Ontario Chapter – RESCHEDULED – BEYOND COVID: HOW TRENDS ARE IMPACTING THE PUBLIC SECTOR FINANCE COMMUNITY AND HOW WE CAN SHAPE THE POST PANDEMIC FUTURE

Webinar presented by The Financial Management Institute of Canada’s Ontario Chapter.

As public servants we are constantly working to create the greatest good for our communities. Identifying and understanding the disruptions and influences affecting Ontarians can better position us to effectively work to create policies and programs that will boldly move Ontario into the future.

At this presentation, Canadian Economist and Canada’s first ever Parliamentary Budget Officer, Kevin Page will discuss this topic using a top down approach. He will share what the predicted public sector finance trends are, along with how they are developed, the government’s role in incenting behavior, avoiding unexpected outcomes and knowing which ones will endure, dissipate and evolve.

Rohinton Medhora serves as the President of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)and the Chair of the Ontario Workforce Advisory Committee (OWAC). Assembled by the Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development, the OWAC’s mandate was to provide recommendations to shape the future of work in Ontario, around the themes of economic recovery, strengthening Ontario’s competitive position and supporting workers. Their recent report synthesized feedback from over 700 Ontario stakeholder groups, and discussed the intersecting trends of technological change, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and workforce recovery. Rohinton will share an overview of this project and further discuss the report’s 3 themes and 21 recommendations. He will also discuss how the findings can be used by the public sector finance community to create a better future for Ontarians.

Price: $10 general admission / $5 students (to cover costs)

3 CPD Hours

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Webinar Schedule & Topics:

8:30 – 9:00 am
TEAMS Live Event Room Opens for Registrants

9:00 – 9:15 am
Opening Remarks
Beili Wong,
FCPA, FCA,
Comptroller General and Deputy Minister,
Office of the Comptroller General,
Treasury Board Secretariat

9:15 – 9:45 am
Working with Trends to Shape the Post COVID Future
Kevin Page,
Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy,
University of Ottawa.
Former Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada

9:45 – 10:15 am
Post-COVID Labour Market Policies: Broader Considerations
Rohinton Medhora,
President,
Centre for International Governance Innovation
and Chair of the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee

10:15 – 11:15 am
Q&A with Kevin Page & Rohinton Medhora

11:15 – 11:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Lorna Morochove,
Manager/A,
Financial Management Resource Development Treasury Board Secretariat,
and Vice President FMI – Ontario Chapter

SPEAKERS
	Kevin Page, Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, University of Ottawa. Former Parliamentary Budget Officer of Canada Kevin Page is the current Chief Executive Officer of the New Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy at the University of Ottawa. Prior to this position, he was the Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chair in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa. He has 27 years of experience in the federal public service serving predominantly at three central agencies responsible for budgeting. Notably he held the positions of Canada’s first Parliamentary Budget Officer, the Assistant Secretary to Cabinet for Macroeconomic Policy at the Privy Council Office before becoming Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer during that time. Kevin has a Master’s degree in Economics from Queen’s University. He was born in Fort William (Thunder Bay) Ontario.
	Rohinton Medhora, President, Centre for International Governance Innovation and Chair of the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee Rohinton Medhora is the President of the Centre for International Governance Innovation(CIGI) and Chair of the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Toronto where he taught for numerous years. Rohinton has published extensively in the field of, monetary and trade policy, international economic relations and development economics. He sits on The Lancet and the Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030 and the Commission on Global Economic Transformation. He also serves on the boards of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the McLuhan Foundation and the WTO Chairs Programme, UNU-MERIT, and Global Health Centre.
	Opening Remarks Beili Wong, FCPA, FCA, Comptroller General and Deputy Minister, Office of the Comptroller General, Treasury Board Secretariat
	Closing Remarks Lorna Morochove, Manager/A, Financial Management Resource Development Treasury Board Secretariat, and Vice President FMI – Ontario Chapter