Speakers:
Margaret Biggs, Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy

Daniel Brant, Matthews Fellow iN Global Public Policy, Adjunct Professor

Hugh Segal, Matthews Fellow in Global Public Policy, Director, Centre for International and Defence Policy

At a time where anti-democratic authoritarian forces around the world, from Eastern Europe, to Asia and Africa and parts of the American body politic, are gaining greater influence and control, how do proponents of liberal democracy, reconciliation and the international rules based order advance their cause?

In Canada, we need to be conscious of authoritarian colonialism in our own history at the same time as we address new international authoritarian threats worldwide. History, both ancient and recently passed, should provide us lessons on what effects and consequences authoritarianism has on society. First Nations governments in our country have been subject to essentially an authoritarian regime via legal instruments such as the Indian Act since 1867. If we look at the impact of hegemonic controls on a society of people using First Nations as the example, the consequences are clear. The issue now is what have we learned and are we doomed to repeat it at a much larger scale and what are we prepared to learn from these lessons.

Looking outward, successive Canadian governments have placed the promotion of democracy and human rights at the core of Canadian foreign policy. However the history of promoting democracy in other countries has a mixed track record and tarnished reputation in some cases. Given the stakes, what role can or should Canada play in supporting democractic forces abroad? What lessons have we learned from the past that could be put into practice now?

On November 10, 2022, a panel of Matthews Fellows – Daniel Brant, Margaret Biggs, and Hugh Segal – will explore autocratic threats, at home and abroad, and potential Canadian responses

LIVE STREAM IS NOT AVAILABLE.  A video of this event will be made available at a future date.

This year the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto and the School of Policy Studies at the Queen’s University will host the 26th annual International Institute on Social Policy: Next Wave: Challenges and Opportunities for Social Policy in the Coming Decade.

For over two years, the COVID-19 pandemic high-jacked the policy agenda and necessarily focused attention on responses to the emergency. Meanwhile, new and enduring social, political, and economic challenges have been gathering force. The Munk School and Queen’s University are joining forces to bring together leading international and Canadian experts to consider whether and how we need to reform, or even transform, Canadian social policy for a more resilient and successful future.

• October 31, 2022 in-person: Launch conference at the Munk School on meta challenges and policy choices facing Canada and other OECD countries (registration fee applies). Register for the conference now.
   
• November 2 to 18, 2022 virtual webinars: Online policy seminars on major areas of social policy most in flux and ripe for rethinking (free registration).  See the full list of seminars on the conference website.

Lecturer:
Dr. David Walker, Professor, Department of Family Medicine and School of Policy6 Studies

Canaries and Coal Mines – the ER as ultimate healthcare performance metric

Canada’s Emergency Departments and those that need them are in trouble. Ambulances are lined up to offload patients, wait-times to be seen exceed standards, care is being provided in hallways, patients requiring a hospital stay remain for hours and days on gurneys in the department, and staff shortages result in some departments reducing access or closing.

These symptoms, however, are the result of disorders both upstream and downstream to EDs which must be identified and addressed in order that emergency care can be fully effective. A diagnostic and therapeutic policy exercise will be discussed.

This is a free, public event that will be available to in-person and via Zoom for online viewers. 

Registration is required for ONLINE VIEWERS only.

Lecturer:
Naomi Alboim, Distinguished Fellow, School of Policy Studies

Canada’s Response to Refugee Crises: What have we learned?

Responding to a refugee crisis is never easy and each refugee movement comes with its own complexities and challenges. What have we learned from the way Canada has responded to the Indochinese, Syrian, Afghan and Ukrainian crises that could inform our responses going forward? What are some elements that are key  to success?

This is a free, public event.  This event will be live-streamed via ZOOM

REGISTER NOW

Biography:

Naomi Alboim is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration (CERC) at Toronto Metropolitan University, and a Distinguished Fellow at the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University.

Previously, Naomi worked at senior levels in the Canadian federal and Ontario provincial governments for twenty-five years, including eight years as the Ontario Deputy Minister responsible for immigration, human rights, labour market training, as well as women’s, seniors’, disability, anti-racism and indigenous issues.

She has been involved in different capacities in the Indochinese, Syrian, Afghan and Ukrainian movements to Canada.

Naomi is a recipient of Queen Elizabeth II’s Gold and Diamond Jubilee  Medals and is a member of the Order of Ontario.

Lecturer: 
Warren Mabee, Director and Associate Dean, School of Policy Studies

Fires, floods, and the new normal of climate change: Ranking Canada’s response

It has been a summer of extreme weather across much of the northern hemisphere.  Europe has seen major rivers dry up and major fires; in Canada, provinces including BC and Newfoundland and Labrador have suffered from extensive forest fires.  The Arctic region continues to be hard-hit by the rapidly changing climate, with new data indicating that warming is happening 4x faster in this region than elsewhere around the world.  Canada is building an increasingly complex policy response to the threat of climate change; we review where we are at and the likelihood of achieving these goals.

This is a free, public event that will be available to in-person and via Zoom for online viewers. 

Registration is required for ONLINE VIEWERS only.

Declining Fertility and Diverging Family Structure: Demographic Challenges Unfolding

Lecturer:
Melissa Kearney, Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland

Melissa S. Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group; a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); and a non-resident Senior Fellow at Brookings. She is a scholar affiliate and member of the board of the Notre Dame Wilson-Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) and a scholar affiliate of the MIT Abdul Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). She is an editorial board member of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and Journal of Economic Literature, and a former co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources and Senior Editor of the Future of Children. She serves on the Board of MDRC and the Board of Governors of the Smith Richardson Foundation. Kearney served as Director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings from 2013-2015 and as co-chair of the JPAL State and Local Innovation Initiative from 2015-2018. Kearney's academic research focuses on domestic policy issues, especially issues related to social policy, poverty, and inequality. Her work has been published in leading academic journals and has been frequently cited in the popular press. Kearney teaches Public Economics at both the undergraduate and PhD level at the University of Maryland. She holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University and a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied on a National Science Foundation graduate student fellowship and a Harry S Truman fellowship.

Adversity, Disruption and a Path Forward 

12:30 Refreshments

1:30  

• "Adversity, Disruption in our Health Workforce"
  Don Drummond, Stauffer-Dunning Fellow, Queen's University
   
• "Retention in Healthcare: How do we stop the bleeding?"
  Joan Almost, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing,
  Queen's University
   
• "Calling the Shots on Health Workforce Planning"
  Duncan Sinclair, Distinguished Fellow, Queen's University

2:45 Break

3:00

• "Radical Collaboration: Educating Health Professions for Health Transformation"
  Jane Philpott, Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University

4:00 Break and Refreshments

4:30 - 6:00  

25^th Duncan G. Sinclair Lectureship in Health Services and Policy Research 

"Blood, Sweat and Tears: How Adversity and Disruption are Recasting the Health Care Transformation Agenda"

Lecturer:
Dr. Chris Simpson, Executive Vice-President (Medical), Ontario Health

Dr. Simpson is Executive Vice President (Medical) at Ontario Health. He works clinically as a cardiologist at Kingston Health Sciences Centre and holds a GFT faculty position as Professor in the Queen’s University Department of Medicine. He was the 2014-15 President of the Canadian Medical Association and in 2020-21 was President of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

This is a free, public event.  

Please note that Duncan G. Sinclair Lecture will be available to in-person audiences and will be live streamed. 

REGISTER to attend the Health Symposium sessions virtually  or  in person

REGISTER to attend the Duncan G. Sinclair Lecture in-person or virtually.