Building Back Better with Forests and Farming

Join us on Wednesday, May 20, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. EDT to see fresh analysis showing how a post-COVID recovery package could help to improve Canadian farms and forests, along with reactions from panelists and expert commentators.

Welcome from The Hon. Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food (TBC)

Discussion Hosted by Diana Fox Carney, Economist and Public Policy Expert

Panelists
• Tzeporah Berman, International Program Director, Stand.Earth
• Magali Depras, Chief Strategy Officer, TC Transcontinental
• Daimen Hardie, Executive Director, Forests International
• David Martin, Chair, WWF Canada
• Michel McCain, CEO, Maple Leaf Foods (TBC)
• Jane Rabinowicz, Executive Director, SeedChange

Expert Commentators

• Céline Bak, President, Analytica Advisors
• Rob Keen, CEO, Forests Ontario
• Terri Lynn Morrison, Director of Strategic Partnership, Indigenous Clean Energy (ICE)
• Lara Ellis, Senior Vice-President, Policy and Partnerships, ALUS Canada
• Dave Sawyer, Chief Economist, Canadian Institute for Climate Choices
• Ralph Torrie, Senior Associate, Sustainability Solutions Group and Partner, Torrie Smith Associates