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March 5, 2003
Concerns about the environment have been highlighted through debates about the Kyoto Protocol, while changes to Canada’s immigration policies and directions continue to shape public opinion.
The two issues will spark further discussion when experts meet for a conference on social responsibility March 7-8 at Harbour Centre.
Globalization: Environmental and Immigration Dimensions, is the first in a series of annual mini-conferences on social responsibility, sponsored by SFU’s graduate liberal studies and the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation lectures in the liberal arts.
The question linking the two issues will be whether Canada, endowed with natural resources, has a responsibility to allow easy immigration for those in overpopulated poor regions of the world.
Federal environment minister David Anderson is expected to attend the Friday night’s session on the environment. Saturday’s focus will be on immigration.
Panelists will include:
Don De Voretz, who specializes in development economics and the economics of immigration. The SFU professor is working on a micro-simulation model to measure the impact of immigrants on Vancouver’s economy;
John Richards, an SFU business professor specializing in social, resource and public policy;
Aldyen Donnelly, executive director of the Canadian Environment Industry Association and president of the Greenhouse Gas Emission ManagementConsortium;
Andrew Pape-Salmon, director of Sustainable Energy at the Pembina Institute;
Vancouver businessman James Ho;
author Daniel Stoffman (Who Gets In: What’s Wrong With Canada’s Immigration Program — and How to Fix It);
national syndicated political and economic columnist Andrew Coyne.
The conference will be opened by SFU Chancellor Milton Wong. Anderson is expected to give Friday night’s keynote address while Stoffman and Coyne will speak on Saturday morning. Their addresses will be moderated by SFU President Michael Stevenson.
The conference is free, but seating is limited. Call 604.291.5100 or email glsp@sfu.ca to reserve a seat.
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Contact
Don DeVoretz, 604.291.4660; don_devoretz@sfu.ca
Marianne Meadahl/Julie Ovenell-Carter, Media & PR, 604.291.4323: marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca
The two issues will spark further discussion when experts meet for a conference on social responsibility March 7-8 at Harbour Centre.
Globalization: Environmental and Immigration Dimensions, is the first in a series of annual mini-conferences on social responsibility, sponsored by SFU’s graduate liberal studies and the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation lectures in the liberal arts.
The question linking the two issues will be whether Canada, endowed with natural resources, has a responsibility to allow easy immigration for those in overpopulated poor regions of the world.
Federal environment minister David Anderson is expected to attend the Friday night’s session on the environment. Saturday’s focus will be on immigration.
Panelists will include:
Don De Voretz, who specializes in development economics and the economics of immigration. The SFU professor is working on a micro-simulation model to measure the impact of immigrants on Vancouver’s economy;
John Richards, an SFU business professor specializing in social, resource and public policy;
Aldyen Donnelly, executive director of the Canadian Environment Industry Association and president of the Greenhouse Gas Emission ManagementConsortium;
Andrew Pape-Salmon, director of Sustainable Energy at the Pembina Institute;
Vancouver businessman James Ho;
author Daniel Stoffman (Who Gets In: What’s Wrong With Canada’s Immigration Program — and How to Fix It);
national syndicated political and economic columnist Andrew Coyne.
The conference will be opened by SFU Chancellor Milton Wong. Anderson is expected to give Friday night’s keynote address while Stoffman and Coyne will speak on Saturday morning. Their addresses will be moderated by SFU President Michael Stevenson.
The conference is free, but seating is limited. Call 604.291.5100 or email glsp@sfu.ca to reserve a seat.
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Contact
Don DeVoretz, 604.291.4660; don_devoretz@sfu.ca
Marianne Meadahl/Julie Ovenell-Carter, Media & PR, 604.291.4323: marianne_meadahl@sfu.ca