Leadership Candidates: Progress Summit and Broadbent Institute

leadership candidates: The French presidential election saw two non-establishment candidates fight to reverse an economic slump plaguing one of the EU's primary economies, according to Rabble. Even in North America, the election of Donald Trump in the United States spawned similar sentiments from leadership candidates for the Conservative Party of Canada. As a byproduct of populism, the United Kingdom voted on a referendum to leave the European Union based on a message of anti-immigration and protectionism. On the first weekend in April, Ottawa, Ontario was host to the Broadbent Institute's 2017 Progress Summit. On the panel was Desmond Cole, Fr d rick Guillaume Dufour, Ania Skrzpek, and Ed Broadbent. One such panel discussed social democracy and whether it is the way forward amidst a swell of populism. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.