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Carleton Experts Available: Ontario Election

Published on January 29, 2025

The Ontario election has been called and Carleton experts are available to discuss the election campaign and related issues.

If you are interested in speaking with the experts below, please feel free to contact them directly. If you require other assistance, please email Elizabeth Kane, Communications Officer, at Elizabeth.Kane@carleton.ca.

For other experts, please visit the Carleton Experts Database: https://experts.carleton.ca/

James Brunet
Instructor, School of Information Technology at Carleton University

Email: jamesbrunet3@cunet.carleton.ca

Brunett’s work is focused on Canadian elections. His experience includes observing ballot counting, presenting at election security conferences, managing local political campaigns, discovering and disclosing security vulnerabilities in election technology, leading a provincial central campaign data team, conducting a broad review of online voting in Ontario, building predictive voter models, interviewing election administrators about their election processes, as well as providing cybersecurity guidance to candidates, political staff and election administrators.

Through this work, he has responsibly disclosed several security vulnerabilities in Canadian online voting providers, which were acknowledged and fixed by vendors.

For more on Brunet, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/james-brunet

Ian Lee
Professor, Sprott School of Business at Carleton University

Email: Ian.Lee@carleton.ca

Lee is happy to discuss business in Ontario, including economic growth, deficits, and the competitiveness of Ontario industries. Lee has appeared multiple times before the House of Commons and Senate finance, banking, industry and trade 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. His work has appeared in the annual publication, How Ottawa Spends, concerning Canada’s retirement system, the Parliamentary Budget Officer, deficits, corporate income reform, and more.

For more on Lee, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/ian-lee

Jon Pammett
Professor, Department of Political Science at Carleton University

Email: Jon.Pammett@carleton.ca

Pammett is one of Canada’s premier specialists on survey research. His books have included Political Choice in Canada, Dynasties and Interludes, and four editions of Absent Mandate.  Pammett’s research on the nature of democratic participation includes a number of reports and articles for Elections Canada, including Explaining the Turnout Decline in Canadian Federal Elections: A New Survey of Non-Voters and Confronting the Problem of Declining Voter Turnout Among Youth.

Pammett can speak to the election in general, including subjects relating to strategic voting and party campaign strategy.

For more on Pammett, visit: https://experts.carleton.ca/jon-pammett

Media Contact

Elizabeth Kane (she/her)
Communications Officer
343-998-9041
Elizabeth.Kane@carleton.ca

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