Walter Gordon Symposium — Canada’s Changing Energy Landscape

On Friday, March 24th, join the Walter Gordon Symposium on Canada’s Changing Energy Landscape from 9:00am-2:00pm, with breakfast beginning at 8:15am. Global energy markets are rapidly changing in response to energy security needs and demands for a decarbonized global supply of energy. While Canada pursues various initiatives to transition into a low-carbon economy, including electrification and the decarbonization of energy, energy security concerns facing Canadian allies are showing a need for energy sources like natural gas. This has sparked heavy debates across Canada about what Canada’s energy future should look like, for domestic and foreign consumers.

The Walter Gordon Symposium is named after the Hon. Walter Gordon, who was Minister of Finance and President of the Privy Council under the government of Lester B. Pearson. The annual series, which began in 1990 under the leadership of then head of the College, Ann Saddlemyer, was designed to present a topic of immediate Canadian significance to an interested audience drawn from academic, corporate and government worlds.

The event is co-sponsored by Massey College and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy with support by Tom Axworthy (Massey’s Chair in Public Policy) and Carolyn Tuohy (Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and Senior Fellow, Massey College).

Agenda

8:15 a.m. - Light breakfast

9:00 a.m. - Welcome Remarks 

• Nathalie Des Rosiers – Principal, Massey College
• Thomas S. Axworthy – Public Policy Chair, Massey College
• Carolyn Tuohy – Distinguished Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; Senior Fellow, Massey College

9:05 a.m. - Keynote

• Phil De Luna, Sustainability Expert, McKinsey & Company; Alum, Massey College

9:30 a.m. - Panel 1: Canada’s Green Energy Transition: How well is Canada transitioning over to low-carbon energy sources, in the context of domestic goals?  

• Mike Schreiner – MPP, Leader, Ontario Green Party (Moderator)
• Erin Kelly – CEO, Advanced Symbolics
• Fiona Blondin – VP Indigenous Relations, Cormorant Utility Services
• Brad Duguid – Former Ontario Minister of Energy

11:00 a.m. - Coffee break

11:30 a.m. - Panel 2: Canada’s Role and Responsibility in Supplying our Allies: What role does Canada have in supporting the energy needs of our allies? How should this factor into Canada’s energy transition?

• Scott McKnight – Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy (Moderator)
• Gary Mar – CEO, Canada West Foundation
• Diego Rivera Rivota – Research Fellow, Centre for Global Energy Policy, Columbia University
• Peter Fraser – Former Head of Gas, Coal and Power Markets, International Energy Agency

1:00 p.m. - Light lunch

1:30 p.m. - Keynote

• Dwight Duncan – Former Ontario Minister of Energy and Former Ontario Minister of Finance

Registration

FREE

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