted Wigdor, CGA Ontario Children & Youth Services Community Housing Carol Wilding, Toronto Board Joe Manion, City of Toronto Christina Kakaflakis, Town of Trade* Shaun Young, Mowat Centre of Markham - Economic Craig Wright, RBC Development David E. Yundt, Plexxus Labour Markets and Labour Frances Lankin, United Way Force Readiness: Toronto Income Security: Cecilia Acquaye, Loblaw Toby Lennox, Greater Toronto Andrea Baldwin, Canadian Company Airports Authority (GTAA) Business for Social Jane Allen, Deloitte Rob MacIsaac, Mohawk Responsibility* Michael Bach, KPMG College Pedro Barata, Atkinson Zahra Bhanji, The Learning Allan Mark, Ernst & Young Foundation Partnership Gillian Mason, United Way Grant Bishop, TD Bank Group Pinoo Bindhani, Ryerson Toronto Rick Blickstead, Wellesley University Kelly McDougald, Institute Kay Blair, Community Knightsbridge John Brodhead, Metrolinx MicroSkills Development Lloyd McCoomb, GTAA Sherry Campbell, Frontier Centre Elizabeth McIsaac, Toronto College Robin Cardozo, Ontario Region Immigrant Pat Capponi, Voices from the Trillium Foundation Employment Council (TRIEC) Street Catherine Chandler-Crichlow, Susan McIsaac, United Way John Cartwright, Toronto & Toronto Financial Services Toronto York Region Labour Council Alliance Jim Milway, Institute Katherine Chan, Institute Wendy Cukier, Ryerson for Competitiveness & for Competitiveness & University Prosperity Prosperity Guilherme Dias, Pitney Bowes Robert Montgomery, Achilles Anette Chawla, Patrick Dillon, Provincial Media Ltd Harvest Food Bank Building and Construction Michael-Rey Pablo, General Greig Clark, Toronto Christian Trades Council of Ontario Electric Resource Centre Pascal Gauthier, TD Bank Hari Panday, ICICI Bank Rick Eagan, St. Christopher Group Nicholas Parker, CleanTech House Nathan Gilbert, Laidlaw Group LLC Joey Edwardh, Community Foundation Jagoda Pike Development Halton Josephine Grayson, Toronto Courtney Pratt, Toronto Dr. Usha George, Ryerson 2015 Pan/Parapan Region Research Alliance University American Games Vidoll Regisford, Goodwill Dr. James Gray-Donald, Sears Kristi Harrison, Centennial Steve Romanyshyn, Ministry Canada Inc. College of Economic Development Morley Katz, Management Dean Herd, City of Toronto and Trade (MEDT) Matters Inc. Pat Horgan, IBM Canada Ltd. Rana Sarkar, Rawlings Deena Ladd, Workers Action Geoffrey King, Toronto Atlantic, Canada-India Centre Financial Services Alliance Business Council Gillian Manning, TD Bank Karen Lior, Toronto Workforce Marsha Seca, MEDT Group Innovation Group Peter Sloly, Toronto Police James Milway, Institute Sandra Lopes, Maytree Service for Competitiveness & Andrew MacDonald, Eva’s Kash Sood, Ranka Enterprises Prosperity Initiatives Pradeep Sood, Ontario Tonika Morgan, Toronto Elizabeth McIsaac, TRIEC* Chamber of Commerce Community Housing Lisa Melo, RBC Ed Sorbara, The Sorbara Colette Murphy, Metcalf Lidia Monaco, St. Christopher 46 Group Foundation House

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Liz Mulholland, Independent Neil Hetherington, Habitat Marni Cappe, M Cappe Consultant Toronto Consulting Colette Murphy, Metcalf Rob Howarth, Toronto Marty Collier, Healthy Foundation Neighbourhood Centres Transport Consulting Ratna Omidvar, Maytree Shirley Hoy, Toronto Lands Julia Deans, Greater Toronto Richard Pinnock, York Corporation CivicAction Alliance* University J. David Hulchanski, Cities Patrick Dillon, Provincial Brenda Pipitone, George Centre Building and Construction Brown College Mitzie Hunter, Toronto Trades Council of Ontario Rana Sarkar, Canada-India Community Housing* Dina Graser, People Plan Business Council; Rawlings Ahmed Hussein, Thorncliffe Toronto Atlantic* Neighbourhood Office Franz Hartman, Toronto Susan Uchida, RBC Shemina Karmali, Ismaili Environmental Alliance Jim Vanderveken, Mohawk Muslim Council for Ontario Neal Irwin, IBI Group College of Applied Arts and Susan MacDonnell, United Richard Joy, Toronto Board of Technology Way Toronto Trade Mary Webb, Scotiabank Medhat Mahdy, YMCA Chris Kennedy, University of Lois Willson, Humber College Gillian Mason, United Way Toronto Karen Wilson, City of Toronto Toronto* Andy Manahan, Residential & Tom Zizys, Independent Heather McGregor, YWCA Civil Construction Alliance of Consultant and Metcalf Mazyar Mortazavi, TAS Ontario Innovation Fellow DesignBuild Anna Pace, Toronto Transit Keiko Nakamura, Toronto Commission (TTC) Neighbourhoods and Community Housing Gil Penalosa, 8-80 Cities Affordable Housing: Marisa Piattelli, Waterfront Marisa Piattelli, Waterfront Wendell Adjetey, JVS Toronto Toronto Toronto Jehad Aliweiwi, Thorncliffe Susan Pigott, CAMH Dylan Reid, Spacing Magazine Neighbourhood Office Jenny Poulos, RBC Peter Schrum, Bombardier Derek Ballantyne, Build Lindsey Reed, Social Housing Transportation Canada Inc. Toronto Services Corporation Henry Wiercinski, McCarthy Joe Berridge, Urban Sarah Rix, City of Toronto Tétrault LLP Strategies Inc. James Robinson, Geoffrey Wilson, Toronto Port Rahul Bhardwaj, Toronto Downtown Yonge Business Authority Community Foundation Improvement Area Brian Zeiler-Kligman, Toronto Jill Black, J.E. Black & Brian Smith, WoodGreen Board of Trade Company Ltd. Community Services Chris Brillinger, Social Policy, Opal Sparks, Voices from the Greening Greater Toronto Analysis & Research, City of Street Task Force Summit Working Toronto Graeme Stewart, ERA Group Members: Jeb Brugmann, The Next Architects Derek Ballantyne, Build Practice Nicole Stewart, City of Toronto John Campey, Social Planning Toronto Suzanne Barrett, Barrett Toronto Gary Switzer, MOD Consulting Linda Chamberlain, Voices Developments Inc. Antoine Belaieff, Metrolinx from the Street Jasmine Tehara, TD Bank Kilian Berz, The Boston Linda Coltman, Voices from Group Consulting Group the Street Keith Ward, Ontario Non- Ted Bowering, City of Toronto Brian Conway, Ontario Profit Housing Association Jamil Bundalli, Urban Trillium Foundation Shelley White, United Way of Strategies Inc. Sue Corke, City of Toronto Peel Graeme Deans, Schulich Steve Diamond, Diamondcorp Susan Wright, Toronto Arts School of Business Diane Dyson, WoodGreen Council Sameer Dhalla, Toronto Community Services Daniele Zanotti, United Way and Region Conservation Barbara Emmanuel, City of York Region Authority Toronto Tyson Dyck, Torys LLP Maureen Fair, St. Christopher Transportation and Other Julie Dzerowicz, Empire Club House Infrastructure: of Canada Sean Gadon, City of Toronto Joe Berridge, Urban Laurian Farrell, Toronto Renee Gomes, Waterfront Strategies Inc. and Region Conservation Toronto Andrew Bevan, Sustainable Authority Vincent Gasparro, Prosperity Blair Feltmate, University of Primanagement Inc. Alan Broadbent, Avana Capital Waterloo S. Gopi Gopikrishna, Corporation and Maytree Marion Fraser, Fraser & Scarborough Housing John Brodhead, Metrolinx* Company Pamela Grant, Youth Jamil Bundalli, Urban Chris Hanz, Orontas Challenge Fund Strategies Inc. Alex Hocevar, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation 47

