Register now to attend this important conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon and Ted Jackson at noon on June 26, 2025.
How serious is Donald Trump about annexing Canada? Many scholars say he’s very serious. He wants our land with its minerals, energy and water to assert complete hemispheric control through an enlarged America. In their view, the trade war is the beginning, not the end, of the US administration’s aggression against us. What should Canada do? Royal Roads University professor and Cascade Institute executive director Thomas Homer-Dixon has written that there is no appeasing Trump. Instead, he argues, “we need to move to a wartime footing in all respects – economically, socially, politically and (perhaps hardest for us to accept) militarily.” Join us for a stimulating conversation with one of Canada’s finest thinkers on why he believes this strategy is urgent and essential and what, specifically, we should do.
Our speaker, Thomas Homer Dixon is a Canadian political scientist, author, and founder and Executive Director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia. Dr. Homer-Dixon’s research focuses on threats to global security in the 21st century, including economic instability, climate change, and energy scarcity. He also studies how people, organizations, and societies can better resolve their conflicts and innovate in response to complex problems. Dr. Homer-Dixon’s books include Environment, Scarcity and Violence, The Ingenuity Gap, The Upside of Down, Carbon Shift, and, most recently, Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Rewew a World in Peril. A former Full Professor and Research Chair at Toronto and Waterloo universities, he holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in international relations, defense and arms control policy, and conflict theory.
The incoming Chair of the Group of 78, Edward (Ted) Jackson is a professor, consultant, and editor with current research interests in sustainable finance, gender lens investing, jobs in the transition economy, and community-university partnerships. He is a retired tenured public-policy professor, former associate dean (research) and co-founder of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, at Carleton University, where he continues to serve as a senior research fellow. He is also an honorary associate at the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University. As president of the consultancy E. T. Jackson and Associates, he has advised bilateral and multilateral development agencies and banks, investment funds, foundations, non-profits, and universities in 60 countries, including Bangladesh, Belize, Ghana, Kenya, Singapore, South Africa, and Vietnam. An active volunteer, he co-founded the McLeod Group and has advised the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, an American farmworkers’ rights non-profit, and the Singapore-based Sweef Capital impact fund.