Jeffrey Simpson

Author, Journalist, TV personality and Officer of the Order of Canada.

As The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist since 1984, Jeffrey Simpson knows domestic and international issues.

Simpson has won the Governor-General's award for nonfiction writing; the National Magazine Award for political writing; and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. His views have been published in Saturday Night, the Report on Business Magazine, The Journal of Canadian Studies and The Queen's Quarterly. He has lectured at Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, Johns Hopkins, Maine, and California universities and more than a dozen universities in Canada.

In 1993-94, Mr. Simpson was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He has also been a Skelton-Clark fellow and Brockington Visitor at Queen's University. He has been a John V. Clyne fellow at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta and a member of the Georgetown University Leadership seminar. He serves on a number of boards of various universities, including the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.

His publications include: Discipline of Power, Spoils of Power, Faultlines: Struggling For a Canadian Vision, The Anxious Years, Star-Spangled Canadians, The Friendly Dictatorship and Hot Air published in 2007.

As Jeffrey Simpson is bilingual, he regularly contributes to television and radio programs in both official languages. He is a sought-after speaker at major conferences in Canada and abroad.

Topics:

HOT AIR: Fixing Canada’s Climate Change Catastrophe
Many presentations on energy and climate change are: (a) terrifying or (b) academic or (c) quirky, advocating a single, neat solution likes solar or wind power, or a population on bicycles. This presentation is different. It starts with an alarming brief description of the climate threat to Canada. Then it shifts to an equally alarming description of how Canadians have been betrayed by their politicians ("We're working on it!"), their industrialists ("Things aren't that bad, really, and voluntary guidelines will be good enough."), and even their environmentalists ("Energy efficiency can be profitable, and people can change their lifestyles, no problem!"). All of this, of course, reinforces the myths that forceful policies are not needed. Having summarized the situation, and the trends we are facing, Hot Air then lays out in convincing and easily understandable terms the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades. It shows how these policies can be designed to have minimal negative effects. It even provides results from a highly credible energy-economy model that has been used internationally by many authorities, including the most advanced think tanks, to assess the full economic impacts of different policies. With evidence from other countries that are successfully addressing climate change, Hot Air shows why these are the only policies that will work -- and why this is a matter of life and death for us all.
How do We Make the Canadian Economy More Competitive?
International Issues
What's Doing in Politics?
Where Should Tax Policy Go?
Why Does Canada's Economy Lag that of the United States?

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Author, Journalist, TV personality and Officer of the Order of Canada.

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