LAWRENCE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR POLICY AND MANAGEMENT Annual Report 2010 Bridging business strategy and government policy. contentsAnnual Re port Director’s Report Director’s Report Meet the Lawrence Centre Meet the Lawrence Centre Lawrence National Centre Student Advisory Council Outreach Outreach Research Lawrence National Centre Advisory Council Lawrence Centre Advisory Council 2010 Bridging business strategy and government policy. "The Lawrence Centre continues its efforts in bridging the gap between government, business and academia while focusing on the development of sound public policy." Dianne Cunningham Director LAWRENCE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR POLICY AND MANAGEMENT Bridging business strategy and government policy. directo r’s report Message from the Director Dear Advisory Council colleagues, Our Advisory Council’s inaugural meeting took place at the Lawrence National Centre, Richard Ivey School of Business, on February 8 th 2005, more than five years ago! Our Centre continues its efforts in bridging the gap between government, business and academia while focusing on the development of sound public policy. To build a constituency for change, we believe that Canadians must be educated on issues of competitiveness and the economic and political challenges facing our world. It has been an exciting and productive at Manulife Financial in Toronto on year. We have provided the highlights March 25 th . It was a hugely successful of our accomplishments and activities event where many ambassadors and over the past twelve months and are leaders in business, government and encouraged by the progress towards academia met to discuss issues at the new goals. The 201 0-2011 term top of the G-20 agenda. promises to be just as stimulating and, The Lawrence Centre continues to as always, we look forward to your grow and we are most grateful for your valuable input. ongoing support. We are grateful to our Lawrence Centre Thank you. team and Advisory Council whose efforts contributed to the success of Sincerely, numerous events over the past year. We extend our thanks to Thomas d’Aquino, Jalynn Bennett, Don Campbell, and Blake Goldring for their participation in the G-20 Leaders’ Symposium hosted Dianne Cunningham Annual Report 2010 1 Bridging business strategy and government policy. key priorities for the Coming Year The Lawrence Centre Staff and Student We continue to focus on website An effective dissemination strategy is Advisory Council continue to prepare development, communications, and an important part of the work we do at for the 201 0-2011 term. Ambitious relevant public policy research in the Lawrence Centre. Meetings with plans are in place for two Lawrence concert with our Chair, Thomas representatives from various ministries Centre workshops. The Water d’Aquino, and Lawrence Centre related to our work in Climate Change, Innovation Forum will be held on Advisory Council, in coordination Finance, Food and Health, Green January 23-24, 2011. Funding has been with the Communications department Energy, G-20 Issues, Transportation and secured through the Ontario Ministry of at Ivey . Water are scheduled for the upcoming Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, months. from Agriculture and Agri-food Canada’s Growing Forward fund. A follow-up workshop on Transportation is also planned for Spring 2011 to build on the work of our 2008 workshop The Ontario - Québec Continental Gateway and Trade Corridor: Developing Competitive and Sustainable Transportation Policy . Consultations have begun with related government ministries and industries and we look “If we could really achieve forward to your guidance. more cooperation between government and business, we would see a quantum leap in economic performance and productivity.” We are planning to host a financial- policy event similar to our Redefining Jack Lawrence the Canada-US Relationship in the FOUNDER Obama Era forum in 2009 and the LAWRENCE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR POLICY AND MANAGEMENT G-20 Leaders’ Symposium in 2010 and we welcome your ideas. Annual Report 2010 2 Bridging business strategy and government policy. highlights Achievements and Events October 2009 - November 2010 I On October 5, 2 01 0, the National I On September 28, 2010, Dianne I The Lawrence Centre and Agri- Round Table on the Environment and Cunningham, as Director of the Food@Ivey launched the report, the Economy (NRTEE), in collaboration Lawrence Centre, presented at an Food and Health: Advancing the with the Royal Canadian Geographical Ivey Alumni Association Ottawa Policy Agenda at the McGill Brain- Society (RCGS), launched a special Chapter event. Tiff Macklem, Senior to-Society conference (June 2010) in edition of Canadian Geographic on Deputy Governor of the Bank of