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Debating Deficits | Jillian Siskind
Tuesday, November 03 2009 8:00 PM

Debating Deficits

The Debate: Debating Deficits

Swimming in red ink. Time to tighten the belt?

Guests

Avery Shenfeld is Chief Economist at CIBC World Markets. He has served as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Toronto, and has lectured at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Janet Ecker is president of the Toronto Financial Services Alliance. She is a former MPP and Ontario Progressive Conservative finance minister.

Hershell Ezrin is the former chief of staff to Premier David Peterson. He is currently chief executive officer of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy.

Floyd Laughren sat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1971 to 1998 as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party, and served as finance minister and deputy premier, from 1990 to 1995, in the government of Bob Rae.

Producers

Stacey Dunseath is a producer for The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Previously, Stacey was a producer with Studio 2 for five years, and produced for CanWest's Prime Business and CTV's Canada AM. Stacey attended the University of Toronto (Canadian History), and then the British Columbia Institute of Technology (Broadcast Journalism).

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Guests

Jillian Siskind is the president of Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights and a former prosecutor with Canada’s Department of Justice.

Producers

Sandra Gionas is a producer for The Agenda with Steve Paikin. She has been at TVO for eleven years, first as a producer for the Daily Unit at Studio 2, and then as a producer for More 2 Life. She has covered health and education issues extensively for TVO. Sandra is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and Ryerson University’s School of Journalism. Follow Sandra on Twitter.

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