MISWAA Task Force and Working Group

While the views expressed in the report of the MISWAA Task Force are not necessarily identical with those of each member or organization listed, all signatories have a common determination to address the challenges the report describes.

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Task Force Co-chairs

David Pecaut
Chair, Toronto City Summit Alliance; Senior Partner, The Boston Consulting Group

Susan Pigott
Chief Executive Officer, St. Christopher House

Task Force Members

Ken Battle
President, The Caledon Institute

Jill Black
MISWAA Working Group Co-chair and Project Director; Consultant, J.E. Black & Company Ltd.

Peter Bleyer
President, Canadian Council on Social Development

Paul Born
President, Tamarack Institute

Bob Brown
Ex-Chair, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Joanne Campbell
Vice President, Community Relations, Centre for Addiction & Mental Health

John Cartwright
President, Toronto & York Region Labour Council

Jacquie Chic
Director of Advocacy & Legal Services, Income Security Advocacy Centre

Martin Connell
Chair, Toronto Community Foundation

Sue Cox
Past Executive Director, Daily Bread Food Bank

David Crombie
President & CEO, Canadian Urban Institute

Mary Louise Dickson
Partner, Dickson, MacGregor, Appell LLP

Debbie Douglas
Executive Director, Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants

Don Drummond
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, TD Bank Financial Group

Rev. Susan Eagle
City Councilor, City of London

Ken Georgetti
President, Canadian Labour Congress

Nathan Gilbert
Executive Director, Laidlaw Foundation

Amy Go
Executive Director, Yee Hong Centre

Anne Golden
President & CEO, The Conference Board

Malcolm Hamilton
Partner, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

Chaviva Hosek
President & CEO, Canadian Institute For Advanced Research

Ahmed Hussen
Past President, The Regent Park Community Council

Warren Jestin
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist, Scotiabank

David Kerr
Chairman, Falconbridge Limited

Karen Kuwahara
President, Nestle Purina Canada

Deena Ladd
Coordinator, Workers' Action Centre

Frances Lankin
President & CEO, United Way of Greater Toronto

Ernie Lightman
Professor, University of Toronto School of Social Work, Social Assistance in the New Economy (SANE) Project

Hugh Mackenzie
Independent

Judith Maxwell
Past President, Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc.

Bill MacKinnon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, KPMG

Michael Mendelson
Senior Scholar, The Caledon Institute

Peter Nares
Executive Director, Social and Enterprise Development Innovations

Marvyn Novick
Professor of Social Policy, Ryerson University

Gail Nyberg
Executive Director, Daily Bread Food Bank

Ratna Omidvar
Executive Director, The Maytree Foundation

François Paroyan
Senior Director, Labour Relations, George Weston Limited

Charles Pascal
Executive Director, Atkinson Charitable Foundation

Bob Rae
Partner, Goodmans LLP

Bill Robson
Senior Vice President & Research Director, C.D. Howe Institute

Anne Sado
President, George Brown College - The Toronto City College

Yves Savoie
Executive Director, Family Service Association of Toronto

Katherine Scott
Vice President Research, Canadian Council on Social Development

Ed Segalowitz
Vice President, United Jewish Appeal Federation

Peter Sloly
Superintendent, Toronto Police Service

John Stapleton
MISWAA Working Group Co-chair and Research Director; St. Christopher House Fellow, Community Undertaking Social Policy

Janice Gross Stein
Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management; Director, Munk Centre for International Relations, University of Toronto

George Thomson
Executive Director, National Judicial Institute

Sherrie Tingley
Social Policy Activist

Ex Officio Task Force Members

Shirley Hoy
City Manager, City of Toronto

Judi Longfield
Past MP Whitby-Oshawa and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour and Housing

Dr. Deb Matthews
MPP London North Centre and Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Community and Social Services

Hugh Segal
Senator; President, Institute for Research on Public Policy

Working Group, Community Reference Group and Support Team

Working Group Co-chairs

Jill Black
MISWAA Project Director; Consultant, J.E. Black & Company Ltd.

