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With more than 700,000 new jobs created in Ontario since 2018, manufacturing employment at its highest level in 15 years, and $11 billion in new investments attracted last year alone, the province is witnessing record growth across a variety of key industries, including the automotive, life sciences, tech and manufacturing sectors.



Join Ontario’s Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade, the Hon. Vic Fedeli, for a keynote speech and fireside chat, where he will share insights into how the province has been supporting the revival of Ontario’s auto manufacturing sector and birth of a fully integrated EV supply chain, supporting transformation in the life sciences sector, and creating the climate for job creation in every region of the province.

Our energy system is undergoing extraordinary change.

We are working to move from fossil fuels to renewables and more sustainable power systems in electricity generation and in our use of products, such as EV cars. We are doing this at a time when the demand for energy is only growing.

By any estimation, the transition in generation alone – moving from coal and natural gas to renewables such as wind, solar and nuclear – is an Industrial Revolution-level undertaking. Even in a perfect world, this transition was never going to be easy, and it is only going to be made more complicated by the realities of cyber threats, geopolitical realities, and a world-wide supply chain crunch.

Please join The Empire Club of Canada on June 12th for The Great Energy Transition event featuring this curated panel of energy insiders – as they discuss how we will build out our new reliable and greener energy supply against these unprecedented headwinds.

Featuring special remarks by IESO’s President and CEO, Lesley Gallinger

Shelley Babin

In the last provincial election, the people of Ontario gave Premier Ford and the Ontario PCs a historic mandate to build.

Prabmeet Sarkaria, Ontario’s Minister of Transportation, has been tasked with delivering the government’s plan to invest almost $100 billion over the next decade in new roads, highways, public transit, and other critical transportation infrastructure. From generational projects like Ontario Line and Highway 413, to first-in-Canada legislation, hear Minister Sarkaria’s vision for a better, faster, safer transportation future in Ontario.

Guest Speakers:


Skylar Park | Olympian and Pan American Champion, Team Canada

David Shoemaker | Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General, Canadian Olympic Committee
Bruny Surin | Chef de Mission, Team Canada at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Devin Heroux (Moderator) | CBC Reporter, CBC News and Sports



What does it take to qualify for the biggest multi-sport event on earth? How do you prepare to perform in front of four billion viewers? How do you balance the priorities of 206 National Olympic Committees? And how does Team Canada move more than 350 athletes, with all their equipment and hundreds of support staff and fans around the world every two years?

Join David Shoemaker, CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee and Bruny Surin, Team Canada’s Chef de Mission for Paris 2024, alongside Olympian, Pan American Champion, and Paris Qualified Taekwondo athlete Skylar Park, for a peak behind the scenes of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games moderated by veteran CBC Sports anchor Andi Petrillo.

Don’t miss this event at the Empire Club of Canada to experience this moment of patriotism in celebration of Canada’s Olympic achievements and our athletes.

Ontario’s energy sector is undergoing a profound and rapid transformation, which Hydro One is uniquely positioned to enable. Getting it right is critical given the significant current and planned economic development in the province.



Join us as Hydro One’s President and CEO David Lebeter, in his inaugural address to the Empire Club, shares how Hydro One is thinking and acting differently to meet evolving customer expectations and how its industry-leading 50-50 equity partnerships with First Nations are reshaping the future.

Event: Where Online Harms Have Real World Consequences: The Case for Legislating Against Harm and Hate 


Speaker: Hon. Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Government of Canada



We expect to live in safe communities. We should expect the same thing in our online world, especially when it comes to protecting our kids and ensuring that everyone is able to express their opinions without being exposed to hate.

Please join Hon. Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada as he lays out the federal government’s plan to tame some of the worst excesses of life online, and protect the rights of all Canadian who wish to express themselves without fear