DEFENCE DECONSTRUCTED PODCAST

December 30, 2022

On this episode of Defence Deconstructed, Kathleen Monk speaks to Christine Clarkson, Bill Ferreira, and Jeff Tasseron about the current labour issues and how the defence industry adapting to them.

This episode is an excerpt from our annual procurement conference, Putting Canadian Procurement on a War Footing, which took place on October 25th in Ottawa. This event was made possible thanks to the support of the Department of National Defence’s MINDS Program, our strategic sponsors Lockheed Martin Canada, General Dynamics, Irving Shipbuilding, and Davie Shipyard; Silver Sponsors the Royal Embassy of Norway in Ottawa and Innovation Norway; Bronze sponsors ATCO Frontec, BAE Systems Canada, Bombardier, The Boeing Company, and PAL Aerospace.

Guests:

• Christine Clarkson is Director of Human Resources at Thales.
• Bill Ferreira has been Executive Director at BuildForce Canada since August 2017.
• Jeff Tasseron is a retired Royal Canadian Air Force Colonel and the Director of Strategic Growth and Acquisitions for CAE Defence & Security Canada.

Hosts:

• Kathleen Monk is President of Monk + Associates, an independent public affairs agency and sit on the Canadian Global Affairs Institute's Advisory Council.
• Dr. David Perry is President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.