CAPITALISM & MORALITY: CALGARY (2023)
Speakers
Here are some of the finest minds to discuss the economics and philosophy of liberty:
Maxime Bernier
Maxime Bernier is a Canadian politician who founded and leads the People's Party of Canada (PPC). Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Bernier left the caucus in 2018 to form the PPC. He was the member of Parliament (MP) for Beauce from 2006 to 2019 and served as a Cabinet minister in the Harper government. Prior to entering politics, Bernier worked in law, finance and banking.
Per Bylund
Per Bylund, PhD, is a Senior Fellow of the Mises Institute and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, and an Associate Fellow of the Ratio Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Bylund has published research in top journals in both entrepreneurship and management as well as in both the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics and the Review of Austrian Economics.
Jayant Bhandari
Jayant is an investment advisor, particularly in the natural resource sector. He has written on political, economic and cultural issues for the Liberty magazine, the Mises Institute (USA), Mises Institute (Canada), Mises Institute (India), Casey Research, Acting Man, International Man, Mining Journal, Zero Hedge, Lew Rockwell, Fraser Institute, Le Québécois Libre, Mauldin Economics, Northern Miner, Mining Markets etc. He is a contributing editor of the Liberty magazine.
Tim Moen
Tim Moen is a Canadian libertarian podcaster, blogger, activist and politician. He was the leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada from May 2014 to August 2021. Outside of politics, he is a firefighter, paramedic, business owner and filmmaker.
Derek Fildebrandt
Derek Fildebrandt is Publisher, President & CEO of Western Standard New Media Corp. based in the Calgary Headquarters. He served from 2015-2019 as an Alberta MLA & Wildrose finance critic. From 2009-2014 he worked for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
Cory Morgan
Founder and former leader of the Alberta Independence Party Currently, columnist for Epoch Times, Western Standard and host of the Cory Morgan show. Author of The Sovereigntist's Handbook. Lifelong Albertan and a resident of Priddis, Alberta.
Clayton Reeder
Clayton Reeder is a corporate finance advisor based in Calgary. He has worked on more than 100 mergers & acquisitions transactions for mid-market companies. He has organized libertarian-themed events in Calgary for more than a decade and frequently lectures on economics, finance, and political philosophy. His articles frequently appear in Pipeline Observer, covering topics such as oil, pipelines, property rights, and indigenous issues. His family operates a farm in central Alberta. He is one of the organizers of the Capitalism & Morality event in Calgary.
Peter Holle
Peter Holle is the founding President of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, an award-winning western Canadian based public policy think tank. Since its founding in 1997, Frontier has brought a distinctive and influential Prairie voice to regional and national debates over public policy in areas such as core public sector reform, housing, poverty, aboriginals, consumer-focused health care performance, equalization, rural policy and much more. Mr. Holle has worked extensively with public sector reform and has provided advisory services to various governments across Canada and the United States. His publications have appeared in various newspapers and journals including dozens of newspapers, the National Post and the Wall Street Journal. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is a member of various organizations including the Mont Pelerin Society, an international organization of classical liberals.
Danny Le Roy
Danny Le Roy is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Lethbridge and Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute. Danny's research focuses on the production, marketing and trade of agricultural commodities. He is particularly interested in identifying, delineating and quantifying the effects of interventionism. Danny teaches courses in agricultural systems modeling, commodity marketing, agricultural policy and microeconomics. He has been nominated twice for the Distinguished Teaching Award at the University of Lethbridge and has received the Agricultural Students Association Distinguished Teaching Award on two occasions. Danny was the Prairie Baseball Academy's Professor of the Year in 2018.
Marco Navarro-Génie
Dr. Navarro-Génie was born in Nicaragua and grew up as an adolescent in Montreal, where he fled the communist regime that strangles his native country to this day. In search of broader horizons, he moved to Alberta in 1990. After two decades in academe, he joined the free-market public policy world as Vice President of Research at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, where he remains a Senior Fellow. He was the fourth President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) based in Halifax, Nova Scotia and served briefly as Vice President for the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms. Navarro-Génie is co-founder and Director of Nurses for Sustainable Care (NFSC). He is former director of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights and Democracy), and served as president of CIVITAS (2017-2019). Dr. Navarro-Génie taught political Science in the Department of Policy Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary, at St. Mary’s College, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), the University of Calgary, and Concordia University in Montreal. Dr. Navarro-Génie comments regularly in local, national and international media on issues of government, politics, and public policy. He is author of hundreds of articles, several policy reports, and three books. His latest book, co-written with Barry Cooper, is Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic (2023).
Josh Andrus
Josh Andrus is the Executive Director of Project Confederation at the Alberta Institute, an independent, libertarian-minded public policy think tank that aims to advance personal freedom and choice in Alberta. Josh is a fourth-generation Albertan from Drumheller and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Lethbridge, majoring in Economics and minoring in Political Science. Prior to joining the Alberta Institute, Josh worked as the Executive Director for a grassroots advocacy organization and volunteered in several political and policy roles.
Darcy Gerow
Darcy Gerow is the host of the Darcy Gerow Podcast and organizer of Capitalism & Morality, Calgary. He has worked for the Libertarian Party of Canada and the People's Party of Canada.
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