Public Policy at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy | University of Toronto

Since June 24’s historic vote, SPPG Professors Mel Cappe and Peter Loewen have been featured in Canadian media providing comment and analysis on the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union.

Mel Cappe is Professor in the School of Public Policy and Governance. He teaches in the Masters Program and is Coordinator of the Undergraduate Program in Public Policy. From 2006-2011 he was President of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Prior to that for four years he was High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom. Before that he served as Clerk of the Privy Council, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of the Public Service in Ottawa. Earlier in his career he held senior economic and policy positions in the Departments of Finance and Industry. He was Deputy Secretary to the Treasury Board, Deputy Minister of the Environment, Deputy Minister of Human Resources Development, Deputy Minister of Labour and Chairman of the Employment Insurance Commission. He did graduate studies in Economics at the Universities of Western Ontario and Toronto and has honourary doctorates from both. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Mel Cappe’s Brexit Coverage: 

Government by Referendums is not Democracy (The Globe and Mail)
SPPG Professor Mel Cappe highlights the undemocratic nature of referendums with respect to Brexit and the Canadian context.

Global News Morning (CTV Kenora (CJBN-TV))
Circulation: 24428, Date: Jun 24, 2016, Airtime: 08:16
Mel Cappe, a professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto, gives his two cents with Britain votes to leave the EU.

The impact of Britain’s vote to leave the EU (Global News (Online))
Mel Cappe from U of T’s School of Public Policy and Governance discusses what “Brexit” means for Britain.

CTV News Channel (CTV News (CTV-NC))
Mel Cappe, professor at the University of Toronto, talks about the feel-better effect and a long-term destabilizing impact of the Brexit vote.

Morning News (Global Saskatoon (CFSK-TV))
Mel Cappe, professor at the University of Toronto, talks about how it pays for Canada to cut a deal with the EU.

CBC The National – Turning Point (CBC-TV))
Mel Cappe, is featured on CBC The National’s Turning Point panel discussing what comes next for the United Kingdom after the Brexit vote. 

Peter Loewen is associate professor of political science at the University of Toronto, Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and the incoming Director (as of July 1) of the School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto. His current academic interests include political psychology and behaviour, especially in Anglo-American democracies, behavioural economics, public opinion, genopolitics, and experimentation. He has taught in several fields, including Canadian politics, American politics, political behaviour, comparative politics, and experimentation.

Peter Loewen Brexit Coverage:

“The Crumbling of the United Kingdom, a long-time democracy,” The Ottawa Citizen.