BUILDING BACK BETTER: Forging a post-pandemic social contract that works for all

A weekly series of on-line moderated discussions between August 25 and September 10, 2020

2020 Queen’s International Institute on Social Policy conference will explore how Canada and other OECD countries can rethink and reset critical building blocks of social policy in light of the fault lines exposed by the current crisis.

SESSION 8 - Citizens’ views: Social distancing or social solidarity?

Have citizens’ personal priorities changed as a result of the pandemic crisis? Have their views on the respective roles and responsibilities of individuals, government, business, communities changed?  Have levels of trust in institutions been altered? What are the implications for public policy and governance?

Speakers:

• Ben Page, Chief Executive, IPSOS-Mori, UK
• David Coletto, CEO, Abacus Data

Moderator: Jennifer Ditchburn, Editor, Policy Options, Institute for Research on Public Policy