Biographies

 

The Honourable Thomas Cromwell was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada on December 22, 2008. He had previously been appointed to the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal on August 27, 1997.

Justice Cromwell went to school in Kingston. He then attended Queen's University, where he obtained a B. Mus. in 1973 and an LL.B. in 1976. He also obtained an A.R.C.T. diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music in 1974 and attended Oxford University, where he earned a B.C.L. in 1977. He married Dr. Della M. M. Stanley of Sackville, New Brunswick on June 7, 1980. They have one child, Thomas.

Justice Cromwell practised law in Kingston and Toronto and taught in the Faculty of Law of Dalhousie University. He worked as Executive Legal Officer to Chief Justice Antonio Lamer for three years, 1992-95. He has also held many other offices: Secretary, Board of Governors, National Judicial Institute, 1992-95; Vice-chair, Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board and Construction Industry Panel, 1991-92; labour arbitrator and adjudicator, 1984-97; President, Continuing Legal Education Society of Nova Scotia; President, Canadian Association of Law Teachers, 1988-89; President, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, 1999-2001; Chair of the Board, Canadian Forum on Civil Justice, 2007-8; Research Director, C.B.A. Court Reform Task Force, 1989-91; Chair, C.B.A. Interim Organizational Committee for the National Organization on Civil Justice Reform, 1996-97; and Commissioner, Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia, 2002-7.

Justice Cromwell was an active member of the Canadian Judicial Council's working committee that prepared the publication entitled Ethical Principles for Judges as well as the Council's working committee on Jury Charges and Education Committee. He was also a faculty member of the programs for new federally and provincially appointed judges, the National Judicial Institute's Intensive Evidence Program, and many other national and provincial continuing education programs, including the Effective Written Advocacy Program of the Advocates' Society. He has authored or contributed to six books and numerous articles and served on the editorial boards for CRIMJI and the Canadian Journal of Administrative Law and Practice. He is Chair of the Editorial Board of the Canadian Bar Review.

Justice Cromwell has received many awards: the C.B.A.'s Louis J. St. Laurent Award of Excellence, 1992; Her Majesty's Jubilee Medal, 2002; the Dalhousie Law Students Society and Dalhousie Law Alumni Association Award of Teaching Excellence, 1992; and the Dalhousie Law Students' Society Class of 1986 Class Ring. He is an Honorary Director of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, an Honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, and an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College Oxford and of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He holds honorary doctorates in law from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Queen's University, Kingston and the Law Society of Upper Canada.

 

Bill Flanagan holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto, a D.E.A. from Paris I (Université Paris I-Sorbonne), and an LL.M. from Columbia University. He hasbeen a member of the Faculty of Law at Queen's University for the last 20 years,and Dean of Law for the last 7 years. He was a law clerk for the Hon. Justice Estey of the Supreme Court of Canada from 1986-87. He has taught International Economic Law and Business Associations for many years, and his research interests include international trade and corporate governance.

In 2001, Dean Flanagan founded the BISC Global Law Programs, offered each spring at Herstmonceaux Castle in the UK, and acted as its Director until 2005. He served as Co-Chair of the Queen's Annual Business Law Symposium from1998-2005. As Dean, he has expanded the law school’s clinical programs, including a Business Law Clinic, and helped to found the law school’s first research centre, the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace. Other milestones include the establishment of the Faculty’s new Ph.D. program.

 

Beth Symes practices administrative law and civil litigation in the areas of equality rights, professional regulation, labour and employment law and human rights. Beth is a graduate of the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1978.

In 1988, Beth was appointed as the first Chair of the Pay Equity Hearings Tribunal. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Council of Administrative Tribunals (CCAT), was a founder of the Conference of Ontario Boards and Agencies (COBA) and is a founding member of the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR).

 

 

Mark Ellis joined Baker & McKenzie's Toronto office in late 2002 after practicing for over 20 years at major Canadian law firms. He is one of Canada's leading advisers on fiduciary obligation, corporate governance and employment law. Mr. Ellis works closely with Baker & McKenzie practitioners throughout North America and around the globe to further enhance the Firm's renowned international labor and employment practice. Mr. Ellis is also the author of Fiduciary Duties in Canada, the leading treatise on corporate, commercial and private obligations of fidelity and trust.

 

 

 

Dr. Michael C. Wolfson, B.Sc., (Toronto - mathematics, computer science and economics 1971), Ph.D. (Cambridge – Economics 1977) recently retired as Assistant Chief Statistician, Analysis and Development, at Statistics Canada. He was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Population Health Modeling / Populomics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa in 2010.

