The public’s experience of dealing with institutions during COVID-19

Jocelyn Formsma is the chief executive officer of the National Association of Friendship Centres. She is a member of the Moose Cree First Nation in Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Ottawa and is called to the Bar of Ontario. She brings her legal training and passion for access to justice to her work with Indigenous Peoples in urban environments and the Friendship Centre Movement to achieve positive and effective systemic change for Indigenous Peoples.

Dan Kelly is the president and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. Dan is the lead spokesperson and advocate for the views of the organization’s 97,000 members. He has led campaigns, published studies and been a regular speaker on international trade, labour shortages, immigration and credit cards. He was named one of the top 100 most powerful and influential people in government and politics by Power & Influence magazine.

John McAndrews is the managing director of McMaster University’s Digital Society Lab — an interdisciplinary research facility dedicated to the study of societal transformations in the digital age.  His research examines questions of individual behaviour and decision making.  His work has been published in Legislative Studies Quarterly, Parliamentary Affairs, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, and the Canadian Journal of Political Science.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia.

Raj Grewal is an emergency physician, co-founder of the  South Asian Covid Task Force, and former medical director of the Embassy Grand Vaccine Centre.

Charles Breton has been the Executive Director of the IRPP’s Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation since 2019. He was the research director at Vox Pop Labs, where he led the design of innovative public opinion research tools such as Vote Compass. His research interests include Canadian politics, comparative public policy and public opinion research. Before pursuing an academic career, he was a researcher and journalist for current affairs programs on Radio-Canada, and he is a frequent analyst and expert commentator on Canadian politics and public policy. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of British Columbia, did post-doctoral studies at Vanderbilt University, and has an MA in political science from the Université de Montréal.