Past Lectures

2022/23

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND — OR DOES IT? REFLECTIONS OF A 70S GUY

 

Speaker: William Watson, Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute

2021/22

Harry Kitchen Lecture in Public Policy

 

Speaker: Carolyn Wilkins, External Member of the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England, former Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada and Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University

Please visit this page for a recording of the lecture.

2020/21

Fiscal and Monetary Policy Anchors in an Era of Global Excess Saving

 

Speaker: David Dodge, Former Governor of the Bank of Canada

2017/18

You Get What You Pay For: Funding Cities in the 21st Century

 

Speaker: Enid Slack, Munck School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

 

2016/17

 

Baffling Budgets and Odd Outcomes

 

Speaker: Bill Robson, President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute

 

2015/16

Re-Imagining the Global Economic Future: Inclusive Growth as Democratizing Productivity

 

Speaker: Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, Chief Economist, Master Card Centre for Inclusive Growth Global Economic Advisor, MasterCard Worldwide

 

2014/15

Rising Income Inequality: Consequences, Causes and Cures

 

Speaker: Andrew Jackson, Broadbent Institute

 

2012/13

Do We Care Enough? How Canada Treats Its Most Vulnerable Citizens

 

Speaker: Lori Curtis, Professor of Economics, University of Waterloo

 

2011/12

Canada's Economic and Fiscal Outlook

 

Speaker: Michael Horgan, Deputy Minister of Finance

 

2010/11

The Context for Reform of Fiscal Institutions and Rules in Canada: This Time is Different

 

Speaker: Kevin Page, Parliamentary Budget Officer

 

2009/10

Canada's Coming Fiscal Challenges

 

Speaker: Robin Boadway, David Chadwick Smith Chair in Economics, Queen's University

 

2008/09

Economics and the Environment: Are Economists Doing Their Job?

 

Speaker: Don Drummond, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group

 

2007/08

A Policy Blueprint for the Information Age

 

Speaker: Thomas Courchene, Jarislowski-Deutsch Professor of Economic and Financial Policy, School of Policy Studies and Department of Economics, Queen's University