Getting Real: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2017
Roundtable Luncheon with Heather Evans, Michael Horgan and Bill Robson
Canada’s latest budget will be delivered in a time of global uncertainty; bringing additional challenges to setting the nation’s spending priorities. Join our expert panel at the C.D. Howe Institute for their take on what the federal government should be prioritizing to prepare Canada for the years ahead.
Heather Evans, Executive Director and CEO, Canadian Tax Foundation
Heather Evans is currently the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Tax Foundation. Heather graduated from McMaster University with a Bachelor of Arts degree, from Western University with a Bachelor of Laws, and from Osgoode Hall Law School with a Master of Laws (Taxation). Called to the Ontario Bar, she practised tax law for several years prior to joining Deloitte Canada, where she was admitted to the partnership in 2000 and served as National Managing Partner, Tax, from 2012 to 2016.
An active speaker and writer on tax matters, Heather is a member of the Ontario Bar Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. She has also taught at Western Law School and at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Michael Horgan, former Deputy Minister of Finance Canada, Chair of the Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Council, C.D. Howe Institute
Michael Horgan is a Senior Advisor with the law firm Bennett Jones LLP. He provides clients with advice on a range of economic, financial sector, energy and environment issues. Mr. Horgan had a 36-year career in the Public Service of Canada where he served as Deputy Minister of four Departments, including the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Indian and Northern Affairs, and Environment Canada. He retired from the Public Service in April 2014 after five years as Deputy Minister of Finance. He has also held the positions of G7/G20 Finance Deputy for Canada and Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean on the board of the International Monetary Fund. He has also served on a number of Crown corporation boards, including the Bank of Canada, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Export Development Canada. Mr, Horgan is currently a Director of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, the Gairdner Foundation, the International Institute for Environment and Development, the Ontario Brain Institute, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is a recipient of the Prime Minister's Outstanding Achievement Award for Public Service and the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal. Mr. Horgan has a B.A. in economics from Concordia University (Loyola College) and M.A.'s in economics from Queen's University and Princeton University.
William B. P. Robson, President and Chief Executive Officer, C.D. Howe Institute
Bill Robson took office as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute in July 2006, after serving as the Institute’s Senior Vice President since 2003 and Director of Research since 2000. He has written more than 200 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues. His work has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors, and is a member of the Big Picture Panel on the CBC’s The Exchange. Bill taught public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003, and currently teaches a Master’s level course in public finance at the University of Toronto’s School of Public Policy and Governance.
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