74th Annual Tax Conference 2022 | Canadian Tax Foundation
 | 27 November 2022 | Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2W6, Canada

Agenda Topics:
• Housing and Taxation & Income Inequality and Generational Wealth Differences
• Substantive CCPCs and Changes to the Integration Regime
• Canadian and US Public Company Spinoffs
• The ESG Agenda: Driving Tax Accounting and Digitization Changes of the Tax Function
• Recent Transactions of Interest
• The Digital Economy | Pillar 1 and Canada's Proposed Digital Services Tax
• Reportable and Notifiable Transactions
• The Digital Economy | Understanding Blockchain Technology, Distributed Ledger Technology & Digital Assets
• Documentary Disclosure in GAAR Appeals: What's the Fuss All About?
• Transactional Liability Insurance: It's About A lot More than the Money
• Intergenerational Transfers - Current Best Practices
• The Use of Tax Incentives to “Green” the Economy
• Subsection 55(2): The Safe Income Exception and other interpretive issues
• Intellectual Property in a BEPS and P1/P2 World
• Audits, Appeals and Requests for Information: Views from Both Sides
• The Meaning of Cost and Adjusted Cost Base (“ACB”)
• Investing by and with Tax Exempt Entities
• New Rules for Charities: Qualifying Disbursement Rules and Changes to the Disbursement Quota
• Indirect Tax Update for Non-Indirect Tax Practitioners
• Indigenous Investment, Taxation & Economic Prosperity

2022 Speakers

Heather L. Evans
Executive Director and CEO,Canadian Tax Foundation

Marlene R. Cepparo
KPMG Canada, Toronto, Chair, Canadian Tax Foundation

Peter Fragiskatos
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National of Revenue, London, ON

Enid Slack
Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, School of Cities, University of Toronto (Active Moderator)

Ben Dachis
CD Howe Institute, Toronto

Mike Moffatt
Smart Prosperity Institute, Ottawa

Simon Petit
Department of Justice, Montreal

John J. Tobin
Torys LLP, Toronto

Adrienne Woodyard
DLA Piper, Toronto

Kenneth Keung
CPA, CA, TEP, Moodys Tax, Calgary

Sanjaya Ranasinghe
EY Law LLP, Edmonton

Devon Bodoh
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington, DC

Jeff Oldewening
McCarthy Tetrault LLP, Toronto

Doug Powrie
Canadian Tax Foundation, Vancouver (Active Moderator)

Thomas Brook
EY Law LLP, Calgary

Jennifer Palmer
CPA, CA, EY LLP, Calgary

Alan Bowman
Goodmans LLP, Toronto

Julie D'Avignon
Stikeman Elliott LLP, Calgary

Brian Ernewein
KPMG LLP, Toronto

Martin Sorensen
Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto

Chief Justice Marc Noël
Federal Court of Appeal

Justice Randall Bocock
Tax Court of Canada

Justice Bruce Russell
Tax Court of Canada

Sharon Lee
Department of Justice, Toronto

Florence Sauve
Thorsteinssons LLP, Vancouver

Torran Jolly
CPA, CA, KPMG LLP, Calgary

Dion J. Legge
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Calgary

Shereen Cook
Dentons Canada LLP, Montreal

Emmanuel Sala, CPA
Dentons Canada LLP, Montreal

Perry Derksen
Department of Justice, Vancouver

Marie-France Dompierre
Davies Ward Phillips & Vinberg LLP, Montreal

Noreen Marchand
Grant Thornton LLP, Toronto

Natasha Miklaucic
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Toronto

H. Michael Dolson
Felesky Flynn LLP, Toronto

Siobhan A.M. Goguen
QC, Felesky Flynn LLP, Calgary

Andrew Leach
University of Alberta, Edmonton

Jeffrey Shafer
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto

Chris Sheridan
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto | New York

