The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has been, and continues to be, profoundly important to Canadian democracy…. It is virtually unique in its breadth of ideas and its depth of research.
- Ed Broadbent
This year's Alternative Federal Budget Roundtable, entitled Recession, Recovery and Transformation: Meeting the policy challenges of our time, was held in Ottawa on November 18. CPAC was there to tape the day's proceedings and has made the videos available on-demand on their website.
The first panel, From the Frontlines, featured presentations on the impact the recession is having on communities by:
- Teresa Healy, Communities in Crisis Project, Canadian Labour Congress;
- Blair Redlin, Communities in Crisis Project, Canadian Union of Public Employees;
- Suzanne Doerge, City for All Women Initiative; and
- John Andras, Recession Relief Coalition.
Watch this panel in English or French.
The Honourable Ed Broadbent was the lunchtime speaker at a the Roundtable. You can read the text of his speech here. You can watch his inspirational speech outlining his ten propositions for a resurgence of the progressive movement on CPAC's website in both English and French.
The second panel, What kind of recovery?, examines the recession and so-called recovery so far in both Canada and the U.S. with panelists:
- Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers
- Larry Mishel, President, Economic Policy Institute, Washington
- Katherine Scott, Vice-President, Canadian Council on Social Development and Vanier Institute on the Family
Watch this panel in English or French.
The final panel, Policies for a sustainable/transformative recovery, featured presentations by:
- Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Sheila Block, Research Director, Ontario Federation of Labour
- Marc Lee, Principal Investigator, CCPA-SSHRC Climate Justice Project