November 3, 2016
Registration and breakfast
7:45am - 8:45am
McInnes Room, Dalhousie Student Union Building, 2nd Floor
Welcome
Camille Cameron
Dean, Schulich School of Law
8:45am - 9:00am
McInnes Room, Dalhousie Student Union Building, 2nd Floor
opening keynote:
Food Law In Canada — A retrospective
Ronald Doering
Counsel, Gowlings WLG
9:00am - 10:00am
McInnes Room, Dalhousie Student Union Building, 2nd Floor
Concurrent Panels 1
10:15am-11:45am
Dalhousie Student Union Building
McInnes Room
1.A The Law & Policy of
Sustainable Food Systems
Council Chambers
1.B Regulating New
Food Technologies
Room 303
1.C Food Labelling Regimes:
Criminalization, Enforcement & Risk Management
PLENARY LUNCH PANEL:
Is there a role for a national food policy in the 21st century?
12:00pm - 1:30pm
McInnes Room, Dalhousie Student Union Building, 2nd Floor
Concurrent Panels 2
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Dalhousie Student Union Building
McInnes ROOM
2.A Policy Perspectives on Food Security
council chambers
2.B Food & Human Rights
room 303
2.C Legal Issues in
Alcoholic & Non-Alcoholic Beverages
concurrent PANELs 3
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Dalhousie Student Union Building
mcinnes room
3.A Indigenous and Northern Food Systems
council chambers
3.B Land Regulation:
From Farmland Protection
to the Urban Frontier
room 303
3.C Profit and the Public Interest in Regulated Food Environments
open public talk
Bryant Terry
Award-Winning Author, Chef and Food Justice Advocate
7:30pm - 9:00pm
Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market
1209 Marginal Road
November 4, 2016
BREAKFAST
8:00am - 8:30am
McInnes Room, Dalhousie Student Union Building, 2nd Floor
PLENARY PANEL:
Trade, TRansparency & Economic Development
8:30am - 10:00am
McInnes Room, Dalhousie Student Union Building, 2nd Floor
concurrent PANELs 4
10:15am - 11:45am
Dalhousie Student Union Building
mcinnes room
4.A Defining the Field of
Food Law & Policy
in Canada
council chambers
4.B Food Safety: Between
Governance & Choice
room 303
4.C At the Intersection of
Food and Animal Law
Closing keynote:
Food Law and POlicy - Past, Present, And Future
Professor Michael Roberts
Resnick Center for Food Law & Policy
UCLA School of Law
12:00pm - 1:30pm
McInnes Room, Dalhousie Student Union Building, 2nd Floor
DEVOUR! Food Film Festival
The Chocolate Case (with Panel Discussion)
Oceanwise Chowder Smackdown
Industry Happy Hour: Meet the Chefs
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
2:00pm -8:00pm
Panel Details
concurrent panels 1
1.A Sustainable Food Systems
"Food Law & Climate Change in Canada", Heather McLeod-Kilmurray, Associate Professor and Nathalie Chalifour, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
"Choice Editing for Sustainability: A Viable Policy Solution for Canada’s Food Systems", Phoebe Stephens, PhD Candidate in Social and Ecological Sustainability, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo
"Healthy Diets and Environmental Impacts", Kathleen Kevany, Associate Professor, Department of Business & Social Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Dalhousie University & John Grant, Physician, Dalhousie University
"Time is a Flat Circle: Moving towards a Waste Free, Circular Economy in Ontario", Amy DeLorenzo, MA Candidate, Department of Geography, University of Guelph
1.B REGULATING NEW FOOD TECHNOLOGIES
"Satisfying Public Interest in the Design of Policy Related to Technology in Agriculture and Food", Violet Muringai, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Ellen Goddard, Professor, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of Alberta
"Regulatory Challenges and Economics of Gene Editing Technologies", Henry An, Associate Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta
"Regulating Frankenfoods: Sustainability, Technology and Feeding the Future", Angela Lee, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
1.C Food Labelling Regimes: Criminalization, Enforcement & Risk Management
"The Criminalization of Breaches of Food Legislation: Policy Lessons from Workplace Health and Safety", Frank Portman and Jeremy Schwartz, Stringer LLP
"False and Misleading Representations in the Food Industry: Risk Management and Product Liability", Amélie Gouin, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
"CFIA Enforcement through Investigations and Prosecutions", Gerald Chan, Stockwoods LLP
plenary lunch panel
Is there a role for a national food policy in the 21st century?