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Steve Hounsell, Ontario Power Juan Carranza, Carranza Generation Barristers & Solicitors Peter Johnson, Johnson Prof. Sujit Choudhry, Consulting University of Toronto Pat Koval, Torys LLP* Charles Coffey, Greater Colin Lacey, Evergreen Toronto CivicAction Alliance Dena Lewis, Toronto and John Cruickshank, The Region Conservation Toronto Star Authority Dave Forster, PwC Eva Ligeti, Clean Air Anne Golden, The Conference Partnership Board of Canada Peter Love, Love Energy Hamlin Grange, DiversiPro Consultants* Inc. Deborah Martin-Downs, Julia Hanigsberg, Ryerson Toronto and Region University Conservation* Zabeen Hirji, RBC Anne McConnell, McConnell Shirley Hoy, Toronto Lands Hirning Consulting Corporation Jane McFarlane, Weston Dr. Alex Jadad, University Consulting Group Health Network and Bernie McIntyre, Toronto University of Toronto and Region Conservation Zahir Janmohamed, Canadian Authority Centre for Diversity Karen Nasmith, Stanley Julien, BMO planningAlliance Vahan Kololian, The Mosaic Mike Pedersen, TD Bank Institute Group Bill MacKinnon, The Canadian Courtney Pratt, Toronto Institute of Chartered Region Research Alliance Accountants Francisca Quinn, Loop Bahadur Madhani, Equiprop Initiatives Management Limited Janine Reaburn, LoyaltyOne Allan Mark, Ernst & Young Robin Ridesic, The Boston Faduma Mohamed, Labour Consulting Group Community Services Michael Sharp, The Boston Marie Moliner, Department of Consulting Group Canadian Heritage Darlene Thomson-Mourao, Keiko Nakamura, Toronto LoyaltyOne Community Housing Mike Velshi Joe Natale, TELUS Michael Went, Government of Ratna Omidvar, Maytree* Ontario Jagoda Pike Fred Winegust Kasi Rao, Kasi Rao Consulting Tanya Rumble, Halton Region DiverseCity Steering Anne Sado, George Brown Committee: College Michael Adams, Environics Dr. Colin Saldanha, Saldanha Group of Companies Health Centre Jane Allen, Deloitte Paulette Senior, YWCA Jehad Aliweiwi, Thorncliffe Canada Neighbourhood Office Alfonso Soriano, Ontario Cameron Bailey, Toronto Financing Authority International Film Festival Bill Thomas, KPMG Group John Tory, Greater Toronto Courtney Betty, Diversity CivicAction Alliance* Business Network Frank Walwyn, Weir-Foulds Rahul Bhardwaj, Toronto LLP Community Foundation Carol Wilding, Toronto Board Kay Blair, Community of Trade MicroSkills Development Centre Unless otherwise noted, all titles Ann Buller, Centennial College given are as they were at the time Alan Broadbent, Avana Capital of pre-Summit Working Groups and consultations. Corporation and Maytree Ray Cao, Loose Button Inc. L. Robin Cardozo, Ontario Trillium Foundation 48

