Past Lectures
2024/25
Keeping Our Fiscal Powder Dry
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Ragan, Associate Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Policy at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy
Economist Dr. Christopher Ragan examines new ways to think about Canada's public debt — when it is so high as to create financing problems, when it is low enough to be safe from those same problems, and when it is in a "middle" zone where a realistic shock might be large enough to push the debt-to-GDP ratio back into the danger zone. Ragan argues that Canada's public debt is currently in the "middle" zone and the current Canadian government is being too complacent.
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2023/24
Canada's Growth Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Speaker: Andrew Coyne, Columnist for The Globe and Mail
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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
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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
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