G-20 Summit
Toronto’s financial services sector welcomes the world to Canada
The Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA) is a public/private partnership whose mandate is to enhance and promote Toronto Region as a global financial services hub.
For your convenience, we have gathered here a variety of information and links to help you understand our sector better, and to provide perspective on some of the issues before world leaders at the G-20 Summit.
The TFSA and its members can provide a variety of experts for comment on financial services, financial services reform and global economic issues. For media enquiries, please contact any of our members directly, or contact Brian Smith at the TFSA, tel. +1.416.822.3130.
Members’ Websites
Links to our members’ websites are available here. In addition, some of our members have set up G-20 web sites with information that will be relevant to people covering the Summit or wanting to know more about Summit issues.
- Canadian Bankers Association – (en français)
- Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association – (en français)
- Insurance Bureau of Canada
Resources
Canada has weathered the financial crisis better than most. Find out why Toronto is the right place to be right now (TFSA contribution to Perspective Canada magazine – June, 2010).
For an overview of Toronto’s financial services centre, please download a presentation (PDF: 636 KB) prepared for international journalists.
TFSA President Janet Ecker discussed global financial reform during a recent conference in Dublin, Ireland. Full text of Ms. Ecker’s remarks (PDF: 220 KB).
The Economics department of TFSA member BMO Capital Markets Economics has developed a G-20 primer (PDF: 167 KB).
For more information about Toronto as a place to live, work and invest, please visit the Invest Toronto website.
Media
Canada’s remarkable resilience during the financial downturn has attracted attention from the global media. Here is a small selection of the coverage:
- Canada: Country Profile, Director Magazine (UK), June 2010
- What Toronto can teach New York and London, Financial Times (UK), January 29, 2010
- Good and Boring, New York Times (USA), January 31, 2010
- G8/G20 issue, Policy Options Magazine (Canada), June 2010
- Canadian bank chiefs call for return to reform basics, Financial Post (Canada), April 21, 2010
- Canada's economy is suddenly the envy of the world, Associated Press (USA), June 21, 2010
- Canadian Banks—Envy of the World, CNBC (USA), June 2, 2010
- Canada opposes punitive tax on banks, Xinhua (China), June 22, 2010

