The Empire Club of Canada
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
The Empire Club of Canada Presents:
Borderline: How Canada Can Matter More to the United States – and the Rest of the World
Are Canadians prepared for a new relationship with the United States?
No matter who becomes president after the upcoming U.S. election, Canada needs a plan. While our economies are deeply intertwined, Canada is heavily exposed to the populist headwinds in the U.S., and to larger geopolitical tensions sweeping the world.
The Public Policy Forum and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy have embarked on a project — called Matter More — to inject fresh policy thinking into the Canada-U.S. relationship. PPF President Edward Greenspon and Janice Stein, Founding Director of Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, will announce how Canada can leverage its strengths and investments to ensure the country is resilient in the face of political and policy shifts, and geopolitical risks. The discussion will be moderated by award-winning business journalist Amanda Lang, Anchor, Taking Stock at CTV.
Join us at the Empire Club of Canada on September 18th, 2024, to explore how the evolving U.S. landscape might affect your business. The Public Policy Forum will unveil the latest insights from their new report, entitled “Matter More: A Canadian strategy for a changing United States”, during this event. The Empire Club is proud to welcome the Public Policy Forum to its podium.
Featuring special remarks by Drew Fagan, Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
Download the latest Public Policy Forum “Matter More: A Canadian strategy for a changing United States” HERE
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Award-winning business journalist Amanda Lang has been covering business in North America for 25 years. Lang is the host of Taking Stock, a weekly national television program airing across multiple Bell Media networks including BNN Bloomberg, CP24 and CTV News Channel. Taking Stock also airs as a weekly podcast and on the iHeart radio network. Lang is also a regular contributor to The Hub, a daily news and analysis platform. She was previously host of Bloomberg Markets, a global program airing in Canada on BNN Bloomberg and on the Bloomberg Television network globally. Prior to that, Lang was CBC’s senior business correspondent, reporting for its flagship nightly news program, The National, and host of The Exchange with Amanda Lang, a daily business program airing on CBC News Network. For five years before that, Lang hosted The Lang and O’Leary Exchange, with Kevin O’Leary. And prior to that the pair co-hosted SqueezePlay, on BNN, for 6 years.
Lang studied Architecture at the University of Manitoba, before becoming a journalist. Her first job in journalism was for the Globe and Mail, and subsequently Lang joined the Financial Post newspaper, where she became the paper’s New York correspondent. In New York she made the leap to television, where she first was part of the team that launched BNN and before long wound up at CNN as a reporter and anchor.
Lang is a member of the board of directors of Covenant House Toronto, the largest agency in Canada serving homeless and at-risk youth.
Lang is also a best-selling author. The Power of Why (HarperCollins, October 2012) explores the connection between curiosity and success. The Beauty of Discomfort (HarperCollins, April 2017) examines how difficult change can be, and set out strategies for how to achieve it.
Edward Greenspon has worked at the intersection of journalism and public policy for more than 30 years. Before becoming President and CEO of the Public Policy Forum, Ed was a journalist with The Globe and Mail, Bloomberg News and newspapers in Western Canada. He is also the author of two books on Canadian politics, policy and public opinion.
At the Globe, Ed specialized in politics, economics, foreign affairs and business while serving as Editor-in-Chief, Ottawa bureau chief, European correspondent and managing editor of the Report on Business. He was an early proponent of digital transformation as founding editor of globeandmail.com.
At Bloomberg News, he was Editor-at-Large for Canada and global managing editor for energy, environment and commodities, a group situated in 22 countries on six continents.
Ed is the author of Double Vision: The Inside Story of the Liberals in Power, which won the 1996 Douglas Purvis Award for best public policy book, and of Searching for Certainty: Inside the New Canadian Mindset. He was a winner of PPF’s Hyman Solomon Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism. In 2010, he chaired a 13-person panel for the Canadian International Council that produced a bold international policy strategy called Open Canada: A Global Positioning Strategy for a Networked Age.
Ed holds a combined honours degree in journalism and political science from Carleton University and was a Commonwealth Scholar at the London School of Economics, earning an M.Sc. (Econ.) with distinction.
Janice Gross Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate and has received Honorary Doctorates of Laws from universities in Canada and abroad. She is also an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Kissinger Center at SAIS at Johns Hopkins University. Her current research focuses on technology and public policy in the context of great power competition. Last year, she co-chaired the National Advisory Committee on Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy for the Minister of Global Affairs.
Drew Fagan is a professor at the Munk School. He teaches in Munk graduate degree programs and leads other university initiatives, including as co-director of the Ontario 360 policy initiative and as special advisor to the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities.
Drew is also a senior advisor at McMillan Vantage Policy Group, a public affairs firm affiliated with the national business law firm McMillan. As a public policy advisor, his clients have included departments and agencies with all three orders of government, as well as Indigenous organizations and public interest startups.
Drew previously spent 12 years in leadership positions with the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario.
With Ontario, he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport, with responsibility for the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games. With the federal government, he was Assistant Deputy Minister for strategic policy and planning at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada).
Before becoming a public servant in 2004, he worked at The Globe and Mail, including as parliamentary bureau chief, associate editor of Report on Business and Washington correspondent.
Drew writes for publications such as The New York Times and The Globe and Mail, and provides analysis of national and international issues for the BBC, Al Jazeera, the CBC and others. He is a board member of Waterfront Toronto, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall and the Blue Mountain Blue Festival.
Drew holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University and a Master of Arts degree from Western University. He received his ICD.D designation from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, in 2017.
