Donald Drummond, Co-Chair, Fiscal Tax Competitiveness Council, C.D. Howe Institute
Friday May 18, 2012 Toronto Roundtable Event - The Drummond Commission on Ontario’s Public Services: Going Beyond the Numbers
Much of the focus in media coverage and then subsequently in the Ontario Budget was on specific actions to produce certain fiscal savings. Less attention has been paid to the call for dramatically reforming how public services are designed and delivered. There is still much to be done at the federal, provincial and local government levels on the efficiency agenda.
Don Drummond is Co-Chair of the C.D. Howe Institute’s Fiscal and Tax Competitiveness Council, Senior Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute, and Matthew Fellow on Global Public Policy, Queen’s University. He was until recently Chair, Ontario Commission on the Reform of Public Services.
He was previously Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the TD Bank, where he played a key role in building TD’s reputation as “a think tank in a bank,” leading TD Economics’ work in analyzing and forecasting economic performance in Canada and abroad.
Mr. Drummond was educated at the University of Victoria and Queen’s University, where he completed his M.A. in Economics. During almost 23 years at the federal Department of Finance, he held a series of progressively more senior positions in economic analysis and forecasting, fiscal policy and tax policy. His last three positions at the Department of Finance were respectively, Assistant Deputy Minister of Fiscal Policy & Economic Analysis, Assistant Deputy Minister of Tax Policy & Legislation and Associate Deputy Minister. In this last position he was responsible for economic analysis, fiscal policy, tax policy, social policy and federal-provincial relations. Mr. Drummond coordinated the planning of annual federal budgets. He joined the TD Bank in June 2000.
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