Canada must make the energy sector a driving force of our economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear how we can do this while pursuing climate change goals, through transformative innovation and partnership between industry, governments and Indigenous communities. Claire Kennedy hosts this discussion with Vivek Warrier and Serge Dupont, all of Bennett Jones LLP.
This episode features insights into the short-term priorities to get Canada back on a path of non-inflationary growth and the longer term road ahead to closing the investment gap, increasing innovation and raising productivity growth. Looking beyond this horizon, the authors also discuss how governments and businesses can create the conditions to compete in a changing world and to grow the economy sustainably. Listen to our June 2023 Economic Outlook webinar, featuring former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge and former Executive Director in the International Monetary Fund IMF, Serge Dupont.
New infrastructure projects will be an important part of Canada s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, and many will be situated on the path of reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Listen to what the evolving legal, policy and business environments mean for engagement with Indigenous communities on investment in infrastructure projects in Canada. Serge Dupont hosts this discussion with Will Osler and Sharon Singh, all of Bennett Jones LLP.
On February 21, 2022, Russia formally recognized the purported independence of two regions in Eastern Ukraine, Donetsk and Luhansk. The next day it ordered Russian troops into the separatist-occupied territories, and the incursion escalated into a multi-pronged invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Canada swiftly announced new sanctions that target Russia and the occupied Ukrainian regions, as it warned it would do if Russia were to continue its aggressive policies against Ukraine.