Sal Guatieri, Senior Economist and Director at BMO Capital Markets

Ana Santos Rutschman, professor of law, Villanova School of Law

Sean Strickland, executive director, Canadian Building Trades Union

Ross McKitrick, professor of economics, University of Guelph

Shaye Ganam, Mike Smyth, Kelly Cutrara and Lauren McNabb

David Soud, head of research for security consultancy I.R. Consilium

Kelly Cryderman, Alberta-based columnist for the Globe and Mail

Philip Loring is an anthropologist and ecologist whose research explores the linked social and ecological aspects of food systems and environmental conservation. He is the global director of human dimensions science at the Nature Conservancy and an adjunct professor at the University of Guelph

Peter Graefe, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University

Sarah Teich is an international human rights lawyer, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and an author of Combatting Transnational Repression and Foreign Interference in Canada

Jeff Davison, former City of Calgary councillor. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Prostate Cancer Centre. He is also currently on the University of Calgary Board of Governors and Senate and is a director on the boards of multiple private and public companies. Michael Walters was on Edmonton City Council from 2013-2021 and is currently partner, director of strategy, BERLIN COMMUNICATION, an Alberta based advocacy and advertising agency.

Aurel Braun, professor of international relations and political science, University of Toronto and Centre Associate for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

David Perry, President and CEO of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute

Connor MacRobbie, PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Waterloo

David Moscrop, writer for the Globe and Mail and the Washington Post and author, Too Dumb For Democracy?

Catherine Griwkowsky, legislature reporter, AB Today and Ian Skipworth, consultant, Summa Strategies

Dr. J. Edward Les is a pediatrician in Calgary who writes on politics, social issues, and other matters

Alicia Planincic, economist and manager of policy at the Business Council of Alberta

Edwin Nissen, a University of Victoria earth and ocean science researcher

Dr. Paul W. Bennett, is Director, Schoolhouse Institute, Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary’s University, and Chair of researchED Canada. His next education policy research report, The Smartphone Generation, will be published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in the very near future

Jars Balan, Coordinator, Ukrainian-Canadian, Faculty of Arts - Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies (CIUS)

David Coletto, CEO, Abacus Data

Samantha Cole, journalist and co-founder of technology news site 404Media

Rabia Khedr, director of Disability Without Poverty

Joe Varner is the author of Canada’s Asia-Pacific Security Dilemma, a former Director of Policy to the Ministers of National Defence and Justice, the Hon. Peter MacKay, and former Adjunct Scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute