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Expert Panel on Older Workers

Members of The Expert Panel on Older Workers

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

Acknowledgments

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:

Members of the Secretariat to The Expert Panel

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

Other Secretariat Support

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.

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Date Modified:
2008-07-22