The J.S. Palmer Conference was created in 2010 to bring together some of the finest minds across the country to discuss public policy issues of high priority to the public sector and to Canada. Dr. Tim O’Neill, founder and president of O’Neill Strategic Economics and former Executive Vice-President and Chief Economist of BMO, will open the conference with the keynote address. The J.S. Palmer conference includes an extraordinary group of speakers and presenters. They include, Dr. Pamela Palmater, Mi’Kmaq lawyer, professor and activist; Tanya Davis, spoken word poet; Dr. Andrew Light, Special Advisor to the White House on Climate Change; Dr. Teo Dagi, neurosurgeon, neuroscientist, and ethicist; Nora Young, CBC Spark host and author; Phil Fontaine, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations; and Jeremy Webber, Dean of Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria.