This project was part of their coursework for Carleton’s Grad Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPE).

The students were reviewing the impact of a water system that had been installed in two of eight villages that were set up for repatriated Burundians refugees from Tanzania and the Congo.

“These students are part of a profession,” the Governor General said. “Professions are loosely defined but, in my view, professionals are on the leading edge of those fundamental values that are most important to a country. They have a specialized body of knowledge that can’t simply be picked up a how-to-book or by watching people operate for a day or two, it requires intensive study and careful consideration and teaching from the great mentors of the profession.”

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Laurel’s essay, entitled “Taking Stock: An Alternative Policy Approach to Canada’s Rental Market Crisis,” explores the preferential treatment that Canadian housing policies give to homeownership, while the rental market has been left to regulate itself. She argues that the rental housing market needs to be reframed as an integral part of Canada’s housing system in order to encourage alternative, pro-active policy responses to the current challenges of availability and affordability. She offers the United States Low Income Housing Tax Credit as a feasible policy alternative.

Congratulations Laurel!