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The Sustainability Project – Roundtable 2

November 10, 2009
Ottawa, Ontario

What are the alternatives to the traditional policy process? Can the Public Policy Forum’s Public Engagement Framework offer a more collaborative approach to sustainable development? How might it work and where it would it be useful? What are the values, principles, and practices under it that matter most?

Overview

The Sustainability Project

The NRTEE is joining forces with the Public Policy Forum (PPF) to explore how new, collaborative engagement processes can lead to better sustainable development policy in Canada. The NRTEE and the PPF believe that there may be a need for new forms of public and stakeholder engagement in the development and implementation of sustainable development policies and solutions. With this project, the NRTEE and PPF will explore the view that sustainability requires specially crafted and focused governance mechanisms and processes to navigate through difficult issues and to create a more integrated perspective within our governments and society on how to promote sustainability. (more…)

Participants

Roxanna Benoit
Former Managing Director, Public Affairs Bureau, Alberta Executive Council Office

Gerald Butts
President and CEO,
WWF Canada

Karen Clarke-Whistler
Chief Environment Officer,
TD Bank Financial Group

Mike Cleland
President and CEO,
Canadian Gas Association

Dianne Cunningham
NRTEE Member

Francine Dorion
NRTEE Member

Karen Farbridge
Mayor of Guelph, Ontario

Michael Keenan
Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy, Environment Canada

Gord Lambert
Vice President Sustainable Development, Suncor

Don Lenihan
Facilitator, Public Policy Forum

Dr. Stephen Lucas
Assistant Deputy Minister, Minerals and Metals Sector, Natural Resources Canada

Greg Lyle
Managing Director,
Innovative Research Group

Alfred MacLeod
Assistant Deputy Minister Intergovernmental Policy,
Privy Council Office

Hugh MacLeod
Associate Deputy Minister, Climate Change, Ontario Climate Change Secretariat

Peter MacLeod
Principal, MASS

David McLaughlin
President and CEO, NRTEE

James Meadowcroft
Canada Research Chair in Governance for Sustainable Development,
Carleton University

David J. Mitchell
President and CEO
Public Policy Forum

Peter Robinson
CEO, David Suzuki Foundation

Christopher Waddell
Carty Chair in Business and Financial Journalism
Carleton University

 

 

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