Peter Andree, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Robert Strang, Chief Medical Officer of Health, Nova Scotia
Peter Tyedmers, Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
Patricia Williams, Professor and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Food Security and Policy Change, Department of Applied Human Nutrition, Mount St. Vincent University
Elaine Gibson (Moderator), Associate Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
concurrent panels 2
2.A Policy PERSPECTIVES on FOOD SECURITY
"Analyzing the Regulatory Regime for Controlling Risks to the Canadian Food Supply Chain", Benjamin Bisset, Policy Analyst, Tsawwassen First Nation
"Food Security: Newfoundland and Labrador", Kristie Jameson, Executive Director, Food First NL
"Tiresias in a Crisis: Media Coverage of Disasters", Kevin Quigley, Professor, School of Public Administration, Dalhousie University & Director, MacEachen Institute for Public Policy & Governance
2.B Food & Human Rights
"Working in Food: Farm to Table", Carly Dunster, Turnpenney Milne LLP
"Breastmilk: Why Nature’s Superfood is an Underdog and How We Can Change That", Dianna Rievaj, Highlander Law Group
"Feast & Famine: Legitimizing the Right to Food as a Tool for Addressing Both Overnutrition and Undernutrition", Adam Houston, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
2.C LEGAL ISSUES IN ALCOHOLIC and Non-Alcoholic Beverages
"The Intersection of Food and Wine Law", Al Hudec, Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP
"Commission or Decision: The Path of Liquor Law Reform", Daniel Coles, Owen Bird LLP
"Regulation by Inaction", Nick Kadysh, Chair, Energy Drink Working Group, Canadian Beverage Association.
concurrent panels 3
3.A Indigenous and Northern Food Systems
"Law, Governance and Indigenous Food Security", Constance MacIntosh, Professor, Director of the Dalhousie Health Law Institute and Associate Professor of Law, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
"Northern Food Security", Malcolm Kempt, Board Member, Legal Services Board of Nunavut
"Land-Based Food Resurgence: Against Neoliberal Law?" Sherry Pictou, Bear River First Nation
3.B Land Regulation: From Farmland Protection to the Urban Frontier
"Protecting Canada’s Farmland: A Prerequisite for Agri-Food Policy", Greg Cameron, Associate Professor, Department of Business & Social Studies, Dalhousie University
“Farming of the Future: Regulating Urban Food Production”, Carole Chan, Associate, McInnes Cooper
“Governing Farmland Commons”, Jamie Baxter, Assistant Professor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
3.C Profit and the Public Interest in Regulated Food Environments
"Medicine, Body Fluid, and Food: The Ethics and the Law on Human Donor Milk", Martha Paynter, Research Coordinator, Dalhousie School of Nursing
"Food Law: The Other Side of The Mirror", Benoît Hudon, Hudon Avocats
plenary panel:
Trade, Transparency & Economic Development
"Achieving What’s Possible for the Agri-Food Sector: Through the Lens of Strategically Managing 'Natural Capital'", David McInnes, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute
"Food Labelling Under the TBT Agreement", Mante Molepo, Senior Trade Policy Officer, Global Affairs Canada
"Selling Our Soul With Our Seafood? Balancing Trade, Food Sovereignty and Sustainability", Megan Bailey, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Integrated Ocean and Coastal Governance (Tier II), Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University
concurrent panels 4
4.A DEFINING THE FIELD OF FOOD LAW & POLICY IN CANADA
"Five Clouds on the Agri-Food Law & Policy Horizon: Heavy Weather or Sunny Ways?", Donald Buckingham, Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Agricultural Review Tribunal
"Food Law & Policy in Canada: A Fisheries Perspective", Patricia Fricker-Bates, Louisbourg Seafood Ltd.
"Food Law and Policy: Transitioning to a More Equitable, Just and Sustainable Food System in
Canada", Nadia Lambek, JSD Student, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
4.B FOOD SAFETY: BETWEEN GOVERNANCE & CHOICE
"Is Safe Food Good Food? Reconciling Science and Ethics With a Virtuous Conception of Food Law and Policy", Sarah Berger Richardson, PhD Candidate, McGill Law School
"When My Law and Your Policy Clash: Exploring Formal Food Safety Activities as Both a Barrier and Leverage Point in Shaping the Canadian Food System", Shannon Majowicz, Assistant Professor, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo
"The Autonomous Consumer and the Dutiful State: A Real Problem or Simply Food for Thought?", David Travers, QC, Six Pump Court and Visiting Professor, Business Accountability and Responsibility Centre, University of South Wales
4.C AT THE INTERSECTION OF FOOD AND ANIMAL LAW
"Food Law and Animal Law - Bridging the Gap", Jessica Eisen, SJD Candidate, Harvard Law School
"Consumers' Rights to Information on Animal Welfare", Marie-Claude Desjardins, Professor and Principal Researcher at the Legal Research Chair in Food Diversity and Security, University of Sherbrooke and Sabrina Tremblay-Huet, SJD Candidate and Research Assistant at the Legal Research Chair in Food Diversity and Security, University of Sherbrooke
"Regulating Meat Systems", Abra Brynne, British Columbia Food Systems Network
"From Barn to Belly: Cutting-Edge Consumer Cases in the U.S." Michael Tenenbaum, Principal Lawyer, The Office of Michael Tenenbaum, Esq.