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As a new U.S. administration issues repeated threats to impose punishing tariffs on Canadian exports, the IRPP hosted a panel discussion on how to address the intersecting affordability and climate crises. 

Increasing costs from extreme weather events, uncertainty about energy and supply chains and added pressure on already inadequate infrastructure and housing mean new, comprehensive solutions are needed to keep Canadians safe. The panel focused on how to protect households from the rising cost of living, how to minimize the impacts of extreme weather events and how to keep affordable food on the table. 

Hosted in partnership with the Affordability Action Council, the panel featured Tyler Meredith, a former economic policy adviser to the Liberal government, Kathleen Monk, former director of communications to NDP leader Jack Layton, Karen Restoule, vice-president of Toronto-based Crestview Strategy and senior fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute and was moderated by Jennifer Ditchburn.

This podcast is the audio from that discussion.

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Karen Restoule
Karen Restoule is vice-president of Toronto-based Crestview Strategy and senior fellow at Macdonald-Laurier Institute.
Kathleen Monk
Kathleen Monk is a veteran campaign strategist and an award-winning communicator. She works with businesses, labour unions and non-profits, to build strategies that shape public opinion and secure public affairs victories. Kathleen served as director of communications for the late Jack Layton. Before entering her career in politics, Kathleen worked in newsrooms in Toronto, Ottawa, and Washington, D.C. She appears weekly on CTV “Sunday Strategy Session” and CTV Power Play’s “Front Bench Panel.”
Tyler Meredith
Tyler Meredith is a former economic policy adviser to the Liberal government and was formerly the research director for IRPP's research in pension reform and labour market policy. He is currently a partner at Meredith Boesskenkool & Phillips and Fellow at University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and Fellow at the Maytree Foundation.
Jennifer Ditchburn
Jennifer Ditchburn is the President and CEO of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. From 2016 to 2021, she was the Editor-in-Chief of the IRPP’s influential digital magazine, Policy Options. Prior to joining the IRPP, Jennifer spent two decades covering national and parliamentary affairs for The Canadian Press and for CBC Television. She is the co-editor with Graham Fox of The Harper Factor: Assessing a Prime Minister’s Policy Legacy (McGill-Queen’s).

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