Dr. Wolfson’s areas of expertise include program review and evaluation, tax/transfer policy, pension policy, income distribution, design of health information systems, microsimulation modeling of socio-economic policy and health dynamics, and analysis of the determinants of health.

He held positions in the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Department of Finance, the Privy Council Office, the House of Commons, and the Deputy Prime Minister’s Office prior to joining Statistics Canada. He was also a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program in Population Health (1988-2003).

His numerous articles have addressed topics such as assessing the inter-generational equity of Canada’s pension and health care systems, the design of an appropriate system of health statistics, modeling disease determinants and treatments, income inequality and polarization trends, and income and income inequality as determinants of population health.

Dr. Wolfson is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and a member of the International Statistical Institute.

Pnina Alon-Shenker is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law and Business, Ted Rogers School of Business Management, Ryerson University. She holds LL.B. (Haifa University, 2001), LL.M. (The Hebrew University, 2003; University of Toronto, 2005) and S.J.D. (University of Toronto, 2010). She teaches business law and employment and labour law. Her research interests include labour and employment law, workplace discrimination and the duty to accommodate, aging workers, and theories of equality. Her doctoral dissertation addresses the challenges of the aging workforce for labour policy and employment discrimination law. She has been awarded numerous scholarships including SSHRC Graduate Scholarship and Ontario Graduate Scholarship. In 2002-2003, Alon-Shenker served as law clerk to the Honourable Justice Dalia Dorner of the Supreme Court of Israel. She was called to the Israeli Bar in 2003.

 

Robert Charney, General Counsel, Constitutional Law Branch of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. He received his LL.B. in 1981 from the University of Windsor and his LL.M. in 1983 from Columbia University. He has been with the Ministry of the Attorney General since 1984, and has represented the Ministry in constitutional cases at all levels of court. He has advised the Ontario government on constitutional issues and has appeared as counsel for the Ministry in the Supreme Court of Canada in cases including Adler v. Ontario, M. v. H., Vreind v. Alberta, Eaton v. Brant County Board of Education, PIPS v. NWT, Cuddy Chicks v. OLRB, Lavigne v. OPSEU, Ontario v. Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association, Auton v. British Columbia, Baier v. Alberta, Alberta v. Hutterian Brethren, and Ward v. British Columbia. He is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, and has taught Constitutional Litigation at Osgoode Hall Law School, the University of Windsor, and the University of Haifa Law School.

 

Elizabeth McIntrye:  As a senior member of the law firm Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish LLP, Elizabeth practices civil and administrative law with particular expertise in labour and employment law, human rights, occupational health and safety and health care. She has been recognized by her peers as one of the “Best lawyers in Canada” in the practice areas of labour, employment and human rights. In 2006, she was selected by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a recipient of the Law Society Medal. In 2007 she was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers. Elizabeth was recently honoured by LEAF as one of 15 women lawyers who have made difference for women and girls in Canada.

In 2008, Elizabeth was counsel at the Inquest into the murder of nurse Lori Dupont and the suicide of Dr. Marc Daniel at Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital, in Windsor Ontario, a case that has led to significant amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act regarding violence in the workplace. Elizabeth acted as counsel to interested parties before the Grange Inquiry into deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children and the SARS Commission conducted by Justice Campbell. Elizabeth is well known for her work representing nurses and other professionals in a wide range of settings, including professional discipline/regulation, medical malpractice, inquests, inquiries and criminal proceedings.

Elizabeth appears before all levels of the courts and administrative tribunals. She has been counsel in numerous precedent-setting cases, including the well-known Orillia Soldiers case, the only Canadian appellate court decision on compensation-related disability discrimination and the duty to accommodate. Elizabeth represented LEAF at the Supreme Court of Canada in the K.M. case dealing with the application of limitation periods to victims of sexual assault. She also argued Mt. Sinai v. Tilley, a case in which the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed a provision of the Employment Standards Act disentitling disabled workers to severance pay based on a violation of s.15 of the Charter.

Elizabeth is a frequent speaker and author of articles on human rights, privacy, health professionals, and violence in the workplace. She has also co-authored a book on the College of Teachers Act.

 

Barry Brown attended the University of Western Ontario (B.A. 1976, M.A. 1979, LL.B. 1982). He articled with Hicks Morley and was admitted to the Bar in 1984. His practice involves all aspects of employment and labour relations law. Barry also has extensive experience in education law, regularly acting for school boards, community colleges and universities. Barry is a Partner in the Firm, and practices out of the Firm’s London office.

