Daniel Drache

March 1-3, 2002

Organized by:
Daniel Drache, Director Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies
and Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto


Friday, March 1: Senate Chambers, York Hall C123, Glendon College, York University, 2275 Bayview Avenue

8:00am-8:30   Coffee

8:30am-9am   What Happened at Qatar?

Chair:   Daniel Drache, Director Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies

Speaker:

Brian Morrisey, Director General, Economic Policy Bureau, Ottawa

9:00am-10:30am   Panel I: TRIPS

Chair:   Daniel Drache

Speakers:

Keith Maskus, Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder

James Orbinski, Senior Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

10:30am-10:45am   Break

10:45am-12:30pm   Panel II: Services

Chair:   Robert Wai, Professor Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Speakers:

Robert Howse, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

Michelle Swenarchuk, Counsel and Director of International Programmes, Canadian Environmental Law Association

12:30pm-1:30pm   Lunch: Luncheon Speaker:


Guy de Jonquières, World Trade Editor, Financial Times, "What is the WTO For?"

1:30pm-3:30pm   Panel III: Agriculture

Chair:   Mike Gifford, Director General, Trade Policy, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (retired)

Speakers:

Suzanne Vinet, Chief Agriculture Negotiator, International Trade Policy Directorate, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Martin Sharp, Deputy High Commissioner, Australian High Commission

David Roberts, Deputy Director General, Directorate General for Agriculture, European Commission

3:30pm-3:45pm   Break

3:45pm-5pm   Panel IV: Trade, Environment & Labour

Chair:   Robert Wai, Professor Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

Speakers:

Steve Shrybman; Sack, Goldblatt, Mitchell (Ottawa)

Michael Trebilcock, University Professor and Professor of Law, University of Toronto

Jim Stanford, Economist, Canadian Auto Workers


Saturday, March 2: Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre University of Toronto, South House, Main Floor, 1 Devonshire Place

9:00am-9:30am   Coffee

9:30am-12:30pm   Panel V: Views from the Quad

Chair:   Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

Speakers:

Don Stephenson, Director General, Trade Policy Bureau, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Ambassador Carlo Trojan, Head of the Permanent Delegation for the European Commission in Geneva

Nobuo Tanaka, Director General of Multilateral Trade System Department, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan

Claude Barfield, Resident Scholar and Coordinator of Trade Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC

12:30pm-1:30pm   Lunch: Luncheon Speaker:


Jonathan Fried, Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance and G-7 Deputy for Canada "Outlook for Kananaskis"

1:30pm-3:30pm   Panel VI: Views from the South

Chair:   John Curtis, Senior Policy Advisor and Coordinator, Trade and Economic Policy, and Director of Trade and Economic Analysis, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada

Speakers:

Rashad Cassim, Executive Director, Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies (TIPS), Johannesburg, South Africa

Mário Marconini, Executive Director, Brazilian Centre on International Relations (CEBRI)

Amit Dasgupta, Director, South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Secretariat, Kathmandu, Nepal

3:30pm-3:45pm   Break

3:40pm-5:45pm   Panel VII: Views from Anti-Corporate Globalization NGOs

Chair:   John Kirton, Founder and Director of the G8 Research Group, University of Toronto

Speakers:

Raghav Narsalay, Economist, Focus on the Global South, India Programme

Tony Clarke, Director, Polaris Institute of Canada, Ottawa

Ronnie Hall, Trade Programme Manager, Friends of the Earth Europe, United Kingdom

Darrin Qualman, Executive Secretary, National Farmers Union and Via Campesina Canada


Sunday, March 3: Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre University of Toronto, South House, Main Floor, 1 Devonshire Place

9:30am-12:00pm   Panel VIII: The Future of Global Governance & the G7/G8

Chair:   George Haynal, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; and former Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Speakers:

Sylvia Ostry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto

Daniel Drache, Director, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University

Jan Aart Scholte, Associate, Centre for the Study of Globalization and Regionalization, University of Warwick

Gerald Helleiner, Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto



Special thanks to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade and the International Development Research Centre for providing core funding.