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* denotes speakers, Garvia Bailey*, CBC Andrew Bevan, Sustainable moderators and panelists A. Charles Baillie, Alberta Prosperity at CivicAction’s Greater Investment Management Ruchika Bhalla, Deloitte Toronto Summit 2011. Company Rahul Bhardwaj*, Toronto Doreen Balabanoff, OCAD Community Foundation Liban Abokor, Toronto University Komal Bhasin, Ministry of Community Housing; Living Andrea Baldwin, Canadian Children and Youth Services the Lessons Business for Social Ritu Bhasin, bhasin consulting Suhail Abualsameed, Responsibility inc. Sherbourne Health Centre Derek Ballantyne, Build Toronto Joe Bilé, Toronto Hydro Munira Abukar, Toronto Yvonne Bambrick Pinoo Bindhani, Ryerson Community Housing Ian Bandeen, Canadian National University Rocco Achampong, Law Office Stock Exchange Suzanna Birchwood, Toronto of Rocco K. Achampong Pedro Barata, United Way Port Authority Cecilia Acquaye, Loblaw Toronto Grant Bishop, TD Bank Group Companies Limited Karim Bardeesy*, The Globe Dr. Maurice Bitran, Ministry of Ann Adair, Siemens Canada Ltd. and Mail Economic Development and Laura Adams, Deloitte Inka Bari, KPMG LLP Trade David Agnew, Seneca College Julie Wong Barker Willa Black, Cisco Canada Rizwan Ahmad, RBC Lisa Bate, Canada Green Jill Black, J.E. Black & Company Jenny Ahn, Canadian Auto Building Council/ B+H Ltd. Workers Union Architects Kay Blair, Community Mohammad Al Zaibak, CDM Debbie Baxter, LoyaltyOne MicroSkills Development Information Inc. Brian Beattie, Ministry of Centre Neemarie Alam, Frontline Citizenship and Immigration Rick Blickstead, The Wellesley Partners with Youth Network Mark Beckles, RBC Institute Naomi Alboim, Maytree Andrew Bedeau, CST Sheila Block, The Wellesley Chezlie Alexander, Bramalea Consultants Inc. Institute Community Health Centre Paul Bedford, Paul Bedford & Justin Bobb, Toronto Habon Ali, University of Toronto Associates/Ryerson University Community Housing Jehad Aliweiwi*, Thorncliffe Adriana Beemans, Working Rick Bonnette, Town of Halton Neighbourhood Office Women Community Centre Hills Ahmed Allahwala, University of Patti Bell, Blue Door Shelters Paul Born, Tamarack Institute Toronto Scarborough Scott Belton, TD Bank Group for Community Engagement Elyse Allan*, GE Canada and Acting Up Stage William Boyle, Harbourfront Jane Allen, Deloitte Howie Bender, Ministry of Centre Heather Allin, ACTRA Toronto Education Neil Bradford, University of Susan Amring, City of Avie Bennett, First Plazas Inc./ Western Ontario Mississauga McClelland & Stewart Shauna Brail, University of Colin Andersen, Ontario Power Daniel Bergeron*, L’Agence Toronto Authority Métropolitaine de Transport J. Lorne Braithwaite, Build Nichole Anderson, Business for Pierre Bergevin, Cushman & Toronto the Arts Wakefield Ltd. Allison Bramwell, University of Denise Andrea Campbell, City Gary Berman, Tricon Capital Toronto of Toronto Group Inc. His Worship Bob Bratina*, City Natasha Apollonova, Toronto Greg Beros, Richmond Hill Town of Hamilton Board of Trade Council Alejandra Bravo, Maytree Joan Atlin, Toronto Region Joe Berridge, Urban Strategies Lindsay Bridge (Sgro), Immigrant Employment Inc. McDonald’s Restaurants Council Kilian Berz*, The Boston Toronto - BridgeCo Foods Inc. Shari Austin, RBC Consulting Group Chris Brillinger, City of Toronto Gelek Badheytsang, Drebu Courtney Betty*, Betty’s Law Alan Broadbent*, Avana Capital , City of Toronto Office and Diversity Business Corporation and Maytree Cameron Bailey, Toronto Network John Brodhead, Metrolinx International Film Festival 49

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Hon. Laurel Broten, Minister of Godwin Chan, Town of Gary Crawford, City of Toronto Children and Youth Services Richmond Hill Fabio Crespin, Woodgreen Phil Brown, City of Toronto Ken Chan, Ministry of Natural Community Services Kwame Brown, YMCA of Greater Resources Brian Crombie, Mississauga Toronto Catherine Chandler-Crichlow*, Summit/Crombie Capital Pamela Bryant, University of Toronto Financial Services Partners Toronto Alliance Centre of Excellence Hon. David Crombie, Toronto David Buchbinder, Diasporic Michael Charendoff, York Lands Corporation/CivicAction Genius/DB Works University Bonnie Crombie, MP Stephen Bulger, Contact Christopher Charlesworth, John Cruickshank, The Toronto Photography Festival and Charlesworth & Company Star Stephen Bulger Gallery Bill Charnetski, Astra Zeneca Sandra Cruickshanks, The Jamil Bundalli, Kamengo Canada Inc. Ontario Trillium Foundation Cherise Burda, Pembina Karen Charnow Lior, Toronto Wendy Cukier, Ryerson Institute Workforce Innovation Group University Derek Burgess, Ministry of Alina Chatterjee, Scadding Ron Cunningham, Citizens for Infrastructure Court Community Centre Advancement of Community Teresa Burgess-Ogilvie, Safe City Anette Chawla, North York Development Mississauga Harvest Food Bank Charles Cutts, Corporation Derek Burleton*, TD Bank Norman Cheesman, Public of Massey Hall and The Roy Group Transit Association Thomson Hall Manisha Burman, RBC Ian Chodikoff, Canadian Luisa Da Rocha, Ontario Power Helen Burstyn, Ontario Trillium Architect Magazine Authority Foundation Cara Clairman, Ontario Power Simone Dalton, Toronto , Town of Oakville Generation Community Foundation Brad Butt, GTA Apartment Adam Clare, Wero Creative Nandini DasGupta*, The Boston Association Kim Clark, CBC Consulting Group Richard Butts, City of Toronto Greig Clark, Christian Resource , Environics Bev Buza, IBM Canada Ltd. Centre Research Group Ltd. Marcello Cabezas, macIDeas Colin Clarke, Toronto Youth Steven Davidson, Ministry of Craig Cal, Urban Strategies Inc. Wind Orchestra Tourism and Culture Kristle Calisto-Tavares, Karen Clarke-Whistler, TD Bank John Davidson*, Greater Toronto TakingITGlobal Group Area Economic Development Mario Calla, COSTI Immigrant Paul Clifford, Unite Here Partnership and Regional Services Charles Coffey, Canadian Centre Municipality of Halton Monica Campbell, Toronto for Diversity Rita Davies, City of Toronto Public Health Judith Cohen, SNC Lavalin Inc. John Davies, Humber College John Campbell, Waterfront Mitchell Cohen, The Daniels Institute of Technology and Toronto Corporation Advanced Learning John Campey, Social Planning Nancy Cohen, Cushman Brian Davis, National Bank Toronto Wakefield Financial Ray Cao*, Loose Button Martin Regg Cohn, The Toronto , Toronto City Geoff Cape, Evergreen Star Council Marni Cappe, M Cappe Mark Cohon, Canadian Football Brian Davis, Houselink Consulting League Community Homes Pat Capponi, Voices from the Carol Coletta*, CEOs for Cities Valerie Davis, Lysistrata Street , Toronto City Council Incorporated and Youth Can Robin Cardozo, Ontario Trillium Martin Collier, Healthy Move the World Foundation Transport Consulting and Paul de Freitas, Paul De Freitas Gary Carr, Regional Municipality Transport Futures Casting of Halton Gary Collins, Brampton Board Graeme Deans, Schulich School Beverley Carret, Art Gallery of of Trade of Business, York University Ontario Linda Coltman*, Voices From David DeForest, City of , Toronto City the Street and Toronto Brampton Council Community Housing Tenants’ Steven Del Duca, The Majora Carter*, The Majora Speakers Bureau Carpenters District Council of Carter Group Blake Connoy, Canadian Ontario John Cartwright*, Toronto & Business for Social , Toronto City York Region Labour Council Responsibility Council Lucy Casacia, Siemens Canada J. Francis Cooke, Ursataur Igor Delov, Ontario Building Ltd. Capital Management Trades Julian Caspari, Schools Without Anthony Coombes, The Neptis Rocco Delvecchio, Siemens Borders Foundation Canada Ltd. Stephen Chait, Town of Kristen Corbet, Bikes Without Joel Dembe* Markham Borders Ann Dembinski, CUPE Local 79 Mark Chamberlain*, Trivaris Sue Corke, City of Toronto Ron Dembo, Zerofootprint Ltd. and Hamilton Jobs Jean-François Courville*, Habitat Anne DeMelo, Working Women Prosperity Collaborative for Humanity Toronto and Community Centre Nick Chambers, Canadian Club Manulife Asset Management Brian Denney, Toronto Region of Toronto Chris Cowperthwaite, Schulich and Conservation Authority Larry Chan, Heidrick & School of Business 50 Struggles

