MP Breakfast with guest speaker Anne Giardini – What will it take to get more women on boards?

Date: October 31, 2014 to October 31, 2014

Time: 07:30 to 09:00
Location: 4397 W. 10th Ave. (Off Trimble)
Ticket Cost: $20 cash a the door ($10 for students)
To Register: Click here

Organizing Group

Group Name: Joyce Murray, Member of Parliament for Vancovuer Quadra
Twitter Account Name: @joycemurray
Twitter Topic Hashtag: #cdnpoli

Event Information

Please join MP Joyce Murray on Friday, October 31 for a Halloween MP Breakfast with special guest Anne Giardini, Chancellor of Simon Fraser University. “What will it take to get more women on boards?”

Increasing the number of women on boards was a central pillar of Joyce’s 2013 Liberal Leadership Campaign. In Canada, women occupy just 15.9 percent of corporate board seats, and 40 percent of publicly traded companies have no women on their boards, according to Canada’s FP 500 list of public and private companies. Studies consistently reveal that businesses with more women on their boards and in senior management outperform those with fewer women.

Anne Giardini was installed as Chancellor of Simon Fraser University in June 2014. She was President of Weyerhaeuser Company Limited for many years, and serves on several corporate and other boards. She is a business leader, lawyer, community volunteer and author. She received her BA from SFU, LLB from UBC, and LLM from Cambridge University. In 2013-14, she served on the Government of Canada’s Advisory Council for Promoting Women on Boards.
This Halloween, let’s hear from Anne why we shouldn’t be afraid of what it takes to get more women on boards!

Please RSVP to joyce.murray.c1b@parl.gc.ca or by calling 604-664-9220.

Registration Information

please email us at joyce.murray.c1b@parl.gc.ca or call us at 604-664-9220