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Carleton Experts Available: Court Decision on Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion

Published on August 31, 2018

Following the Federal Court of Appeal’s decision to overturn the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, Carleton experts are available to comment.

 

Ian Lee
Associate Professor, Sprott School of Business

Email: Ian.Lee@carleton.ca

Lee has appeared multiple times before the House of Commons Finance and Senate Banking committees. He has been in every Government of Canada budget lockup since 2008. He attended pre-budget consultations with the Minister of Finance in 2009 and 2011.

He was employed in the financial services sector as a loan manager in consumer, mortgage and commercial credit for an American multinational and subsequently for the Bank of Montreal in the 1970s and early 1980s.

 

Veldon Coburn
Instructor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies

Phone:  613-520-2600, ext. 2538
Email:    veldon.coburn@carleton.ca

Coburn’s research interests include Indigenous politics and policy; decolonization and resistance politics; political theory in post-modern thought and post-structuralism; critical race, cultural theory and identity. In addition to his academic pursuits, Coburn has over a decade of professional experience in program and strategic Indigenous policy with the Government of Canada.

 

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