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Joe Deschênes Smith, Home Susan Eng*, CARP Careesa Gee, Canadian Urban Ownership Alternatives Mark Engstrom, Royal Ontario Institute Terrie-Lynne Devonish, AON Museum Paul Genest, Ministry of Canada Inc. Dr. John R. Evans, MaRS Intergovernmental Affairs Phil Dewan, Counsel Public Discovery District Gael Gilbert, Agincourt Affairs Inc. Jeff Evenson, Canadian Urban Community Services Mohamed Dhanani Institute Association Laura di Battista*, CBC Keith Extance, Ministry of Nathan Gilbert, Laidlaw Sara Diamond, OCAD University Municipal Affairs and Housing Foundation Guilherme (Glem) Dias, Pitney Hershell Ezrin, Ezrin Brent Gilmour, Canadian Urban Bowes Communications Institute Mary Louise Dickson, Dickson, Vincent Fabiilli, Ministry of LoriAnn Girvan, Toronto MacGregor, Appell LLP Municipal Affairs & Housing Community Housing Patrick Dillon, Provincial Robert Fadel, Whirlpool Aaron GlynWilliams, Toronto Building and Construction Claire Fainer, East Metro Youth 2015 Pan/Parapan American Trades Council of Ontario Services Games Debbie Dimoff, Jane Farrow, Jane’s Walk Amy Go, Yee Hong Centre for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Morah Fenning, Ministry of Geriatric Care Cheri DiNovo, MPP Economic Development and Carol Goar*, The Toronto Star Glenn Dobbin, Royal Ontario Trade Nina Godard, Museum Luigi Ferrara, George Brown PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Iain Dobson, Real Estate Search College John Godfrey, Toronto French Corporation Lois Fine, YWCA Toronto School Debbie Douglas, Ontario Tammy Finnikin, GreenHere Sarah Goel, EdgeStone Capital Council of Agencies Serving Hon. *, Minister of Partners Immigrants Finance Aneil Gokhale, United Way Ferne Downey, ACTRA Mike Flatt, First General Toronto Terry Downey, Ontario Services Wendy Gold, OpenCity Projects Federation of Labour Jim Fleck, Business for the Arts Anne Golden, The Conference Tim Draimin, MaRS Discovery Ian Flynn Board of Canada District Dave Forster, Rick Goldring, City of Burlington Patrick Draper, Toronto Region PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Tam Goossen, Good Jobs For All Research Alliance Bill Forward, Ministry of Coalition Don Drummond*, Queen’s Municipal Affairs and Housing Suzanne Gordon, Ministry of University and TD Bank Group Robert Foster, Capital Canada Citizenship and Immigration Rob Drynan, MacLaren kiindrid Limited Patrick Gossage, Media Profile Coralie D’Souza, Ministry of Angela Fowler, Ministry of Helena Gottschling, RBC Children and Youth Services Citizenship and Immigration Drew Goursky, Regional Lorraine Duff, United Way Cameron Fowler*, BMO Municipality of Peel Toronto , Toronto City Andrew Graham, George Weston John Duffy, Strategy Corp. Inc. Council Ltd. Diane Dyson, WoodGreen Daniel Francavilla, ACCESS - Bryan Graham, Opera Atelier Community Services Allowing Children a Chance Meg Graham, Toronto Society Julie Dzerowicz, Empire Club of at Education Inc/OCAD Of Architects and superkül inc Canada University Brad Graham*, University of Rick Eagan, St. Christopher Peter Francey, Trajectory Toronto (on secondment House Linda Franklin, Colleges Ontario from the Ontario Growth Janet Ecker, Toronto Financial Eleanor Friedland, International Secretariat) Services Alliance Resource Centre for Anthony R. Graham, Wittington Tina Edan, Maytree Performing Artists Investments Ltd. Chris Edey, York University Peter Friedmann, Canada Hamlin Grange, DiversiPro Inc. Development Corp Mortgage and Housing Pamela Grant, Youth Challenge Robin Edger, University of Corporation Fund Saskatchewan Rosanna Fulford, IBM Canada Kelly Grant*, The Globe and Mail Carolyn Egan*, United Ltd. Dina Graser, Metrolinx Steelworkers, Toronto Area Sean Gadon, City of Toronto Josephine Grayson, Josephine Council and Good Green Jobs Mark Galbraith, RBC Grayson and Toronto 2015 for All *, CBC Howard Green, Service Canada Hon. Art Eggleton, Senate of Gary Gannage, Association of Ken Greenberg*, Greenberg Canada Management, Administrative Consultants Ryan Eickemeier, RealPac and Professional Crown David Griffiths, IBM Canada Ltd. Fred Eisenberger, Canadian Employees of Ontario Jeffrey Gruchy, Downsview Urban Institute Roger Garland, Toronto 2015 Services for Seniors May El-Abdallah, University of Pan/Parapan American Games Mark Guslits, HOK Architects Toronto and ArtReach Toronto Vincent Gasparro, The Green Lilian Gutmanis, Deloitte Warrington Ellacott, Whirlpool Tomorrow Fund Phillip Haid, Public Inc. Corporation Saumya Gautam, CBC/Radio- Barbara Hall, Ontario Human Rod Elliot, Global Public Affairs Canada Rights Commission Rob Elms, Green Power Action Pascal Gauthier, TD Bank Group Todd Hall, Ontario Power Inc. Joel Gauthier, AMT Generation Barbara Emanuel, Toronto Katherine Gay, RBC Peter Halsall, Halsall Associates Public Health 51

