Karim Bardeesy
- Career
- Journalist, policy advisor, executive director of The Dais (Toronto Metropolitan University public policy think tank)
- Political Experience
- Deputy Principal Secretary to the Premier of Ontario, Kathleen Wynne; Elected MP for Taiaiako'n—Parkdale—High Park in 2025
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Business & Financial Interests
Before entering federal politics, Karim Bardeesy had a career focused on public policy and academia. He was a co-founder and the executive director of the Ryerson Leadership Lab, an organization at Toronto Metropolitan University focused on policy and leadership development. Bardeesy also has extensive experience in provincial government, having served as the Director of Policy for former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and later for Premier Kathleen Wynne. His earlier career included work as a journalist.
Key Relationships & Connections
Karim Bardeesy has well-documented professional ties to senior figures in the Ontario Liberal Party. He served as a key policy advisor and eventually Director of Policy for two former Ontario Premiers, Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne. Through his work with the Leadership Lab, he also has connections within academia and public policy circles at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Mr. Speaker, as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, I want to commend the minister for making historic investments in science and research under budget 2024. I commend the bill we are debating today. I want to ask particularly about employee ownership trusts. I was at an event that celebrated the 25th anniversary of Social Capital Partners, a very important organization that led
Mr. Speaker, we have the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7. We have the highest foreign direct investment in this country in 18 years, at almost $100 billion. We have the highest exports on record, including a 31% increase in exports to Europe. These are signs of our resilience and the strength of our economy. Our plan is starting to work, despite the trade action that is being launched. We
Mr. Speaker, before I came to this place, I taught undergraduate students for 15 years, and I know the number that COVID did and now the trade war is doing on them. What do we do when a number is being done on young people? We build them up and help them with hard skills and soft skills. That is why we have the team Canada strong plan with 100,000 apprenticeships. This summer we have 32,000 jobs
Mr. Speaker, our plan is investing in jobs and is supporting those private sector innovators that are bringing jobs, including to places like York Region in the member's region, where AMD has a major facility and is centralizing its innovation supports in York Region, in Markham, bringing thousands of jobs. I recently visited the University of Toronto's Master of Science in applied computing
What private sector, data-safe sources are most germane to this? Obviously, we have some concentration in the economy, which creates some issues, but it also creates pools of data that are maybe larger than they are in some other sectors.
Thank you. Thanks to all the panellists. I have a few questions about company formation and capital accumulation, and a couple of questions about the relationship between AI adoption and worker displacement. We heard from the previous panel about the prospect of an assurance and insurance economy around AI. Now, from this panel, we're hearing more about the opportunities around data and data
That's correct, yes.
Mr. Chair, that's not a problem, given the schedule we just set. I assume we're going to adopt Mr. Ste‑Marie's amendment. In the spirit of co-operation, I want to make sure that we'll also discuss my subamendment.
In English, we would strike “Report its findings and recommendations to the House” and adopt the following language instead: “Pursuant to Standing Order 109, the committee request that the government table a comprehensive response to the report.” et, conformément à l'article 109 du Règlement, le Comité demande au gouvernement de déposer une réponse globale au rapport. In French: In the spirit
Thank you very much. I want to start with Mr. Kabbara. Given your commentary about the tailpipe emission standards being, perhaps, important as an investment direction signal, could you elaborate a bit more on that and on what kinds of signals it sends exactly?
Thank you very much. I have a couple of questions now for Ms. Weitzman. Ms. Weitzman, thank you. You put on an event in Toronto last week where both I and Ms. O'Rourke spoke and visited with some of the many companies you referred to. My first question is about that network of companies. Could you speak to the state of maturity of the sector in Canada and the number of start-ups that you're
Once again, if we adopted the subamendment to have three meetings, they would be the 20th, the 23rd and the 27th for this study. What would April 30 be?