Plenary Session Speakers Plenary Session 4: Roundtable on the Social Transfer Saturday June 18, 2005 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Speaker: Peter Bleyer President Canadian Council on Social Development Biography Since earning his PhD at the London School of Economics, Peter Bleyer has spent much of his career specializing in outreach and knowledge mobilization. Most recently he has acted as a consultant providing strategic advice and services to a wide range of public and voluntary sector organizations. Previously, Peter spent eight years as Executive Director of the Council of Canadians. In 2005 Peter accepted a 2-year posting as Interim President of the Canadian Council on Social Development. Speaker: Dr. Barbara Cameron Associate Professor of Political Science York University Biography Barbara Cameron holds a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Toronto. She is Associate Professor of Political Science at York University's Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies where her teaching and research focuses on social rights, public policy and federalism. As part of the SSHRC-funded "Social Rights Accountability Project", she is working in partnership with the Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada to monitor the negotiation and implementation of intergovernmental agreements related to early learning and child care. Recent publications related to the conference panel include "The Social Union, Executive Power and Social Rights" published in the Spring/Summer 2004 issue of Canadian Woman Studies and "Accounting for Rights and Money in Canada's Social Union" forthcoming in the volume Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Governance. She is currently completing a manuscript on Accountability Regimes for the Canadian Social Transfer. Speaker: Stephen Kerstetter Social Policy Researcher Biography Steve Kerstetter is a free-lance social policy researcher, a research associate of the BC office of the Canadan Centre for Policy Alternatives, and a member of the co-ordinating committee of First Call, the BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition. He also teaches university courses on Canadian social policy. He was a journalist for the Canadian Press in Winnipeg and Ottawa before joining the staff of the National Council of Welfare in 1988, where he worked until 2000. Kerstetter was the principal author of many reports for the National Council of Welfare, and he is the author of Rags and Riches: Wealth Inequality in Canada, published by the CCPA.