Webinar — Will the 2021 federal budget position Canada to emerge strongly from the pandemic?

Jasmine Ramze Rezaee is the Director of Advocacy and Communications at YWCA Toronto and serves on the Board of Directors at Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services.

Charles Breton is the executive director of the Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation at the IRPP and the former research director at Vox Pop Labs. He holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia.

Colin Busby is a research director at the IRPP. Prior to this, he was the associate director of research at the C.D. Howe Institute. He has also worked at Industry Canada and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. While he writes broadly on economic issues, his emphasis is on fiscal and social policy.

Natalia Mishagina is a research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP). Before joining the Institute, Natalia conducted research at the Center for Interuniversity Research and Analysis of Organizations (CIRANO) and worked as an economist at Analysis Group Inc.

Jennifer Ditchburn is the editor-in-chief of Policy Options, the IRPP’s influential digital magazine. An award-winning journalist, she spent more than two decades covering national and parliamentary affairs for The Canadian Press and for CBC Television. She is a three-time winner of a National Newspaper Award and the recipient of the prestigious Charles Lynch Award for outstanding coverage of national issues. She is the coeditor (with Graham Fox) of The Harper Factor: Assessing a Prime Minister’s Policy Legacy (2016).