Building Canada's Engagement with Global Sustainable Development
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Hugh Segal, Master of Massey College, cordially invites you to a roundtable on the recent Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) report:
“Building Canada’s Engagement with Global Sustainable Development”
Featuring lead authors Margaret Biggs, former President of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and John McArthur, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution & UN Foundation
Discussants: Massey College Junior Fellows Chizoba Imoka and Digvijay Mehra
Chair: Brett House, Massey Visiting Scholar
Report abstract: The world is in the midst of a complex and dramatic set of transformations. The traditional view of “international development” as solely a matter of charity and moral importance, secondary to Canada’s hard interests, is long outdated. The complex, inter-related nature of contemporary global challenges demands a new mindset, a new coalition of actors, and even new terminology. These are the conclusions of a CIPS working group in their new report “Towards 2030: Building Canada’s Engagement with Global Sustainable Development.” The working group, comprised of leading academics, civil society leaders and former senior officials, argues that “global sustainable development" is central to Canada's prosperity, security, environment and global influence. They conclude, however, that Canadian society has not kept pace with the evolving global context and offer eight recommendations to kick start a generational shift – spanning academia, business, think tanks, philanthropy, civil society and all levels of government – to build Canada’s engagement with global sustainable development.
