Thu, January 15, 2015 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Come and hear Brian Lee Crowley, head of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and Canada's leading commentator on social licence, for a discussion and roundtable on the new challenges facing economic development projects, and how they can be overcome.
One of the hottest issues on the natural resource frontier today is social licence: who has it, who needs it, who can get it? And as the importance of social licence grows, important questions need to be asked. For instance, does social licence give project opponents undemocratic authority to obstruct economic development? Or does it undermine the roles of public institutions responsible for assessing major projects?
Everyone is welcome. The roundtable is sponsored by the BC Maritime Employers Association.
This event is part of Policy@UBC, a global dialogue series that brings together public policy and global affairs experts from across North America to engage the UBC community around pressing public policy issues, both domestic and global in scope. The series is hosted by the Liu Institute for Global Issues, an interdisciplinary hub for research on global issues and emerging issues, in partnership with other units across campus and industry and community stakeholders.
Bio: Brian Lee Crowley has headed up the Macdonald-Laurier Institute (MLI) in Ottawa since its inception in March of 2010, coming to the role after a long and distinguished record in the think tank world. He was the founder of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) in Halifax, one of the country’s leading regional think tanks.