 

 

 

 

Kevin Banks is appointed to the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University and is the Director of the Queen's Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace. He holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School (2003), and an LL.B. (1989) and B.A. (1986) in economics from the University of Toronto. He has served in a number of senior positions within the Public Service of Canada, including Director General, Labour Policy and Workplace Information, Director of Research with the Federal Labour Standards Review Commission, and Director, Inter-American Labour Co-operation. In the latter capacity was responsible for the office that negotiates and implements Canada’s trade-related labour agreements in the Americas, and for managing Canada’s participation in Inter-American Conference of Ministers of Labour. From 1998 to April 2001, he was Senior Labour Law Advisor with the Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation, created under international labour agreement linked to the North American Free Trade Agreement. Prior to joining the Commission Secretariat, Kevin practised labour law for seven years, representing unions and individual workers. In 1993 he acted as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations. His S.J.D. dissertation explored the policy underpinnings of the linkage between international trade and labour standards, and the challenges that this linkage poses to traditional models of international governance. He has a number of publications on domestic, international and comparative labour law and related matters, including “The Role and Promise of International Law in Canada's New Labour Law Constitutionalism”, forthcoming in the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal; “Trade, Labor and International Governance” in the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (2011); “Progress and Paradox: the Remarkable Yet Limited Advance of Employer Good Faith Duties in Canadian Common Law” in the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal (2011), and “The Impact of Globalization on Labour Standards”, in J. Craig and M. Lynk eds. Globalization and the Future of Labour Law (2006); and a co-authored book entitled North American Labor Relations Law - A Comparative Guide to the Labor Relations Laws of Canada, Mexico and the United States (2001).

 

Richard Chaykowski, Research/Teaching: labour policy and its role in the new economy, the intersection of labour policy and law, labour market institutions, labour relations and collective bargaining, North American labour markets, workplace training and innovation, and the impacts of technological change in the workplace, labour market economics and policy.

Richard Chaykowski received his PhD from Cornell University. Dr. Chaykowski is currently a faculty member in the School of Policy Studies and in the Faculty of Law (cross-appointed) at Queen's University. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the MIT and a visitor at the University of Toronto and at McGill University.

Dr. Chaykowski recently completed an appointment as Visiting Chair at Human Resources and Social Development in the federal government, where he was working in Strategic Policy. His role within government was to support the development of high-quality, evidence-based policy, and provide a ‘challenge function’ as policies were being developed.

Prof. Chaykowski's teaching and research interests include labour policy and its role in the new economy, the intersection of labour policy and law, labour market institutions, labour relations and collective bargaining, North American labour markets, workplace training and innovation, and the impacts of technological change in the workplace. He is frequently requested to speak on these issues in a wide range of forums in both the private and public sectors, including union and senior management groups as well as departments of the Government of Canada. He has also provided support to these stakeholders in a variety of capacities.

His published work has included scholarly articles in journals in economics, such as the Canadian Journal of Economics, the North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Canadian Public Policy, Canadian Business Economics, and Research in Labor Economics, in industrial relations, such as the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations, the Journal of Labor Research, Relations industrielles, and Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, and law, such as the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal and the Saskatchewan Law Review. He has also published articles in such broader publications as the Workplace Gazette, Collective Bargaining Review, Policy Options, and The Financial Post. He has published over forty papers in edited volumes, periodicals, academic proceedings, and as other professional or technical reports. Has also been a guest co-editor of special issues of the journals Relations industrielles and Canadian Public Policy.

 

Professor Slotsve received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1989. Prior to joining Northern Illinois University in 1996, he held a position at Vanderbilt University.

Current Research: labor economics, income distribution, the economics of poverty, and industrial relations

Area of Specialization: Labor Economics, Income Distribution

 

 

 

Michael MacNeil is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University specializing in the areas of labour and employment law, and more recently in the study of issues concerning law in the information society. Over the years, Michael acted frequently as a fact finder for the Ontario Education Relations Commission in teacher-school board collective bargaining disputes. He was a member of the Collective Bargaining Committee of the Canadian Association of University Teachers, and a member of the executive of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers. Within the University, he has chaired the bargaining committee for the Carleton University Academic Staff Association, been Chair of the Law Department, and from 2003 to 2009 was Associate Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs, responsible for student issues for the more than 5000 students in programs attached to the Faculty.

Recent teaching has included a graduate course on comparative labour law policy and an Honours seminar on employment dispute resolution as well as the core labour and employment law courses. Michael is the co-author of Trade Union Law in Canada, with Michael Lynk and Peter Engelmann. His most recent articles include one in the Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal on Wal-Mart in Canada and a just published article, "The Charter Cathedral" in the Dalhousie Law Journal examining Charter and labour law issues.

