The Honourable Erminie Cohen (Chair)
Retired Senator
Ms. Françoise Bertrand
President and Director General of the Fédération des Chambres de commerce du Québec
Mr. William A. MacKinnon
Chief Executive and Senior Partner, KPMG Canada, LLP
Dr. W. Craig Riddell
Department of Economics, University of British Columbia
This report would not have been possible without the diligence and dedication of all of those who worked for and assisted the Panel. Panel members would like to acknowledge and thank:
Patricia M. Smith
Head of the Secretariat on Older Workers
Dougall Aucoin
Director of Consultations and Communications
Dr. Richard Chaykowski
Director of Research
George Jackson
Senior Analyst
Kelly Bestland
Executive Assistant
Diane Methot
Office Manager
Ross McKean
Special Assistant to the Chair
Luc Lapointe
Coordinator
Jacques Lemire
Coordinator
Samuel LeBreton
Analyst
Adam Aldersley
Administrative Assistant
Dominique Thauvette
Administrative Assistant
The Panel would also like to thank the Atlantic Province Economic Council (APEC), the Institute for Public Policy Research (IRPP), the Public Policy Forum (PPF), Mado Desforges, the Canada West Foundation (CWF) and the Simon Fraser University Public Policy Program (SFUPPP) for coordinating and inviting people to the regional roundtables. A special thank you to the report production team and to the people who are the real voices in this report: the stakeholders, academics who provided the expert advice, representatives of provincial, territorial and federal governments who guided us through the regional and policy dimensions in respective jurisdictions and finally to Canadians and associations who we were not able to meet but who took the time to register their ideas through formal submissions.