Maytree releases new report with more than 50 actionable policy ideas

Maytree's most recent publication, Charting Prosperity: Practical Ideas for a Stronger Canada, presents policy proposals intended to contribute to Canada’s prosperity while protecting the country’s most vulnerable. It presents more than 50 ideas, covering five thematic areas:

• income support and social security;
• democracy and participation;
• inclusion and protection;
• immigrant and refugee selection; and
• diversity and integration.

This online discussion will feature Alan Broadbent, Chairman, Maytree, who will describe the power of public policy to transform society, as well as explore why some ideas resonate with decision-makers. Sherri Torjman, Vice-President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy will highlight and describe a few key recommendations from the policy document. A discussion with webinar participants will follow.

Dial-in instructions will be sent to you by email following registration. Participants will need access to both a phone and a computer with internet access. (There are usually no downloads required to participate in this webinar.)

For more information, please contact Sandra Lopes, Manager, Policy and Research, at: policy@maytree.com or 416-944-2627.

For media interviews:

Markus Stadelmann-Elder
Manager, Communications
Maytree
T: 416-944-2627 ext. 284
mselder@maytree.com

Alan Broadbent, Chairman, Maytree

Alan is Chairman of Maytree, the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and the Tamarack Institute. He is also Chairman and CEO of Avana Capital Corporation. Alan is the author of Urban Nation: Why we Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong. In addition, Alan is Chairman and CEO of Jamscor Inc.; Chairman of the Tides Canada Foundation; Chairman of Diaspora Dialogues; advisor to the Literary Review of Canada; Co-chair of Happy Planet Foods; member of the Governors’ Council of the Toronto Public Library Foundation; Senior Fellow of Massey College and Member of the Order of Canada.

Sherri Torjman, Vice-President, Caledon Institute of Social Policy

Sherri Torjman is Vice-President of the Caledon Institute. She has written in the areas of welfare reform, customized training, disability income and supports, the social dimension of sustainable development and community-based poverty reduction. Sherri was co-Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee on Tax Measures for Persons with Disabilities that reported to the Minister of Finance and the Minister of National Revenue in December 2004. She has worked for the House of Commons Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped, the House of Commons Special Committee on Child Care and the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. Sherri taught a course in social policy at McGill University and is a former Board Member of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. In 2010, Sherri was named as one of the Top 25 Canadians by the Canadian Association for Retired Persons.