Public Policy Conference
What’s Next: Canadian-American Relations in the Age of Trump
A Discussion on What the Upcoming Trump Presidency Means for Canada
Sponsored by Massey College, the Bill Graham Centre, and the NATO Association of Canada
Date: Monday, January 20, 2025
Time: 8:30 am-3:00 pm, Toronto time
Cost: Free
Location: Via livestream (no RSVP required) or in person at Massey College (Junior Common Room and Upper Library), 4 Devonshire Place, Toronto, M5S 2E1 (please RSVP)
Welcome/Panel 1 – National Security & Foreign Policy
Panel 2 – The Border
Keynote Conversation with journalist Amanda Lang
Panel 3 – Canada’s Response to the Trump Challenge
About the Event
Join us for this one day conference, led by Massey College’s Chair in Public Policy Tom Axworthy, to discussion the future of Canada-US relationships.
The re-election of Donald Trump as President of the United States will create nearly unprecedented foreign policy, national security and economic challenges for Canada as the agenda of Mr. Trump is radically different from the consensus that has prevailed in Canada and many other allies of the US since the Second World War. Since the early 20th century, the United States has always been regarded as Canada’s friend: how do we cope if that assumption is no longer true? Join us at Massey College or on livestream on January 20, 2025, to explore What’s Next: Canadian-American Relations in the Age of Trump.
We will be joined by keynote speaker Amanda Lang who will be in conversation with Tom Axworthy.
Panelists/moderators include Jamie Watt, Christine Van Geyn, Tim Murphy, Soula Chronopoulus, Brian Topp, Marianne Luna, Rosemary McCarney, and Lorna Marsden.
Agenda:
8:30-9:00 am – Coffee & Snacks
9:00-10:30 am – Panel #1 – National Security and Foreign Policy
10:30am-12:00 pm – Panel #2 – The Border
12:00-12:30 pm – Lunch
12:30-1:30 pm – Keynote – Amanda Lang in Conversation with Tom Axworthy
1:30-3:00 pm – Panel #3 – Canada’s Response to the Trump Challenge
Keynote bio:
Award-winning business journalist Amanda Lang has been covering business in North America for 25 years. Lang is the host of Taking Stock, a weekly national television program airing across multiple Bell Media networks including BNN Bloomberg, CP24 and CTV News Channel. Taking Stock also airs as a weekly podcast and on the iHeart radio network. Lang is also a regular contributor to The Hub, a daily news and analysis platform. She was previously host of Bloomberg Markets, a global program airing in Canada on BNN Bloomberg and on the Bloomberg Television network globally. Prior to that, Lang was CBC’s senior business correspondent, reporting for its flagship nightly news program, The National, and host of The Exchange with Amanda Lang, a daily business program airing on CBC News Network. For five years before that, Lang hosted The Lang and O’Leary Exchange, with Kevin O’Leary. And prior to that the pair co-hosted SqueezePlay, on BNN, for 6 years.
Lang studied Architecture at the University of Manitoba, before becoming a journalist. Her first job in journalism was for the Globe and Mail, and subsequently Lang joined the Financial Post newspaper, where she became the paper’s New York correspondent. In New York she made the leap to television, where she first was part of the team that launched BNN and before long wound up at CNN as a reporter and anchor.
Lang is a former member of the board of directors of Covenant House Toronto, the largest agency in Canada serving homeless and at-risk youth.
Lang is also a best-selling author. The Power of Why (HarperCollins, October 2012) explores the connection between curiosity and success. The Beauty of Discomfort (HarperCollins, April 2017) examines how difficult change can be, and set out strategies for how to achieve it.