Michel Boucher is currently professor of economics at the École nationale d’administration publique in Québec City since 1975. He studied at the Université Laval and the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK). He is specialized in public finance, transportation policies and the economics of public institutions and their governance. He has published numerous [...]
Paul Boothe is Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta. He recently completed a two-year secondment as the Deputy Minster of Finance and Secretary to Treasury Board for the Province of Saskatchewan. He received his undergraduate training in economics at the University of Western Ontario and his doctoral degree from the University of British [...]
Annette Ryan is the Senior Analyst of Federal Fiscal Relations for the Department of the Provincial Treasury in Prince Edward Island. She is responsible for providing analysis and recommendations to the Province on all aspects of federal fiscal arrangements, which include Equalization, the Canada Health and Social Transfer, and Personal and Corporate Income Taxes and [...]
Herbert G. Grubel occupies the David Somerville Chair in Taxation and Finance at The Fraser Institute, and is Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, BC, Canada. He has a B.A. from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. He has taught full-time at Stanford University, the University of [...]
vev Dahlby is a Professor of Economics at the University of Alberta. He was born at Beechy, and grew up on a farm near Star City, Saskatchewan. He attended the University of Saskatchewan, Queen’s University, and the London School of Economics. He has published extensively on tax policy and fiscal federalism. His research has appeared [...]
Michael Gallis is widely considered America's leading expert in large-scale metropolitan regional development strategies. He has pioneered a specialty in building frameworks through which public, private and institutional leaders can work effectively to create globally competitive regions. Through these frameworks, Gallis has mobilized leaders across the country to understand and develop new ways of responding [...]
Jim Retallack was raised in Dartmouth, N.S., leaving in 1965 for undergraduate studies at Acadia University. He holds a BSc in mathematics and physics from Acadia, an MASc from the University of Waterloo, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Southampton. Dr. Retallack joined Nortel in Ottawa in 1979, migrating from product [...]
Dr. G. Campbell Watkins is an internationally recognized expert in energy policy and the application of economic analysis and statistical tools to the energy industry. Dr. Watkins has published extensively on the economics of the oil and gas industry, including demand, supply, market, pricing, taxation, reg-ulation and policy issues. He has testified before numerous provincial, [...]
Jeff Chatterton got his start in risk and crisis communications as a journalist, winning several awards for his coverage of a number of “crisis-oriented” events. He hung up his microphone in 1996 to work for the Ontario government, handling a wide array of communications challenges in the resources arena — spending time at the Ministries [...]
Jeff Chatterton got his start in risk and crisis communications as a journalist, winning several awards for his coverage of a number of “crisis-oriented” events. He hung up his microphone in 1996 to work for the Ontario government, handling a wide array of communications challenges in the resources arena — spending time at the Ministries [...]