Prime Minister Mark Carney and his minority Liberal government will release their first budget on November 4. Western University experts are available to speak with media on a range of topics, including election probability if the budget fails to pass, trade and economics, nation-building projects, the national school food program, AI policy, immigration, housing and homelessness.
Finance and Budgets
Mahmood Nanji
Lawrence Centre Policy Fellow, Ivey Business School
Areas of expertise: Development of budgets, tariffs and trade, tax administration; former Associate Deputy Minister at Ontario’s Ministry of Finance.
Politics of Budgets
Laura Stephenson
Professor and Chair, Political Science
Areas of expertise: Canadian politics, elections, voter attitudes and public opinion, electoral engagement with politics.
Trade and Economics
Fraser Johnson
Professor, Ivey Business School; Leenders Supply Chain Management Association Chair
Areas of expertise: Impact of tariffs on the automotive sector, supply chains and food prices.
Andreas Schotter
Professor, Ivey Business School
Areas of expertise: Canada-U.S. trade relations, impact of tariffs, international business, emerging markets.
Nation Building Projects
Wyatt Bain
Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences; Robert W. Hodder Chair in Economic Geology
Areas of expertise: Critical minerals, critical mineral resource projects in Canada.
Samantha Gateman
Assistant Professor, Chemistry
Areas of expertise: Nuclear waste storage, safety and small modular nuclear reactors, corrosion science.
Brandon Schaufele
Associate Professor, Ivey Business School; Director, Ivey Energy Policy and Management
Areas of expertise: Energy policy, agricultural economics, environmental economics.
Canada’s National School Food Program
Danielle Battram
Associate Professor, Director, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences; registered dietitian
Areas of expertise: Effective nutrition and food education, food behaviours and practices, food literacy in children and adolescents, household economics.
Peggy O’Neil
Assistant Professor, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Areas of expertise: School nutrition programs, national food and nutrition programs, housing and homelessness.
Jamie Seabrook
Professor, Schulich Medicine & Dentistry, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Areas of expertise: How diet and nutrition influence health outcomes, maternal and child nutrition.
Federal AI Policies
Mark Daley
Chief AI Officer; Professor, Computer Science
Areas of expertise: Large language models in AI, implications of AI across organizations and industry.
Joanna Redden
Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies
Areas of expertise: Development of federal AI guidelines, AI and datafication, government use of AI, political implications of AI, data harms.
Immigration
Victoria Esses
Professor, Psychology; Director, Centre for Research on Migration and Ethnic Relations
Areas of expertise: Border measures, refugee flows, Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) responses to refugees, immigration and cultural diversity, ethnic relations.
Michael Haan
Associate Professor, Sociology; Director, Statistics Canada Research Data Centre at Western
Areas of expertise: Demographics, education, labour force, research on immigrant and refugee settlement.
Housing and Homelessness
Abe Oudshoorn
Associate Professor, Nursing
Areas of expertise: Homelessness, housing policy, health equity, community health.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Primary: Justin Zadorsky, Media Relations Officer, Western University, 226.377.1673 (mobile), jzadorsk@uwo.ca.
For Ivey experts: Ivan Langrish, Associate Director, Media Strategy, Ivey Business School, 416-203-0664 (office), 416-427-6337 (mobile), ilangrish@ivey.ca
