Beyond Borders: A Panel on Care Ethics in Canadian Trade Policy

What would it mean for Canadian trade policy to center care, accountability, and reciprocity — not just competitiveness and profit.

This panel brings together scholars, legal advocates, and community practitioners to explore how care ethics can be made actionable in trade policy. Panelists will discuss the limits of voluntary inclusion frameworks, how trade affects marginalized communities, and what care-based approaches could look like in Canada’s regional and global economic relationships.

The panel will explore:

• How care ethics can be embedded in trade agreements and policy tools
• What mechanisms exist — and what’s missing — to make care enforceable
• How trade policy impacts Indigenous, immigrant, and marginalized communities
• How solidarity and accountability-based models challenge profit-driven systems

Speakers

• Dr. Donal Sen Gill, Concordia University
• Vivienne Walz, public health and community health practitioner
• Hannah Ostiguy Hopp, SEIZE
• Dimitri Lascaris, lawyer, journalist, and advocate for corporate accountability

The talk is open to students and community members interested in trade, care ethics, and social justice.