Canada Water Agency Experts Roundtable

Public Policy Chair, Thomas Axworthy and representatives of Massey College partners, the Walter and Duncan Gordon Foundation, and the Forum on Leadership on Water (FLOW), will participate in an experts roundtable convened by Canadian Environment Minister, Steven Guilbeault and the Canada Water Agency (CWA). The CWA will host the roundtable its Winnipeg headquarters from 1pm to 2pm, on October 16th, 2024.

The deliberations will be governed by the Chatham House Rule: that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

Agenda

The following three questions will be discussed:

1. How can the Canada Water Agency (CWA) best coordinate water management with provincial, territorial, municipal, and First nation governments, given their overlapping water jurisdictions?
2. What are the best ways for the CWA to work with water community NGOs to educate the public?
3. What should the CWA's priorities be for the next 5 years (and how should the CWA translate these priorities into measurable outcomes)?

Participants

• Tom Axworthy (Public Policy Chair, Massey College)
• Katherine Balpataky (DataStream (Gordon Foundation))
• Tasha Beeds (Water Walker & Indigenous Advisor, CWA)
• Kathleen BlueSky (Treaty One)
• Soula Chronopoulos (President, AquaAction (de Gaspe Foundation))
• Terry Duguid (Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister & Special Advisor for Water)
• Richard Farthing-Nichol (Senior Advisor, CWA)
• Mark Fisher (President & CEO, Council of Great Lakes Region)
• Pauline Gerrard (International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD))
• Steven Guilbeault (Environment Minister, Canada)
• Emily Hines (Director, FLOW)
• Chelsea Lobson (Program Director, Lake Winnipeg Foundation)
• Nastinia Mullin (CEO, Manitoba Inuit Association)
• Michael Nadler (CEO, Ducks Unlimited)
• Merrell-Ann Phare (Commissioner, International Joint Commission)
• Marci Riel (Manitoba Métis Federation)
• Corinne Schuster-Wallace (Executive Director, Global Institute for Water Security)
• Kinnan Stevenson-French (Environmental Project Coordinator, Peguis First Nation)
• Meghan Sullivan (Director, Indigenous Partnerships, External Relations, & Communications, CWA)
• Nicole Wilson (Canada Research Chair, Arctic Environmental Change & Governance)
• Daniel Wolfish (President, CWA)
• Fred Wrona (Chief Scientist, Gov't of Alberta, Dept of Environment & Parks | ADM, Environmental Monitoring & Sciences Division)
• Koral Wysocki (Partnerships Manager, ALUS)

Resources 

• Canada Water Agency Launch Press Release: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/canada-strengthens-protection-of-freshwater-with-launch-of-standalone-canada-water-agency-888906434.html
• Canada Water Agency Launch CPAC Video: https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/federal-govt-launches-canada-water-agency--october-16-2024?id=581dadd8-6984-453b-b11e-79f847214a81
• A chronological outline of the activities and publications of Massey College and its partners which contributed to creation of the Canada Water Agency: https://gwf.usask.ca/outputs-data/major-outcomes/water-security-4-canada.php

Registration

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