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EthicsCentre CA invites distinguished business and community leaders to address luncheon guests in our widely acclaimed Luncheon Speaker Series. Topics include critical reflections on ethics, governance and corporate responsibility of particular interest to business executives, academics, public officials and ethics practitioners.

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Implications of ISO 26000: What Canadian Organizations Should Know About the Coming International Guidance Standard on Social Responsibility

David Simpson, Director, Interpraxis Consulting, Member of International Working Group developing the ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Standard and Dr. Kernaghan Webb, Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact on ISO 26000, Member of ISO 26000 Working Group

  • Breakfast Event
  • Tuesday, March 9, 2010
  • 7:45 am until 9:15 am
  • Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, 199 Bay Street, Commerce Court West - 23rd Floor Reception

Light breakfast at 7:45 am

Members: Complimentary (includes unlimited employees of corporate members)

Non-Members $15

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Ethics and Values in Business

Robert Dutton, President and CEO, RONA

  • Luncheon
  • Tuesday, April 13, 2010
  • 12 noon until 2 pm
  • The Albany Club, 91 King Street East, Toronto

Are ethics good for the bottom line? The answer to that question is a resounding "yes", says RONA CEO Robert Dutton - particularly in the wake of the recent financial crisis, which shattered confidence in global financial markets and spawned widespread scepticism about what many viewed as questionable business practices and ethics.

When you get right down to it, Mr. Dutton says, the success and sustainability of not just individual companies but our entire economic system - and, by extension, society - relies on little more than confidence: confidence that we will conduct our affairs in an ethical manner that takes into account not only our fiduciary duty to shareholders and the corporation but also our obligations to other stakeholders - customers, suppliers, employees and communities. In that regard, a company's reputation and values - in other words, its "ethics capital" - is arguably as important to its long-term success as financial capital and human capital.

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Ethics Hotlines: Reinforcing Tone-at-the-Top and Strengthening Internal Controls

Phil Enright, Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing, ClearView Strategic Partners Inc.

  • Breakfast Event
  • Thursday, April 29, 2010
  • 7:45 am to 9:15 am
  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin, 66 Wellington Street West, TD Bank Tower

Light breakfast at 7:45 am

Members: Complimentary (includes unlimited employees of corporate members)

Non-Members $15

In difficult and uncertain economic times, Tone-at-the-Top takes on a whole new level of importance within organizations. Establishing cultures that are ethical and transparent are the responsibility of the senior leaders in organizations. The commitment to the Code of Conduct and having it adopted as the accepted level of behaviour is achieved through consistent messaging (words and actions) from senior leaders, and made 'real' by having an effective ethics reporting system in place.

A short ethics reporting system demonstration will be provided as part of the session.

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Dr. William (Bill) Dimma, Past President of Toronto Star Newspapers, Past CEO of Royal LePage

  • Luncheon
  • Thursday, May 27, 2010
  • 12 noon until 2pm
  • The Albany Club - 91 King Street East, Toronto

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Ethics in the Financial Sector: At Home and Abroad

Jim McArdle, Senior Vice-President, Corporate Secretariat and Legal Services, Export Development Canada

  • Luncheon
  • Tuesday, September 28, 2010
  • 12 noon until 2pm
  • The Albany Club, 91 King Street East, Toronto

With the recent economic crisis, the ethics of the financial sector have been called into question. In Canada, this has an additional layer of complexity when we examine how the financial sector supports Canadian companies operating abroad and how those companies conduct themselves. At present, there is a generalized call for a higher ethical standard of conduct in business. But what does that look like at home, abroad and for the financial sector?

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