The project is a collaboration between the CCPA-BC and the University of British Columbia, led by co-directors Marc Lee, Senior Economist with the CCPA, and Michael Byers, Canadian Research Chair in International Law and Politics in the Political Science Department at UBC.
Research partners in this project include a multi-disciplinary team of academics from three BC universities, along with researchers and advisors from BC trade unions, environmental non-government organizations, First Nations and social justice groups, and other research institutes.
Community Partners
- BC Federation of Labour
- BC Government and Service Employees’ Union
- BC Healthy Communities
- BC Non-Profit Housing Association
- BC Sustainable Energy Association
- Better Environmentally Sound Transportation
- Canadian Auto Workers
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Canadian Union of Public Employees
- Carnegie Community Action Project & Raise the Rates Coalition
- Centre for Native Policy and Research
- Check Your Head, Youth Global Education Network
- City Program, Simon Fraser University
- Columbia Institute
- Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
- David Suzuki Foundation
- EcoTrust Canada
- Fraser Basin Council
- Heiltsuk First Nation
- Irving K Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia
- Laxgalts’ap Village Government
- Namgis First Nation
- Pembina Institute
- Pivot Legal Society
- PHS Community Services Society
- Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers Union
- Sierra Club of BC
- Sightline Institute
- Social Planning and Research Council of BC
- Society Promoting Environmental Conservation
- The Tyee
- United Steelworkers - Canada
- Vancity Savings Credit Union
- Vancouver Foundation
- Victoria Transport Policy Institute
- Wilderness Committee
Academic Collaborators
- Leonora Angeles, University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning
- Jeanette Armstrong, University of British Columbia – Okanagan, Indigenous Studies
- Paul Bowles, University of Northern British Columbia, Economics
- Michael Byers, University of British Columbia, Liu Institute for Global Issues & Dept. of Political Science
- John Calvert, Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Sciences
- Kenneth Carlaw, University of British Columbia – Okanagan
- Stephanie Chang, University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning
- Patrick Condon, University of British Columbia, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
- Kathy Cross, Simon Fraser University, School of Communications
- Lawrence Frank, University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning and Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability
- David Green, University of British Columbia, Economics
- Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Simon Fraser University, Political Science & Women's Studies
- Shane Gunster, Simon Fraser University, Communications
- Penny Gurstein, University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning, Centre for Human Settlements
- Robert Hackett, Simon Fraser University, School of Communications
- Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia, Political Science
- John Janmaat, University of British Columbia – Okanagan, School of Arts & Science
- Fiona MacPhail, University of Northern British Columbia, Economics
- Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University, Geography
- Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University, Economics
- William Rees, University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning
- Terre Satterfield, University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources and Environmental Sustainability
- Maged Senbel, University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning
- Mark Stevens, University of British Columbia, School of Community and Regional Planning
- Tim Takaro, Simon Fraser University, Faculty of Health Sciences and Environmental Change Research Group
- David Tindall, University of British Columbia, Sociology & Forestry
- Rob van Wynsberghe, University of British Columbia, Institute for Health Promotion