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Margaret Hancock, Family Hon. Dr. Eric Hoskins*, Shaji Kangapadan, Evergreen Service Toronto Ministry of Citizenship and Brick Works Amy Hanen, TD Bank Group Immigration Shemina Karmali, Ismaili Michelle Haney-Kileeg, Toronto Sandy Houston, Metcalf Council for Ontario Community Housing Foundation Shirin Karoubi, University of Julia Hanigsberg, Ryerson Rob Howarth, Toronto Toronto Scarborough University Neighbourhood Centres Bhutila Karpoche, City of Jeannette Hanna, Trajectory John Howe, Metrolinx Toronto George Hanus, Greater Toronto Shirley Hoy, Toronto Lands Matheesan Karunaharan, Marketing Alliance Corporation University of Toronto Chris Hanz, Orontas Clean Oil Bill Hughes, Ministry of Scarborough Chris Hardwicke, Sweeny Infrastructure Hanifa Kassam, Agincourt Sterling Finlayson & Co David Hughes, Pathways to Community Services Architects Education Canada Association Franz Hartmann, Toronto J. David Hulchanski, Cities Jenny Katz, Frontline Partners Environmental Alliance Centre, University of Toronto with Youth Network David Harvey, Toronto Park Mitzie Hunter*, Toronto Morley Katz, Management People Community Housing Matters Inc Jennifer Haskett, St. Joseph Jan Innes, Rogers Nitin Kawale*, Cisco Canada Media Communications Roger Keill, York University Brandon Hay, Black Daddies Neal Irwin, IBI Group Debora Kelly, York Region Club Emilee Irwin, Office of the Hon. (Metroland) Media Group Ted Heighington, Claremont Laurel Broten Sean Kelly*, Pfizer Canada Consulting Group Andrea Jackson, Green Heroes Christopher Kennedy, University Tom Heintzman, Bullfrog Power TV of Toronto Inc. Alex Jadad, University Health Ben Kennedy, GE Energy Andrew Heintzman, Investeco Network Sarah Ker-Hornell*, FilmOntario Capital Bob M. Jadavji, The Royal Geoff Kettel, Federation of Amanda Helderman, Ministry of Agricultural Winter Fair North Toronto Residents Finance Vani Jain, Schizophrenia Society Associations/Advocate and John Henry, City of of Ontario Consultant Bob Hepburn, The Toronto Star Ravi Jain, Why Not Theatre; Bilal Khan, Ministry of Dean Herd, City of Toronto and Hightop Productions Economic Development and University of Toronto Zahir Janmohamed, Canadian Trade Kate Heron, KPMG Centre for Diversity Ambaye Kidane, Ministry of Neil Hetherington, Habitat for Ian Jarvis, Enerlife Consulting Finance Humanity Pamela Jeffery*, Canadian David Kidd, Toronto & York Allyson Hewitt, MaRS Discovery Board Diversity Council Region Labour Council District Kristin Jenkins, Ontario Power Annie Kidder, People for Gillian Hewitt Smith*, Institute Authority Education for Canadian Citizenship Oliver Jerschow, Ministry of Roland Kiehne, CAW Local 112 Allison Hillier, Toronto Workforce Infrastructure Alison King, Media Profile Innovation Group Warren Jestin*, Scotiabank Geoffrey King, Toronto Financial John Hinds, Newspapers Seema Jethalal, Manifesto Services Alliance - Centre of Canada Matthew Jocelyn, Canadian Excellence Sheherezade Hirji, Tides Canada Stage Company John Kiru, Toronto Association Zabeen Hirji*, RBC Peter Johnson, Johnson of Business Improvement Allen Hirsh, NextGen Leaders Consulting Areas Curtis Hitsman, RBC Jim Johnston, BMO Richard Kitney, Deloitte Garrick Ho, University of His Excellence the Right Frank Klees, Progressive Toronto Scarborough Honourable *, Conservative Party of Ontario Ka-Kuen Ho, University of Governor General of Canada Amanda Klein, McMillan LLP Toronto Scarborough Tim Jones, Artscape Jacoba Knaapen, Toronto Alex Hocevar, Ontario Lottery Michael Jones, Metcalf Alliance for the Performing and Gaming Corporation Foundation Arts Glen Hodgson*, The Conference Lucille Joseph, Luminato Douglas Knight, St. Joseph Board of Canada Richard Joy, Toronto Board of Media Camilla Holland, Tarragon Trade Matthew Kofsky, Toronto Board Theatre Stanley Julien, BMO of Trade Doug Holyday*, Toronto City Marco Jungbeker, Siemens Li Koo, Ministry of the Attorney Council Canada Ltd. General John Honderich, Torstar Christina Kakaflikas, Economic Nogah Kornberg, Young Social Corporation Development, Town of Entrepreneurs of Canada Brad Honywill, Communications, Markham Richard Koroscil, Hamiltion Energy, Paperworkers Local Tess Kalinowski*, The Toronto International Airport 87M and Southern Ontario Star Carol Kotacka, Mississauga Newsmedia Guild Alexis Kane Speer, STEPS Summit and Arro Vision Claire Hopkinson, Toronto Arts Initiative Consulting Council Christopher Kang, Schools Che Kothari*, Manifesto and Pat Horgan, IBM Canada Ltd. without Borders; Hightop Hightop Studio , New Productions Patricia Koval, Torys LLP 52 Democratic Party

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Bryan Kozman, Ministry of Peter Love, Love Energy Bruce McCuaig*, Metrolinx Intergovernmental Affairs Consultants Jade McDonell, I.A.T.S.E Gopi Krishna, Scarborough Vanessa Lu*, The Toronto Star Kelly McDougald, Knightsbridge Housing Help Centre Tony Luke, Toronto Real Estate Human Capital Solutions Kris Krishnan, Deccan Digital Board Carolyn McGill-Davidson, CNW Inc. Louise Lutgens, Toronto 2015 Canada Newswire Bronwyn Krog, Toronto Pan/Parapan American Games John McGrath, The McGrath Community Housing Richard Lyall, RESCON/RCCAO Group Michael Kurts, Ministry of Peter Lyman, Nordicity Ross McGregor, University of Tourism and Culture John Paul MacDonald, Waterloo Bruce Kuwabara, Kuwabara Bombardier Inc. The Hon. Dalton McGuinty*, Payne McKenna Blumberg Andrew Macdonald, Eva’s Province of Ontario Architects Initiatives Bernie McIntyre, Toronto and Colin Lacey, Evergreen Mary Macdonald, Metcalf Region Conservation Authority Deena Ladd, The Workers’ Foundation Elizabeth McIsaac*, The Toronto Action Centre Chris MacDonald, Canadian Region Immigrant Employment Jennefer Laidley, Income Labour Congress Council Security Advocacy Centre Susan MacDonnell, United Way Susan McIsaac*, United Way Sandeep Lal, Metro Label Toronto Toronto Stephen Lam, Catholic Rob MacIsaac, Mohawk College Kwame McKenzie*, CAMH: Community Services of York Alison Mackenzie-Armes, IBM Centre for Addiction and Region Canada Ltd. Mental Health Brad Lambert, RBC Peter MacLeod, MASS LBP David McKeown, Toronto Public Anne Lamont, Career Edge Beryl MacLeod, Toronto Youth Health Organization Wind Orchestra Randy McLean, City of Toronto Frances Lankin*, Ontario’s David MacLeod, City of Toronto Susan McLean, Sustainable Social Assistance Review Heather MacVicar, City of Development Technology Hayley Lapalme Toronto Canada Genevieve Lavertu, Ministry of Tinashe Mafukidze*, Joyce McLean, Toronto Hydro Economic Development and Polycultural Immigrant & Corporation Traderonic of Canada Ltd. Community Services Dan McLean, Cisco Systems , Toronto City Medhat Mahdy*, YMCA of Canada Co. Council Greater Toronto Bernice McLeod, Ontario Colleen Layton, Michigan May Mak, Toronto Police Service Trillium Foundation Municipal League Mark Maloney, The Carpenters Rodney McPherson, TD Bank Jonathan Lebi, Ministry of Union - Ontario Group Aboriginal Affairs Andy Manahan, Residential & Sarah McQuarrie, Office of Sheldon Leiba, Mississauga Civil Construction Alliance of Francophone Affairs Board of Trade Ontario Sean Meagher, Public Interest Jason Lem, Ministry of Gwen Manderson, Town of Strategy and Communications Community and Social Richmond Hill Inc. Services Joe Manion, City of Toronto Paris Meilleur, Ministry of Brad Lepp, Luminato Gillian Manning, TD Bank Group Health Stephanie Levesque, Canadian Costin Manu, Rose Theatre Jeff Melanson*, Canada’s Labour Congress Brampton National Ballet School Steven Levy, MMPI Canada Allan Mark, Ernst & Young Amanuel Melles, United Way Aviva Levy, University of Toronto Canada Toronto Lesley Lewis, Ontario Science Claudia Marsales*, Town of Matthew Mendelsohn, Mowat Centre Markham Centre Ruth Lewkowicz, Toronto Region Roberto Dante Martella, Grano Mary Menzies, Regional Research Alliance Restaurant Municipality of Durham Corey Libfeld, The Conservatory Bianca Martella, grano Louroz Mercader, Mississauga Group Deborah Martin-Downs, Toronto Youth Games Zvi Lifshiz, Invest Toronto and Region Conservation Dave Meslin*, Pigeonhat Eva Ligeti, Clean Air Partnership Authority Peter Miasek, Transport Action Donna Lindell*, Playbook Judy Matthews, University of Ontario Communications Toronto , Toronto City Council Gave Lindo, CBC Jacquie Maund, Ontario Jenn Miller, Ontario Trillium James Little, RBC Campaign 2000 & Social Foundation Michael Littlejohn*, IBM Reform, Family Service Eric Miller, University of Toronto Corporation Toronto Lou Milrad, Greater Toronto Shannon Litzenberger, Toronto Diane McArthur-Rodgers, Marketing Alliance Arts Foundation Ministry of Municipal Affairs & James Milway, Institute for Han Liu, University of Toronto Housing Competitiveness & Prosperity Scarborough Gord McBrien, Ontario Power Todd Minerson, White Ribbon John Livey, Town of Markham Generation Campaign Alison Loat, Samara Canada Joan McCalla, Cisco Systems Denzil Minnan-Wong, Toronto John Longbottom, IBM Canada Canada Inc. City Council Ltd. Her Worship Hazel McCallion*, David Mirvish, Ed Mirvish Gayle Longley, RBC City of Mississauga Enterprises Sandra Lopes, Maytree Caitlin McClung, Office of the Faduma Mohamed*, Labour Community Services 53

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Marie Moliner, Department of Darren O’Donnell, Mammalian Brenda Pipitone, George Brown Canadian Heritage Diving Reflex/The Tendency College Lidia Monaco, St. Christopher Group Karen Pitre, The Lonsdale Group House Lekan Olawoye, For Youth Inc. John Montesano, Bond Paving & Initiative Leslie Plant, IBM Canada Ltd. Construction Nan Oldroyd, Loblaw Companies Joanne Plaxton, Cabinet Office Robert Montgomery, First Limited Elliot Pobjoy, Ministry of Maximilian Associates Inc Michael Oliphant, Daily Bread Citizenship and Immigration Tonika Morgan*, Starting Fresh Food Bank Michael Polanyi, Ontario NDP Community Initiatives The Rev. Dr. Robert Oliphant, Allison Pond, ACCES Fred Morley*, Greater Halifax MP Employment Partnership Ratna Omidvar*, Maytree Andrew Posluns, Ministry of Hugh Morris, The Jonah Group Bob Onyschuk, Gowling LaFleur Transportation Rosalyn Morrison, Toronto Henderson LLP Marlene Potter, Marlene Potter Community Foundation Dwaine Osbourne*, Jamaican & Associates Paul Morse, Cushman & Canadian Association Rosemarie Powell, Jane Finch Wakefield Ltd. Devon Ostrom, Beautiful City Family and Community Centre Mazyar Mortazavi*, TAS Robert Ouellette, Clean Growth Gary Power, Whirlpool Canada DesignBuild Funds LP Patrick Moyle, Regional Michael-Rey Pablo, General Arvin Prasad, Region of Peel Municipality of Halton Electric Hena Prasanna, Cisco Canada Jennifer Muir, RBC Gail Paech, Ministry of Courtney Pratt, Toronto Region Dr. Alok Mukherjee, Toronto Economic Development and Research Alliance Police Services Board Trade Merissa Preston, Hammer Shahi Muktadir, University of Steve Paikin*, TVO Heads, Central Ontario Toronto Scarborough Hari Panday, PanVest Capital Building Trades Steve Munro, stevemunro.ca Corporation Janice Price, Luminato Colette Murphy, Metcalf Maria Papadopoulos, York Rob Prichard, Torys LLP Foundation University Stephanie Procyk, Open Policy Angela Murphy, The Globe and Nicholas Parker, CleanTech Ontario Mail Group LLC/Parker Venture Vivian Prokop, Canadian Youth Tricia Myatt, Town of Richmond Management Business Foundation Hill , City of Susan Promane, Whirlpool Leah Myers, Ministry of Toronto Canada LP Community and Social Anil Patel, Framework Earl Provost, City of Toronto Services Adaoma Patterson, Regional Chisanga Puta-Chekwe, Natasha Mytnowych, The Municipality of Peel Ministry of Citizenship and Canadian Stage Company Lynn Patterson, RBC Immigration Nishanthini (Nisha) Sylvia Patterson*, York Region Olu Quamina, Alexandra Park Nagaratnam, City of Toronto Peter Paul, Maytree Community Centre Paul Nagpal, Strateva Partners, Alan Paul, Toronto Port Katie Rabinowicz, Centre for Inc. Authority City Ecology Keiko Nakamura, Toronto Yezdi Pavri, Deloitte Hon. , MP Community Housing Hilary Pearson, Philanthropic Tom Rand*, MaRS Discovery Karen Nasmith, planningAlliance Foundations of Canada District Jonathan Naymark, Venture Mike Pedersen*, TD Bank Group Lola Rasminsky, Beyond the Nancy Nazer, TD Bank Group Gil Penalosa, 8-80 Cities Box™ Naheed Nenshi*, City of Dave Penfold, Ministry of Taylor Raths, Yonge-Dundas Winnie Ng*, Good Jobs for Transportation Square All Coalition and Ryerson Joe Pennachetti, City of Toronto Salima Rawji, SmartCentres University Scott Perchall, United Way Peter Reed, Central Ontario Chi Nguyen Toronto Building Trades Marcia Nickerson, Kathleen Perchaluk, United Way Dr. Vidoll Regisford, Goodwill imagineNATIVE Film + Media Toronto Dylan Reid, Spacing Magazine Arts Festival Cleimore Perdon, University of Marlon Reid, TD Bank Group Stephanie Nihon, Sport Focus Toronto Scarborough Karen Renkema, Ontario Road Jasvir Nijjar, United Way Toronto Francine Périnet*, Varley Art Builders’ Association Gordon Nixon*, RBC Gallery of Markham Kenn Richard, Native Child and Robert Nolan, City of Toronto Ann Peters, Maytree Family Services of Toronto Phyllis Novak, SKETCH Working Matt Petersen, CIBC Noelle Richardson, Ministry of Arts Ben Peterson, Journalists for Government Services Tobias Novogrodsky, City of Human Rights Bob Richardson, Devon Group Toronto Lynne Peterson, Ministry of Dana Richardson, Ministry of Olivia Nuamah*, Atkinson Municipal Affairs and Housing Municipal Affairs and Housing Foundation Larry Petovello, City of Chris Rickett, Toronto and Julius Nyarko, Ministry of Mississauga Region Conservation Authority Economic Development and Judy Pfeifer, Hill and Knowlton Tim Rider, RBC Trade Canada Sabra Ripley, Breakin Lawson Oates, City of Toronto Marisa Piattelli, Waterfront Convention/BeautifulCity.ca Paul Oberman, Woodcliffe Toronto Nada Ristich, BMO Landmark Properties Susan Pigott, CAMH: Centre for Dr. Pamela Ritchie, University of 54 Allan O’Dette, GlaxoSmithKline Addiction and Mental Health Ontario Institute of Technology