John Stapleton
MISWAA Research Director and St. Christopher House Fellow

Working Group Members

Pedro Antunes
Director, Economic Forecasting, The Conference Board of Canada

Keith Banting
Professor, Queen's School of Policy Studies

Pedro Barata
Outreach & Communications, The Atkinson Charitable Foundation

Harry Beatty
Counsel, BakerLaw

Juana Berinstein
Past Policy Coordinator, Workers' Action Centre

Sarah Blackstock
Research & Policy Analyst, Income Security Advocacy Centre

Dan Buchanan
Sigma-3 Policy Research Inc.

Janet Dassinger
Executive Director, Labour Education Centre

Carol Deacon
Past Research & Policy Analyst, Income Security Advocacy Centre

Greg deGroot-Maggetti
Socio-economic Policy Analyst, Citizens for Public Justice

Rick Eagan
Community Development Coordinator, St. Christopher House

Maureen Fair
Director, Community Response and Advocacy, St. Christopher House

Aaron Good
Case Team Leader, Bain & Company

Shelly Gordon
CUPE Research

John Greenwood
Chief Executive Officer, Social Research & Demonstration Corporation

Dean Herd
University of Toronto School of Social Work, SANE Project

Andrew Jackson
National Director, Social and Economic Policy, Canadian Labour Congress

Thomas Klassen
Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Public Policy and Administration Program, Department of Political Science, York University

Ernie Lightman
Professor, University of Toronto School of Social Work, SANE Project

Pamela Loprest
Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute

Susan MacDonnell
Director of Research, United Way of Greater Toronto

Gillian Manning
Vice President Relationship Management, TD Asset Management Inc.

Melodie Mayson
Co-executive Director, Neighbourhood Legal Services

Michael Mendelson
Senior Scholar, The Caledon Institute

Andy Mitchell
University of Toronto School of Social Work, SANE Project

Liz Mulholland
Principal, Mulholland Consulting

Alain Noël
Professor, University of Montreal

Michael Oliphant
Manager, Daily Bread Food Bank, Dept. of Public Education, Policy & Research

Finn Poschmann
Associate Director of Research & Senior Policy Analyst, C.D. Howe Institute

Ron Saunders
Director, Work Network, Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc.

Barney Savage
Senior Policy Advisor, United Way of Greater Toronto

Katherine Scott
Vice President Research, Canadian Council on Social Development

Gilles Seguin
Webmaster, Canadiansocialresearch.net

Richard Shillington
Principal, Tristat Resources

Anne Tweddle
MISWAA Research Analyst

Nancy Vander Plaats
Community Legal Worker, Scarborough Community Legal Services

Mary Webb
Senior Economist, Scotiabank

Diane Wintermute
Executive Director, East Toronto Community Legal Services

Armine Yalnizyan
Research Director, Community Social Planning Council of Toronto

Tom Zizys
Consultant, Downtown East Community Development Collective

Ex Officio Working Group Members

Lydia Fitchko
Director of Social Policy, Analysis and Research, Social Development, Finance and Administration Division, City of Toronto

Alex Johnston
Special Assistant - Justice Policy, Office of the Premier

Alan Meisner
Planning Analyst - Social Policy, Analysis and Research, Social Development, Finance and Administration Division, City of Toronto

Observers

Joe T. Manion
Director, Social Services - Strategic Program Development Community & Neighbourhood Services, City of Toronto

Stuart Sykes
Policy Research Officer, Policy Research Initiative

Core Members of the Community Reference Group

Lorraine Anderson
David Bishop
Fionna Blair
Randy Burton
Mike Crawford
Phillip Dufresne
Shelia Hellier
Mamoh Kakulatombo
Dwaine McDonald
Philip Olynyk
Patricia Rodriquez
Sukanya Shankar
Shuyang Wang

MISWAA Project Support Team

Anjana Dooling
Past Project Officer, Toronto City Summit Alliance

Ayasha Mayr Handel
University of Toronto MSW Student Practicum, St. Christopher House

Meg Routley
Past Project Manager, Toronto City Summit Alliance

Miia Suokonautio
University of Toronto MSW Student Practicum, St. Christopher House