 

Ronald Davis is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1992 and joined the pension law practice of Koskie Minsky in Toronto where he practiced until he joined the Faculty at UBC in 2003, where he teaches Pension and Benefits Law, Trusts, Corporate Law and Economic Analysis of Law. He is the author of books and articles on pension law, corporate governance and insolvency law and has presented papers on these topics both nationally and internationally. Prior to joining the UBC Law, he was an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario. He is a contributing author to R. Koskie et al eds., Employee Benefits in Canada 3rd Ed. (Brookfield: International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, 2004) and A. Duggan and S. Ben-Ishai, eds. Canadian Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law (Toronto, Lexis-Nexis Butterworths, 2007). He is a co-author of Director and Officer Liability in Corporate Insolvency 2nd ed. (Markham & Vancouver: Butterworths Canada Ltd., 2010), and Business Organizations: Principles, Policies, and Practice (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2007). His book, Democratizing Pension Funds: Corporate Governance and Accountability was released by UBC Press in 2008. He was commissioned by the Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions to write the report “Protecting the Fund” (Toronto: Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2007) and to co-author the report “Analysis of Factors Leading to Insolvency and Restructuring and Their Effects on Pension Plan Wind-ups and Closures” (Toronto: Queen’s Printer for Ontario, 2007), and by the Institute for Research in Public Policy to write “Is Your Defined Benefit Pension Guaranteed?” (IRRP Study No. 16, March 2011) for its Faces of Aging series.

His published articles have appeared in law journals including: International Insolvency Review; UBC Law Review; Law and Policy; Stetson Law Review; Annual Review of Insolvency Law; University of Toronto Law Journal, Canadian Business Law Journal; and Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.

 

Paul Litner, Chair of the firm’s Pensions & Benefits department. Regularly advises public and private sector organizations on a variety of legal and compliance issues in relation to their pension and benefit plans. Paul has extensive experience advising in the areas of: plan funding, fiduciary responsibilities, governance, administration, changes to benefits, pension litigation, fund investments, plan wind-ups, surplus utilization and the pension/benefits aspects of corporate transactions.

Paul has been repeatedly recognized as a leading practitioner in pension and benefits law in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. He has also been repeatedly recognized as an expert in pension and benefits law in both The Best Lawyers in Canada and Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers, and is peer review rated by Martindale Hubbell. Paul was a member of Ontario’s Financial Services Tribunal from 2002 through 2010.

Mr. Litner has published numerous articles for industry publications, including International Pension Lawyer and Benefits Canada, on a variety of pension/benefits subjects. He is also a regular lecturer at continuing education and pension industry programmes, including the CCCA, the CPBI, the ACPM and IFEBP conferences. Paul was also a consulting editor of Lancaster House’s Pension & Benefits E-bulletin from its inception in 2004 until 2010.

Paul is an active participant in the pension industry and is currently the Chair of the ACPM’s National Policy Committee.

 

Elizabeth Shilton was appointed the Law Foundation of Ontario Senior Fellow at the CLCW on February 1st, 2011. As a Senior Fellow with extensive experience in the field, Elizabeth contributes valuable expertise to the Centre. Her postdoctoral work in gender and pension reform will contribute vitally to the CLCW research programme.

Elizabeth Shilton holds an LLM from Harvard and an SJD from the University of Toronto. She was a founding partner of Cavalluzzo Hayes Shilton McIntyre & Cornish, a Toronto-based law firm specializing in union-side labour law. She practiced there for many years, where she advised unions in both the public and private sector on labour and employment law issues, including human rights and constitutional law, and appeared before administrative tribunals and courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in significant cases involving employment and equality rights. She was one of the first lawyers certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Labour Law Specialist. She has published and spoken widely on education labour and employment law and on workplace human rights issues. She taught labour, employment and collective bargaining law as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, and has been a Visiting Scholar at Osgoode’s Institute for Feminist Legal Studies. Elizabeth is also a member of the Ontario Financial Services Tribunal.

Most recently, Elizabeth’s research interests have focused on domestic and comparative employment pension policy and related issues of economic security. Her SJD thesis traces the evolution of employment pension plans from gratuities provided at an employer’s discretion to terms of the contract of employment, arguing that while pension plans are now formally recognized as establishing employee rights, the current legal framework does not provide employees with the tools to influence the content of those rights or to enforce them effectively. Her current research project focuses on gender and pension reform, exploring gender inequality in Canada’s current retirement income system, the role played by law and legal institutions in constructing and reinforcing that inequality, and the potential for equality-driven law reform. She teaches an Advanced Labour Law seminar at Queens on Human Rights in the Workplace.

