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Welcome to our Employment Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Anti-Racism Series!

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Equity, Anti-Racism and Mental Health in the Federal Public Service - October 6, 2022 at 13:30 - 15:00 EST - REGISTER

Dr. Martin Nicholas and Elizabeth Martin are two of the most informative and engaging speakers on equity, diversity, inclusion and Anti-Racism within the GoC. Join them on October 6th for a one of a kind presentation that you don’t want to miss. They will discuss:

1. Equity in the Federal Public Service is Substantive Equality as protected by the Charter
2. Research and Analysis of Representation Data of Black Employees and the Employment Equity Designated Groups in the Public Service
3. Cost of Racism on the Mental Health of Canadians

This will be followed by a Q and A from the audience. We hope to see you all there.

Date:

Oct 6, 2022 1:30-3:00pm EST Bilingual

Speaker	Bio	Socials/Contact
Dr. Martin Nicholas	Dr. Nicholas returned after one month of retirement in October 2020 to work on Anti-Racism, Anti-Discrimination, Equity and Inclusion at Health Canada and Justice Canada. He retired in Sep. 2020 after 30 years service at Health Canada, where he was actively involved in Employment Equity work for 25 years. He served as a Chair or in the executive of EE and other related departmental national and regional committees and was active in interdepartmental activities and interacting with central agencies to advocate for advancing Anti-Racism, Equity and Inclusion in the federal public service.  He served on the Steering Committee (1997-2003) for the Implementation of Landmark Canadian Human Rights Tribunal Order on racial discrimination against Health Canada, which includes Seven Permanent Corrective Measures (PCMs) that are still in force in 2022. These PCMs provide insight into what duty of care and due diligence is required for complying with the EE Act and EE Regulations in their current form.
Elizabeth Martin

Deconstructing Colonial Practices in the Public Service - October 11, 2022 at 13:30 to 15:00 ET - REGISTER

Join Jolene Head, one of the GoC’s most preeminent thought leaders, for an important and insightful conversation on Deconstructing Colonial Practices in the Public Service.Jolene will discuss Reconciliation and decolonization in the public service. She will also speak about the many ways that Indigenous knowledge can be used within the public service to create more safe and inclusive work environments. Lastly, Jolene will discuss how the public service system and its culture can be used to effectively promote authentic Reconciliation efforts that effectively center Indigenous people.Please note, this presentation will be based on Jolene’s master thesis which features insights from many public sector leaders and Indigenous Elders as well. Feel free to access it here before the event: Deconstructing Colonial Practices in The Public Service.This is a thought provoking conversation that you don't want to miss. Register today!!

Date:

Oct 11, 2022 1:30-3:00pm EST Bilingual

Speaker	Bio	Social/Contact
Jolene Head	Jolene is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in norther Manitoba. She spent the bulk of her public service career in various positions within ISC/CIRNAC mainly in the areas of land, resources and environment.  Most notably, she was the lead Director on the pre-inquiry engagement for the creation of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry. Currently she is the Special Analyst on Reconciliation and Indigenous Engagement at Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC). She has recently completed her Masters of Arts in Leadership with Royal Roads University with her thesis entitled, Deconstructing Colonial Practices in the Public Service. Her research was conducted through the methodology of wâkôtowin, utilizing Indigenous methods to gather data. The research allowed all niwâkomâkanak (my relatives) to share their truths about working in and against a colonial system while also offering recommendations on addressing the systemic barriers in the Public Service system. She successfully defended her thesis on May 26, 2022 and we have invited her to present and discuss some of her findings. This dialogue will help us set the stage for a wider discussion on innovation leadership as part of our efforts to build an innovation culture at ISC.

Evidence Based ways to impact Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism - October 25, 2022 at 13:30 to 15:00 ET - REGISTER

Join GoC HR extraordinaire Etienne Laliberté as he shares his thoughts on evidence based ways to impact diversity, equity, inclusion and Anti-Racism in the Federal Public Service. Etienne has been doing tremendous work in HR and has excellent ideas on Human Resources Innovation, staffing, hiring and promotion. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss.

Date:

Oct 25th 1:30-3:00 Bilingual

Speaker	Bio	Socials/Contact
Etienne Laliberté	Étienne Laliberté, Human Resources Innovation Formerly a business consultant and web development project manager in the private and para-public sectors, Étienne joined the federal public service in 2003. He has since worked in eleven federal organizations, with most of his experience revolving around people management and human resources (HR). After working on the implementation of the new Public Service Employment Act, Étienne joined the law enforcement branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada in the Pacific region and hacked bureaucracy by systematically conducting staffing processes in three weeks. Perhaps more significantly, he helped turn the worst organization in the federal public service into the second best for its employee engagement. Since 2018, Étienne has been firmly anchored in the HR innovation sphere. He has interviewed over 100 organizations about their HR innovations, especially in the areas of staffing and recruitment. He researched “predictive hiring”, an approach based on data and advanced statistics. Shortly after the pandemic started, he interviewed over 200 HR leaders across the federal public service about their views on the future of HR. He has explored how we could use data to make staffing and recruitment more efficient and initiated a project examining employment equity in annual performance reviews. Fun fact: Étienne was the first non-official blogger in the public service of Canada, and perhaps its first videoblogger too! You may follow him on his GCcollab group (3rd most popular group on GCcollab, with 5,400+ members) or YouTube channel or connect with him on Twitter.	https://twitter.com/EtiennLaliberte