On November 21, 2024, the Institut d'études internationales de Montréal (IEIM), in collaboration with the Economic Development and Inequality of Regions research team and UQAM's École des sciences de la gestion, organized the conference L'économie mondiale en temps de polycrise : quels impacts pour le Canada et le Québec?
François Audet, Director of IEIM, and Komlan Sedzro, Dean of ESG UQAM, gave opening addresses.
Mélanie Raymond, Chief Economist and Acting DG, International Economic Relations, Global Affairs Canada, Hubert Bolduc, President, Investissement Québec International, and Julien Martin, Professor, Department of Economics, ESG-UQAM, formed an exceptional panel, bringing varied and complementary perspectives. As a result, the current state of the global economy, weakened by a tense geopolitical context, was analyzed from the angle of its repercussions for Canada and Quebec.