The Macdonald-Laurier Institute and the C.D. Howe Institute came together in Toronto to host a dialogue on the future of Canada’s energy and natural resource policy.

The event took place with Chatham house rules in place but significant themes emerged, including:

• Canada’s abundant energy security has made us complacent. Will it take a crisis to wake us up to our energy needs?
• Economic reconciliation with indigenous communities is Canada’s competitive advantage.
• Government needs to stop trying to pick winners in the sector.
• Small changes in energy prices will compound through an entire economy.
• Uncertainty from incoherent, stacking government regulations has sent investors running.
• Some Canadians seem ashamed of the centrality of energy and natural resources to our economy… they shouldn’t be. The Canadian energy and natural resource industry is the foundation of our prosperity; our industry is technologically innovative and world leading.

We are grateful to the many thoughtful, esteemed speakers and guests who made the conference a stirring success.

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Speakers Included:

William B.P. Robson, Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute

Brian Lee Crowley, Managing Director, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Duncan Munn, President, C.D. Howe Institute

John Manley, Chair, Jefferies Securities Inc; Senior Business Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP

Robert Johnston, Executive Director, Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University

Jean Charest, Partner, Therrien Couture Joli-Coeur LLP

Dwight Duncan, Strategic Advisor, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP

Lisa Raitt, Vice-Chair and Managing Director, Global Investment Banking, CIBC Capital Markets

Adam Legge, President, Business Council of Alberta

JP Gladu, Principal, Mokwateh

Brad Gilmour, Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP

Ken Coates, Distinguished Fellow and Director of Indigenous Affairs, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Monica Gattinger, Chair, Positive Energy, University of Ottawa

Nik Nanos, Executive Chairman, Nanos Research Group of Companies

Mike Therien, Deputy Director, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

David Dodge, Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones

Gina Pappano, Executive Director, InvestNow Inc.

Jack Mintz, President’s Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary

Jeremy Kronick, Associate Vice President, Director of the Centre on Financial and Monetary Policy, C.D. Howe Institute

Christopher Sands, Director, Center for Canadian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Richard Norris, Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

Brigham McCown, Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security, Hudson Institute

Heather Exner-Pinot, Senior Fellow & Director of Energy, Natural Resources and Environment, Macdonald-Laurier Institute