Covid-19 Policies Roundtable - 9 December 2021 16:00-18:00 CET (European University Institute, Robert Schumann Centre) - virtual panel


This roundtable, discusses "The Pandemic in Canada in Comparative Perspective" is part of a larger workshop held locally in Florence on "The COVID-19 Pandemic and the European Union" taking place on 9-10 December 2021. The online roundtable that takes place on 9 December 2021 16:00-18:00 CET, is chaired by Renaud Dehousse, President of the European University Institute, with presentations by Ailish Campbell, Canadian Ambassador to the European Union; Louis Pauly, University of Toronto; Frédéric Mérand, University of Montreal and Kathy Brock, Queen’s University.



Panel topic: the COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented worldwide challenges, to the international economic and political order, but also to the European Union (EU). In the EU we often are ill-informed about policies elsewhere around the globe. This four-person panel discusses COVID-19 policies in Canada -- a decentralised federal state, the second largest territory in the world, with different provincial health jurisdictions choosing their policies sometimes differently from one another. It also places the Canadian policy to COVID-19 in comparative perspective. This roundtable is specifically open to a wider audience of scholars, students and policy-makers who may attend this event virtually from around the globe.