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Sandra Roberts, Deloitte Heather Schoeler, Intact Janelle St. Omer, TD Bank Leslie Roberts*, Global Toronto Financial Corporation Group Dean Roberts, Salesforce.com Peter Schrum, Bombardier John Stackhouse, The Globe , Toronto City Transportation Canada Inc. and Mail Council Per Scott, RBC John Stapleton, Open Policy James Robinson, Downtown Rosanna Scotti, City of Toronto Ontario Yonge BIA Gabrielle Scrimshaw, RBC Jamison Steeve, Office of the Jamie Robinson, United Way Shauna Seabrook, University Premier of Ontario Toronto Health Network - McEwen Jeffrey Steiner, Morguard Gerry Rocchi, Green Power Centre for Regenerative Corporation Action Inc. Medicine Nicole Stewart, City of Toronto Ron Rock, Boys & Girls Club of Robin Sears, Navigator Graeme Stewart, ERA Architects East Scarborough Barbara Sellers-Young, York Inc Marlon Rodrigues, Polar Mobile University, Centre for Fine Arts Walter Stewart, Toronto Region Steve Romanyshyn, Ministry of Paulette Senior, YWCA Canada Research Alliance Economic Development and Neil Sentance, OPS Green Office Caitlin Stidwill, United Way Trade Ashton Sequeira*, Centerplate Toronto Jesse Rosenberg, University of John Sewell Karen Stintz, Toronto City Toronto Freba Shahsamand, Ministry of Council George Ross, Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration Kevin Stolarick, Unversity of Research and Innovation Uzma Shakir, City of Toronto Toronto Rocco Rossi, Progressive , Council of Jini Stolk, Creative Trust Conservative Party of Ontario Agencies Serving South Asians Aleks Stosic George Roter, Engineers Without Michael Shapcott, The Wellesley Tom Stricker, RESCON Borders Institute Michael Sullivan, Strategic Mary Rowe, Centre for City Helena Shimeles, Young Counsel Ecology Diplomats Karen Sun, Chinese Canadian Angela Roy, Canada Mortgage Lyle Shipley, Canada Green National Council Toronto and Housing Corporation Building Council - Greater Chapter John Ruffolo*, OMERS Strategic Toronto Chapter Karim Sunderji, Ismaili Council Investments and Inkef Capital Maureen Shuell, Canadian for Ontario Tanya Rumble, Heart and Stroke Urban Transit Association Niko Sundrica, Cooksville Foundation Myer Siemiatycki, Ryerson Economic Development Jacqueline Ryan, RBC University Corporation John Ryerson, Town of John Simcoe, Tonya Surman, Centre for Social Markham PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Innovation Ned Sabev, City of Toronto David Simmonds, Navigator Ltd. Michael Sutherland, Metrolinx Anne Sado, George Brown Tim Simmonds, City of Nada Sutic, Bentall Kennedy College Sharon Simpson, Labour John Sutton, TalentOyster David Sajecki, Metrolinx Community Services Mladen Svigir, Harvard Business Sonia Sakamoto-Jog, Toronto Preethy Sivakumar, Toronto & School Reel Asian International Film York Region Labour Council Rob Swaffield, Ministry of Festival Peter Sloly, Toronto Police Economic Development and Carlos Salazar, Municipality of Service Trade Melanie Smith, City of Toronto Melissa Tapper, South Riverdale Neda Salehirad, Ministry of Regan Smith, City of Toronto Community Health Centre Finance Mike Smith, Communications Lynda Taschereau, City of Devyani Saltzman, Luminato Energy and Paperworkers - Toronto Alnasir Samji, Alderidge Local 25 Jasmine Tehara, TD Bank Group Consulting Inc. Ian Smith, Oliver Wyman Delta Tina Tehranchian, Assante Frances Sanderson, Nishnawbe Brian Smith, WoodGreen Capital Management Ltd. Homes Inc. Community Services Wilson Teixeira, Able Tracey Sandilands, Pride Donna Smith, Career Bridge Translations Ltd Toronto George Smitherman* James Temple, PwC Foundation Samantha Sannella, Design Brian Smithies, Ministry of Sante Tesolin, Scotiabank Exchange Government Services Helen Tewolde, City of Toronto Tina Sarellas, RBC Janet Son, Hightop Studio Linda Theron, Salon Voltaire Rana Sarkar, Rawlings Atlantic; Kash Sood, Manufacturer & Piragal Thiru, Regional Canada-India Business Council Importers Municipality of York Mark Sarner, Manifest Pradeep Sood*, XactScribe Peggy Thoen, RBC Communications Inc. Inc. and Ontario Chamber of Bill Thomas, KPMG LLP Sarah Saso, Manulife Financial Commerce Michael Thompson, Toronto City Nick Saul, The Stop Community Andrew Soren, BMO Council Food Centre Andre Sorensen, University of Melissa Thomson, Ministry of Barney Savage, CAMH: Centre Toronto Scarborough Municipal Affairs and Housing for Addiction & Mental Health Alfonso Soriano, Ontario Julius Tiangson, Gateway Centre His Worship *, Financing Authority for New Canadians Town of Markham Vito Spatafora, Richmond Hill Wendy Tilford, Ministry of Athina Schloo, RBC Town Council Economic Development and Phil Schmitt, Green Power James St. John, Central Ontario Trade Action Inc. Building Trades 55