Jeffrey Lash
Euclid Transactional, New York

Sara Josselyn
Miller Thomson LLP, Toronto

Michael MacRory
Euclid Transactional, Toronto

Estelle Duez
LaBarge Weinstein, Ottawa

Brandon Hodge
MNP LLP, Toronto

Nicole K. D'Aoust
Miller Thomson LLP, Toronto

Robert B. Hayhoe
Miller Thomson LLP, Toronto

McShane D. Jones
Barsalou Lawson Rheault LLP, Montreal

Mark Brender
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Montreal

Daniel Lacelle
Gowling WLG (Canada), Montreal

Bill Namagoose
Executive Director, the Cree Nation Government Nation / Grand Council of the Crees (Eeyou Itschee)

Mindy Wight
Chief Executive Officer, Nch’ḵaỷ Development Corporation, the economic development group of the Squamish Nation (BC), Vancouver

Carla Hannemann-Stirrat
KPMG Law LLP, Toronto

Wesley Novotny
Bennett Jones LLP, Calgary

Erica M. Hennessey
McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Calgary

Matthew Kraemer
McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Calgary

Edward (Ted) C. Bell, P. Eng
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP, Vancouver

Lorraine Redekop
Canada Revenue Agency, Ottawa

Matias Milet
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto

Philippe-Antoine Morin
EY Law LLP, Montreal

Neil Bass
Aird & Berlis LLP, Toronto

Angelo Gentile
Aird & Berlis LLP, Toronto

Brian Nichols
Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLP, Toronto

Keith Trussler
McKenzie Lake, London

John Wonfor
FCPA, FCA, TEP, BDO Canada LLP, Toronto

Patrick Marley
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto

Angelo Nikolakakis
EY Law LLP, Montreal

Sue Wooles
BMO Financial Group, Toronto

Saira Bhojani
Torys LLP, Toronto

Eivan Sulaiman, CPA
EY LLP, Vancouver

Claude E. Jodoin
Fasken, Montreal

Caroline Morin
PwC Law LLP, Vancouver

Olivier Fournier
Deloitte Legal Canada LLP, Montreal

Justin Kutyan
KPMG Law LLP, Toronto

Deen Olsen
Department of Justice, Ottawa

The Honourable Eugene P. Rossiter
Chief Justice, Tax Court of Canada, Ottawa

Shawn Porter
Department of Finance, Ottawa

Bob Hamilton
Commissioner of the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Ottawa

Yves Moreno
Acting Director, Income Tax Rulings Directorate, Canada Revenue Agency, Ottawa

Stéphane Prud’Homme
Director, Income Tax Rulings Directorate, Canada Revenue Agency, Ottawa

Dean C. Landry
CA, PwC Canada, Toronto

Marie-Emmanuelle Vaillancourt
Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Montreal

MODERATORS:

Carl Deslongchamps
Canadian Tax Foundation, Montreal

Joan Jung
Minden Gross LLP, Toronto

Mark H. Woltersdorf
Dentons Canada LLP, Edmonton

Cathie Brayley
Miller Thomson LLP, Vancouver

Doug Wright
Cox & Palmer, St. John’s

Anu Nijhawan
Bennett Jones LLP, Calgary

Nancy Diep
Lawson Lundell LLP, Calgary

Paul Stepak
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto

Cheryl Gibson
Dentons Canada LLP, Edmonton

Marlene Cepparo
KPMG LLP, Toronto

Stefanie Morand
McCarthy Tetrault LLP, Toronto

Paul K. Grower
Fillmore Riley LLP, Winnipeg

Stefanie Morand
McCarthy Tetrault LLP, Toronto

Barbara Worndl
Aird & Berlis LLP, Toronto

John A. Sorensen
Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP, Toronto

2022 Sponsors

PREMIER SPONSORS:
• Bennett Jones
• Cadesky Tax
• Osler

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• BLG
• Dentons
• McCarthy Tetrault
• Thorsteinssons

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Blakes
• Felesky Flynn
• Miller Thomson
• Torys

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Fasken
• Field Law
• Gowling WLG
• MNP
• Moodys
• NRF
• Stikeman Elliott