Idlewyld Inn
London, Ontario, February 3-4, 2005

Workshop Agenda

•  Cluster's Research Areas 

•  Potential Structure and Organization of the Cluster

•  Some Examples of Research for the Cluster

Presentations of Research Areas

• The Labour Force, Aging, and Inter-generational Equity
  Rosemary Venne

• Mortality, Morbidity, and the Changing Nature of the Elderly Population
  Robert Bourbeau

• Immigration, Internal Migration, and the Distribution of Canada’s Population
  Monica Boyd

• Changing Composition of Canada’s Population: Aboriginal and minority groups
  Frank Trovato and Zheng Wu

• Low Fertility in the Context of Changing Family and Work Obligations
  Céline LeBourdais

See also Cluster Research, revised based on the workshop's presentations and included in the final Cluster Concept Paper.

Discussion of Potential Structure and Organization of the Cluster

• Preliminary Thoughts on a Cluster Design
  Zenaida Ravanera
  See Cluster Structure Design included in the final Cluster Concept Paper.

Demographic Research and Policy: Some Examples for the Cluster

• Current and Future Social Security Public Spending for Québec
  Jacques Légaré

• LifePaths: An Overview of Statistics Canada's Micro-Simulation Model
  Geoff Rowe
  For the overview in French, see LifePaths Overview - French
  See also Statistics Canada's webpage on LifePaths:

  www.statcan.ca/english/spsd/LifePaths.htm

  nwww.statcan.ca/francais/spsd/LifePaths_f.htm

• Stationary Population as Theoretical Concept and as Policy Vision for Canada
  Anatole Romaniuc

• The Bongaarts' Model of Policy Trade-off
  Alain Gagnon

Participants

Researchers: Robert Bourbeau, Université du Montréal; Monica Boyd, University of Toronto; Eric Fong, University of Toronto; Janice Keefe, Mount St. Vincent University; Celine Le Bourdais, McGill University; Jacques Ledent, l'INRS, Centre urbanisation, culture et société; Jacques Légare, Université du Montréal; Bill Marr, Wilfrid Laurier University; Susan McDaniel, University of Windsor; Robert Murdie, York University; Anatole Romaniuc, research consultant; Geoff Rowe, Statistics Canada; Alan Simmons, York University; Byron Spencer, McMaster University; Frank Trovato, University of Alberta; Rosemary Venne, University of Saskatchewan; Richard Wanner, University of Calgary; Zheng Wu, University of Victoria

Partners: Marie-France Pacquet, Finance Canada; Gordon Lenjosek, Social Development Canada; Maxime Fougere, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada; Terrance Hunsley, Policy Research Initiative; Stan Kustec, Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Jean Claude Menard, Office of the Chief Actuary; Elizabeth Ruddick, Citizenship and Immigration Canada; Pierre Turcotte, Statistics Canada; Mark Wheeler, Health Canada

Researchers from University of Western Ontario (workshop host): Teresa Abada; Rod Beaujot; G. Edward Ebanks; Rajulton Fernando; Alain Gagnon; Don Kerr;  Kevin McQuillan; and Zenaida R. Ravanera.