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Canada’s philanthropic sector holds at least $85 billion in assets, and that’s likely grown since COVID began. The stewarding of that money and the power imbalance it builds deserve scrutiny — and requires transformation, speakers agreed.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, communities are taking a fresh look at the importance of localization of everything from procurement to tourism. This is difficult in a highly globalized world where corporations and capital are rarely rooted in a single community.
The pandemic is an opportunity to radically reimagine the ways Canadian government and civil society cares for people, say Sarah Schulman and Gord Tulloch — but to do so, both sectors need a deeper understanding of the problems embedded into our social safety nets.