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    Program

 Final Papers Will Be Uploaded Sometime in October!


  All Conference sessions will be held at Osgoode Professional Development.

  For further information on location please reference Osgoode Professional Development for a detailed Map.


Friday September 11, 2009
8:15- 9:00
 

Registration

  Osgoode Professional Development Centre
1 Dundas Street West, 26th Floor
9:00
 

Welcome

Jinyan Li, Interim Dean

Lisa Philipps, Associate Dean of Research, Graduate, and Institutional Studies

9:10
 

Panel 1- The Tax Expenditure Idea: Key Debates

Chair:  Linda McQuaig

Speakers: Neil Brooks, Christopher Heady, Kathleen Lahey


10:40
 

Morning Break

11:00
 

Panel 2- International Trends in the Use of Tax Expenditures to Implement Social and Economic Policy

Chair:  Tim Edgar

Speakers: Eric Toder, Kerrie Sadiq, Rick Krever 


12:30
 

Lunch

1:30– 3:00
 

Panel 3- The Role of Tax Expenditures in Major Public Policy Areas:

Concurrent Panels

 

Health/Disability Policy

Chair: David Duff

Speakers: Tamara Larre, Dennis Raphael, Alan Macnaughton & Ling Chu

Business Incentives (Part 1)

Chair: Finn Poschmann

Speakers: Tim Edgar, Kim Brooks

Commentator:  Ed Kleinbard

Housing and Homelessness

Chair: Michael Shapcott

Speakers:  Dorothy Brown, Stephen Gaetz, George Fallis, Miranda Stewart

3:00
 

Afternoon Break

3:15– 4:45
 

Panel 4- The Role of Tax Expenditures in Major Public Policy Areas:

Concurrent Panels

 

Business Incentives (Part 2)

Chair: Neil Buchanan

Speakers: Amin Mawani, Jack Mintz and Matt Krzpkowski,

Daniel Sandler

Support for Low Income Workers and Families

Chair: Neil Brooks

Speakers: Jonathan Forman, Thaddeus Hwong

Commentator:  Jonathan Kesselman

4:45-5:00  

Information Session on Publishing the Papers

Lindsie Court, Canadian Tax Foundation

Lisa Philipps

 
6:30
 

Conference Dinner

 

The Metropolitan Hotel

108 Chestnut Street

Toronto, Ontario,

Canada, M5G 1R3

Saturday September 12, 2009
9:00-10:30
 

Panel 5- The Role of Tax Expenditures in Major Public Policy Areas:

Concurrent Panels

 

Environmental Policy

Chair:  John Tobin

Speakers:  David Duff, Janet Milne, Mark Winfield, Ellen Zweibel/Karen Cooper

Education Policy

Chair: Ben Alarie

Speakers: Christine Neill, Charlotte Crane, Joanne Magee

 
 
10:30
 

Morning Break

10:45-12:15
 

Panel 6- The Role of Tax Expenditures in Major Public Policy Areas:

Concurrent Panels


 

Funding the Charitable and Non-Profit Sector

Chair:  Archana Sridhar

Speakers: Adam Parachin, Sam Singer, Archana Sridhar

Savings and Pension Policy

Chair:  Kerrie Sadiq

Speakers:  Jinyan Li, Ben Alarie, Jon Kesselman

Commentator: Jonathan Forman

12:15-1:15
 

Lunch

1:15-2:45
 

Panel 7- Designing Tax Expenditures for the Future

Chair: Jinyan Li

Speakers: Lily Batchelder, Mark Burton, Ed Kleinbard


2:45-3:00
 

Afternoon Break

3:00-4:30
 

Panel 8- The Political Economy of Tax Expenditures

Chair: Kim Brooks

Speakers: Christopher Howard, Lisa Philipps


4:30   Closing Reception
4:30-4:45 
 

Closing Remarks

Lisa Philipps

    Osgoode Professional Development Centre
1 Dundas Street West, 26th Floor