Toronto. The report followed from climate change, sponsored in part by Canada was the keynote speaker our Food and Health workshop the Lawrence National Centre. A and participants addressed the (March 2010) which brought together reception, jointly hosted by the question “Who should lead the NRTEE and RCGS was held at the productivity revolution, government Canadian Museum of Nature in or industry?” The session was Ottawa. Keynote speakers included moderated by Bill Lawson; Associate Governor General David Johnston, Professor of Finance (retired) Sprott Environment Minister Jim Prentice, School of Business. and Astronaut Bob Thirsk . Invited I Dianne Cunningham presented on participants included University of Western Ontario President, Amit “The Importance of High-speed Rail Chakma and Dianne Cunningham as in Canada” at the Southwest Region a member of the NRTEE. Public Policy conference (August 2010) in London with more than 70 participants and local MPs and MPPs, where relevant and visionary public policy was explored. leaders in business, government and academia to discuss opportunities to develop an integrated health and food policy framework. The report can be found online at : http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/lawrencecentre/ Amit Chakma David Johnston food_health/default.htm . Annual Report 2010 3 Bridging business strategy and government policy. highlights Achievements and Events CONTINUED I Lawrence Centre staff Melissa Harris Renewable Energy in Ontario , was I On April 12, 2010, Dianne and Chris Popovich participated in submitted to the Ontario Centres of Cunningham addressed the London the launch of the National Round Excellence (OCE), one of the Downtown Rotary Club at the Table on the Environment and the workshop sponsors . London Convention Centre on the Economy’s water report Changing I On April 13, 2010, Dianne timely and important issue of high- Currents , at the Inaugural Canadian Cunningham, as Director of the speed rail and the Ontario-Quebec Water Summit (June 2010) in Toronto Lawrence Centre, attended a launch trade corridor. The corridor is a with more than 300 attendees. for The University of Western significant infrastructure priority for I The Lawrence Centre supervised the Ontario’s new Canada-U.S. Institute the City of London and South- research of two MBA students, Rohan in Washington, DC. The focus of the western Ontario and will be the Belliappa and Adam Bortolussi, for launch was the release of the focus of our 2011 workshop. the Cross Enterprise Leadership Institute’s first study entitled I On April 7, 2010, Lawrence Centre Research Course. As part of the “Moving Closer or Drifting Apart? staff participated in a joint University dissemination plan for our April Assessing the State of Public Opinion of Western Ontario, Faculty of 2009 workshop Making Green on the U.S.-Canada Relationship,” Engineering and Trojan Technologies Energy Happen: Policy and Priorities , co-authored by Cameron Anderson workshop on Water Research. their report entitled An Overview of and Laura Stephenson. Guests Participants included John Carey, included representatives from the Director General of the Water Canadian embassy and UWO alumni Science and Technology Directorate, from the Washington, DC area . for Environment Canada, Engineering Dean, Adam Hrymak, and Linda Gowman from Trojan Technologies. As a member of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, Dianne presented sugges- tions from their current research program on water issues as they Rohan Belliappa relate to Canada’s Natural Resources. Annual Report 2010 4 Bridging business strategy and government policy. highlights Achievements and Events CONTINUED I On March 29-30, 2 01 0, Dianne I The Lawrence National Centre partnered with The Norman Paterson School of Inter- Cunningham and David Sparling, national Affairs (NPSIA ) and Thomas d’Aquino, President and CEO of Intercounsel Ltd. Ivey Chair of Agri-Food Innovation to host a Symposium entitled The G-20 and the Prospects for Global Growth, Financial and Regulation , co-hosted a Reform, Trade Liberalisation, Climate Change Consensus and Energy Security . workshop entitled Food and Health: Advancing the Policy Agenda . This The Symposium was held on March 25, 2010, in Toronto and addressed key cross-disciplinary workshop, with issues at the top of the G-20’s agenda. more than 80 leaders from govern- ment, business and academia, focused on how Canadians’ health can be improved through new research, products, and communca- tions. Workshop recommendations are being presented to government and industry to identify where policies and strategies can be improved . This is a timely issue as the next phase of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Growing Forward strategy Speakers included Mark Carney (Governor of the Bank of Canada), Leonard