Panellists:
Brian Lee Crowley – Founder and Managing Director of the Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute, a public policy think tank focused on Canadian national issues such as defence, national security, foreign affairs, Canada-US relations, Indigenous affairs, national economic policy, immigration, the rule of law, the judiciary, and other topics. Crowley has published six books, including in 2020 Gardeners vs Designers: Understanding the great fault line in Canadian politics and in 2009, Fearful Symmetry: the fall and rise of Canada’s founding values, both of which were Canadian best sellers.
Andrew Coyne – Columnist for The Globe and Mail. Raised in Winnipeg, Mr. Coyne is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics. He has worked previously for The National Post, Maclean’s and Southam News, contributing as well to a wide range of other publications in Canada and abroad, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, National Review, and The Walrus. He is also a weekly panellist on CBC’s The National.
Lea Peterson – is a Registered Nurse in BC and Ontario. Shortly after earning her undergraduate degree at the University of Calgary in 2018, she joined the front lines in both Toronto and in a remote northern community as a COVID-19 nurse. During her varied contracts in the two unrelenting years following the onset of the pandemic, her bedside and leadership experience in long-term care facilities, special care units and medical-surgical settings inadvertently allowed her to garner valuable insights on the current barriers to an effective and resilient health care system.
Dr. David Zitner – is a former Professor in the Dalhousie University Faculties of Medicine and Computer Science and the founding director of the graduate program in Health Informatics. He has contributed to the boards and advisory committees of several Canadian health organizations and has chaired the quality, utilization and other committees of the Halifax Infirmary, a major Canadian teaching hospital. He has published in the popular press and in peer-reviewed medical journals and was coAuthor of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies Fisher prize-winning papers “Operating in the Dark” and “Public Health: State Secret.
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