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region Karen Tisch, Toronto Arts Michael Went, Ministry of Brian Zeiler-Kligman, Toronto Council Foundation Municipal Affairs and Housing Board of Trade Peter Tolnai, Orchard Capital Kevin West, SkyLaw Professional Tom Zizys, Zizys Consulting/ Group Corporation Metcalf Foundation Norma Tombari, RBC Shelley White, United Way of Shelley Zuckerman, North York Lesli Tomlin, Department of Peel Region and Mississauga Community House Finance Summit Sherri Torjman, Caledon Barbara Whitmer, Toronto Unless otherwise noted, all titles Institute of Social Policy Region Research Alliance given are as they were at the Lisa Torjman, SiG@MaRS Mary Wiens*, CBC time of the Summit. Discovery District Henry Wiercinski, McCarthy John Tory*, CivicAction Tétrault LLP Jennifer Tory*, RBC Ted Wigdor, Certified General Mark Towhey, City of Toronto Accountants of Ontario Ian Troop*, Toronto 2015 Pan/ Faye Wightman, Vancouver Parapan Am Games Foundation Peter Tsykov, Toronto Moscow Carol Wilding*, Toronto Board City News of Trade Debbie Underhill, Diversity Gary Wilkins, Toronto Region Media Services (a div. of Conservation Authority Multimedia Nova. Corp.) Sue Wilkinson, Jane/Finch Mike Van Soelen, Playbook Community Family Centre Communications Peter Wilkinson, Manulife Susan Vardon, United Way Financial Toronto Mike Williams, City of Toronto Adam Vaughan, Toronto City Ray Williams, National Bank Council Financial Lloyd Vaughan, L.T.D. & Lois Willson, Humber College Associations Inc. Tatum Wilson, Ministry of Kamalesh Visavadia*, Region of Health Peel Geoffrey A. Wilson, Toronto Port Paul Visser, Town of Oakville Authority Niranjan Vivekanandan, RBC Karen Wilson, City of Toronto Hema Vyas, Ministry of Anthony Wilson-Smith*, Training, Colleges and Manulife Universities Richard Wiltshire, Accenture Zenia Wadhwani, Toronto 2015 Management Consulting Pan/Parapan American Games Sharon Wingfelder, CIBC Rinaldo Walcott, University of Chris Winter, Conservation Toronto Council of Ontario Ross Wallace, AstraZeneca Catherine Winter, Maytree Canada Inc. Brigitte Witkowski, Mainstay Mary-Beth Wallace, Ministry of Housing Children and Youth Services Jillian Witt, Tides Canada Frank Walwyn, Canadian David A. Wolfe*, University of Association of Black Lawyers/ Toronto WeirFoulds LLP May Wong, Omega Foundation Kim Warburton, GE Canada Eva Wong Scanlan, The Keith Ward, Ontario Non-Profit Meeting House; ELN Toronto Housing Association Homecoming Matt Warwick, University of Leslie Woo*, Metrolinx Toronto Linda Wood, Toronto Public Laura Watts, Social and Health Enterprise Development Cathy Worden, Office of the Innovations Premier of Ontario T.V. (Ty) Watts, L.T.D. & Susan Wright, Toronto Arts Associations Inc. Council Clinton P. Wayne, Investors Amina Yassin-Omar, Art Starts Group Financial Services Inc. Nick Yeo, Uncluttered John Weatherup, CUPE Local Consulting 4400 Mike Yorke, Carpenters Local 27 Mary Webb, Scotiabank Eric Young, E-Y-E The Social Jane Wedlock, York Region Projects Studio Alliance to End Homelessness Alice Young, Ministry of Marc Weiner, Tandem Expansion Citizenship and Immigration Fund Bill Young, Social Capital Dr. Harvey Weingarten, Higher Partners Education Quality Council of David E. Yundt, Plexxus Ontario Daniele Zanotti*, United Way Cam Weldon, City of Toronto York Region Anthony Wensley, University of Margaret Zeidler, Urbanspace 56 Toronto Mississauga Property Group Ltd.

CivicAction – Breaking Boundaries: Time to Think and Act Like a Region CivicAction Supporters

The Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance is a not-for-profit organization. Our day-to-day operations are only made possible through the generous support of our ongoing sponsors. We extend our sincere thanks to the following organizations and corporations:

We are also grateful to the companies and organizations that In-kind Donors support DiverseCity: The Greater Toronto Leadership Project, the Emerging Leaders Network and Greening Greater Toronto. For a full • The Boston Consulting Group list of these sponsors, please visit the initiatives’ websites: • Counsel PR www.diversecitytoronto.ca • Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP www.elnonline.ca • Trajectory www.greeninggreatertoronto.ca Artists at the Summit Sponsors

• Art Gallery of Ontario • Canada’s National Ballet School • Canadian Opera Company • Harbourfront Centre • Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts & Creativity • National Ballet of Canada • Royal Conservatory of Music • Toronto Arts Council • Toronto International Film Festival • Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Carbon Neutral and Zero Waste Event

The Greater Toronto Summit 2011 was a certified Carbon Neutral and Zero Waste Event. CivicAction is proud to support sustainability through conservation, waste diversion and carbon offsetting.

Thank you to our Carbon Neutral Sponsor, Green Power Action, the manager of the Greening Canada Fund, for providing the carbon credits to offset the Summit’s residual environmental footprint. Carbon offset credits were sourced from green projects across the Greater Toronto region. Summit Sponsors:

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