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Program

THE NEXT SIXTY: Celebration of 60 years of SPPA

River Building, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa

Sponsored by the 2014 FPA Research Month

March 13-14, 2014

Thursday, March 13

Reception

Sponsored by the Carleton University Alumni Association

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
River Building Atrium, 2nd Floor

6:00 p.m. Early registration for Policy Conversation March 14

6:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Welcome and Announcements

Friday, March 14

Policy Conversation

8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
River Building, 2nd Floor

Registration and Coffee
8:00 – 8:30 a.m.
River Building Atrium, 2nd Floor

8:30 – 8:45 a.m.
River Building Conference Rooms, 2nd Floor
Opening Ceremony: Indigenous Elder
Master of Ceremonies: Susan Phillips, Professor, Director, SPPA
Welcome: André Plourde, Dean, Faculty of Public Affairs

8:45 a.m. – 10:15: Panel I
The Vanishing Distinction Between Economic and Social Policy

Economic and social policies have always been intertwined. For example, social assistance regimes can have important impacts on labour markets, the organization of health care can significantly affect economic performance, and education policies can profoundly affect long-term economic growth. And in recent years, economic considerations have more and more become dominant in social policy decisions; social assistance, immigration and education are cases in point. What are the implications of this trend for inter-personal and inter-generational dimensions of social and economic policies? Is the notion of using social policy to help shape a “just society” a hopelessly naïve relic of the past?

Moderator: Allan Maslove, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, SPPA

PANELISTS:

• Andrew Coyne, Columnist for Postmedia
• Rachel Laforest, Associate Professor, Queen’s University
• Michael Prince, Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, University of Victoria
• Munir Sheikh, former Chief Statistician of Canada; Co-chair of the Commission for the Review of Social Assistance in Ontario

10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break: Atrium

10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Panel II
A ‘Modern’ Public Service?

Public management systems around the world have been in the eye of fierce storms recently: the financial crisis, Wikileaks, empowered and disgruntled citizens, sagging services but also demands for new ones. How do modern public sectors respond? Are there models for reform, directions for change? What will a “new public bureaucracy” look like? What services make sense to keep public, which ones not, and which ones to mix?

Moderator: Leslie Pal, Professor, Chancellor’s Professor, SPPA

PANELISTS:

• Bruce Doern, Professor Emeritus, Carleton University
• Nick Manning, Former Head of the Governance & Public Sector Management (GPSM), World Bank
• Catherine MacQuarrie, Vice-President, Strategic Directions, Program Development and Marketing Branch, Canada School of Public Service
• George Ross, Ontario DM, former President of IPAC

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.: LUNCH (Atrium)

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.: Panel III
2035 and Beyond: Imagining Canada as a Low-Carbon Society

The next century will see profound changes in our energy systems – at least as dramatic as those experienced since 1914 when electrification and motorized transportation were in their infancy. On this pathway of change, what will Canada look like a generation from now in 2035? The panel contends that Canada will be transitioning to a much less carbon intensive economy by 2035. The transition has begun even in fossil fuel rich Canada as the oil and gas sector begins to lower carbon emissions and reduce impacts on water and air. An international race is underway to develop low-carbon technologies and to design production and consumption practices that reduce energy use. These forces have immense implications for the transportation, agriculture, manufacturing and construction sectors going forward. Significant socio-technological changes will have to happen for Canada to become a low-carbon society. This panel will explore the drivers that will push this transition, and the barriers that will slow it.

Moderator: Glen Toner, Professor, SPPA

PANELISTS:

• David Cherniak, SPPA M.A. Student Sustainable Energy Policy, Class of 2012
• Nancy Cruz, SPPA M.A. Student Sustainable Energy Policy, Class of 2013
• James Meadowcroft, Professor, Canada Research Chair, SPPA
• Danny Rosenbloom, PhD Student SPPA, Class of 2013, SPPA Grad, 2011
• Leela Steiner, PhD Student UBC, Class of 2013, SPPA Grad, 2012

2:30 – 2:45 p.m. Break: Atrium

2:45 – 3:45 p.m.: Panel IV
Indigenous Policy and Governance: The Way Ahead?

First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples have made enormous political gains in the last sixty years, whether one considers the changes in Canadian jurisprudence acknowledging First Nations, Métis and Inuit rights, the modern treaty negotiations that have led to twenty agreements, the endorsement by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples of the nation-to-nation principle or the establishment of several new models of Aboriginal self-government through the treaty process. Yet there remain many irritants in Aboriginal-Crown relations. Much remains to be done to realize First Nations, Métis and Inuit self-determination and to build strong Aboriginal governments with equitable, respectful and practical working relationships with federal, provincial and territorial governments. This panel will consider whether or not the political, legal, and programmatic gains made in the last 60 years have actually resulted in practical community improvements for First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples. Is Aboriginal self-governance closer to becoming a reality today than it was in 1995, when the policy was first initiated? What conditions are necessary to bring us closer to this outcome?

Moderator: Frances Abele, Professor, SPPA

PANELISTS:

• Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell, Grand Chief of the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
• Michael Wernick, Deputy Minister of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada
• Chief Gilbert Whiteduck, Chief of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation

3:45 p.m.: Announcement of the new Master of Arts in Public Administration concentration in Indigenous Policy and Administration and Diploma in Indigenous Policy and Administration
John Shepherd, Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Academic), Carleton University

3:55 p.m. CLOSING: Susan Phillips, Professor, Director, SPPA, Carleton University

EVENING BANQUET: Friday, March 14

SPPA Student Society Banquet
Registration now closed.

6:00 p.m.
Panorama Room, National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin Street

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