 

Justice Stephen Goudge, Hons. B.A. (Political Science/Economics), University of Toronto, 1964. M.Sc. (Econ.), London School of Economics, 1965. LL.B. (Awarded Dean's Key), University of Toronto, 1968. Articled to the Hon. Ian G. Scott, Q.C. Called to the Bar of Ontario in 1970. Appointed Queen's Counsel in 1982. Practiced with the small litigation firm of Cameron Brewin and Scott until it merged with Gowling and Henderson in 1983. Was managing partner of the firm Gowling, Strathy & Henderson in Toronto where he engaged in a general litigation practice. Appeared before many administrative tribunals and Courts at all levels in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. Lecturer, University of Toronto Faculty of Law in Labour Law and Native Rights 1974 to 1985 and in Professional Responsibility 2001 to date. Was active in the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association. Was an elected Bencher of the Law Society of the Upper Canada from 1991 to 1996. He is a Judicial Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario in 1996. Board member, Pro Bono Law Ontario 2002 to 2006. Member, Chief Justice’s Advisory Committee on Professional Responsibility, 2001 to date. Appointed on April 25, 2007 by the government of Ontario to conduct the Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology, which reported on October 1, 2008. Member, Board of Governors, Law Commission of Ontario, 2009 to date. Member, Civil Rules Committee, 2009 to date.

 

Sheila Osborne-Brown is the Director of Legal Advisory Services and Senior Counsel at the Canadian Human Rights Commission in Ottawa. She is a member of the Bars of Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and California. Before joining the Commission about three years ago, she spent several years in private practice in St. John's, and more recently in Los Angeles. She has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court, the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and Trial Division, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the United States District Court (California Central, Eastern, and Northern Districts), and the California Superior Court. Sheila has been involved with the CBA throughout her legal career, and as a former teacher, has a special interest in lawyers' professional development. She has served as the Chair of the CBA National Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education (now Professional Development.) She is on the National Executive of the CBA Labour and Employment Law Section, and is the co-chair of the planning committee for the 2012 Annual CBA Administrative Law and Labour and Employment Law conference. Sheila was also recently appointed to the CBA's International Development Committee. She was previously involved as a volunteer with the IDC as part of a team that provided seminars on developing CLE programs to the Vietnamese Lawyers' Association. Sheila is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. She received her LL.M. in European Union Law (Employment) with Distinction from Leicester University. Her thesis, entitled "Legal Wrinkles in the Face of Demographic Change: Age, Article 13 and the Framework Directive" focused on age as a ground of discrimination, and the interplay between various economic and social programs in European Union countries and the anti-discrimination requirements imposed at the EU level.

 

Mr. Fishbein was appointed Chair of the Board on February 28, 2011. He brings over 30 years of experience as a labour lawyer in Ontario to the position. He has a law degree from the University of Toronto and an LLM from Harvard University. Along with appearing at the OLRB for more than 30 years, Mr. Fishbein has taught employment and labour arbitration law at the University of Toronto. He is also a former member of the Ontario Grievance Settlement Board and former Chair of the Labour Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association.

 

 

 

 

Elizabeth Macpherson was appointed Chairperson of the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) effective January 1, 2008 for a term of five years. The CIRB has statutory responsibility for interpreting and applying the provisions of Part I of the Canada Labour Code, which regulates the conduct of labour-management relations in the federally regulated private sector.

Prior to her appointment to the CIRB, Ms. MacPherson was the Director General of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) from April 1999 to December 2007, and mediated numerous high profile collective bargaining disputes between unions and employers in the federally regulated private sector. Ms. MacPherson holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Industrial Relations from McGill University, and worked in the field of labour-management relations in the Quebec para-public sector for a number of years. She joined the federal department of Labour as a conciliation officer in 1979 and subsequently obtained an LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Ottawa. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1994.

Ms. MacPherson is past-President of the Association of Labor Relations Agencies (ALRA) and has taught at the University of Ottawa, the federal Training Program for Tribunal Members and the LSUC bar admission course. She currently serves as vice-chair of the Heads of Federal Administrative Tribunals Forum (HFATF).

 

Susan Eng is Vice President for Advocacy at CARP, the national, non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to advocating for social change that will bring financial security, equitable access to health care and freedom from discrimination for all Canadians as we age.

Susan takes a non-ideological, innovative approach and brings to the role, the knowledge, expertise and public policy acumen she gained as a former tax lawyer, prominent activist and frequent media commentator. Under Susan’s leadership, CARP Advocacy has helped to shape the public discourse on key issues such as pension reform, mandatory retirement, workplace age discrimination, home care and age friendly cities. Increasingly, CARP has become a trusted source of public policy input at all levels of government and the media.