Roundtable Luncheon with Jamie Golombek, John McKenzie and William B.P. Robson.
Canada’s competitiveness is increasingly defined by its ability to attract and retain capital – both from global investors and homegrown innovators. In an environment where jurisdictions are aggressively redesigning their tax systems to court investment, Canada’s capital gains regime plays a decisive role in shaping where entrepreneurs build, scale, and exit, and where international investors choose to allocate capital.
This Roundtable Luncheon will focus on how Canada can modernize its capital gains framework to drive domestic investment, attract foreign capital, and strengthen Canada’s position in the global competition for talent, growth, and innovation.
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Jamie Golombek, Managing Director, Tax & Estate Planning, CIBC
Jamie Golombek is Managing Director, Tax & Estate Planning with CIBC in Toronto. As a member of the CIBC Private Wealth team, Jamie works closely with advisors from across CIBC to support their clients and deliver integrated financial planning and strong advisory solutions. Jamie is quoted frequently in the national media as an expert on taxation, writes a weekly column called “Tax Expert” in the National Post, has appeared as a guest on BNN, CTV News, and The National. In 2023, Jamie was named a CPA Ontario Fellow. The FCPA is the highest distinction that can be bestowed upon a CPA who brings distinction to themselves and to their profession through leadership and achievement in their professional, community and/or personal lives.
John McKenzie, Chief Executive Officer, TMX Group
Mr. McKenzie is a member of the TMX Group Board of Directors and also a member of the Board of Directors of several TMX Group subsidiaries.
Mr. McKenzie has worked for TMX for over 25 years. Prior to his appointment as CEO on August 17, 2020, he served as Chief Financial Officer and was responsible for corporate strategy, corporate development, investor relations and the financial management of the company as well as for the administrative oversight of TMX Group’s Capital Formation business. He has led various TMX acquisitions, including the Maple transaction, and the acquisitions of Montréal Exchange and Trayport.
From July 2015 to August 2016, Mr. McKenzie served as President of CDS, Canada’s equity and fixed income clearing house and a wholly-owned subsidiary of TMX Group. Prior to that he was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and CFO of CDS.
Mr. McKenzie is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (FCPA, FCMA) and has an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University and an Honours BA from Wilfrid Laurier University. He has served on a number of boards, and is currently the Chair of the World Federation of Exchanges, and a Board Member and Treasurer for the Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation.
William B.P. Robson, President Emeritus, C.D. Howe Institute; Chair, Public Sector Governance and Accountability
Bill Robson is a Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, the Institute’s first President Emeritus, and holder of the William Robson Chair in Public Sector Governance and Accountability.
From July 2006 to February 2026, Mr. Robson served as President and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute. Prior to this, he held senior positions at the Institute, including as Senior Vice President, and Director of Research.
He has written more than 280 monographs, articles, chapters and books on such subjects as government budgets, pensions, healthcare financing, inflation and currency issues. His work has won awards from the Policy Research Secretariat, the Canadian Economics Association, and the Donner Canadian Foundation.
A Senior Fellow at Massey College, Mr. Robson holds an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He has served as an adviser to many federal and provincial agencies. He is a regular writer of newspaper columns and commentator in electronic media.
Mr. Robson taught undergraduate public finance and public policy at the University of Toronto from 2000 to 2003, and a Master’s level course in public finance at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy from 2014 to 2019.
His accomplishments as Director of Research and CEO of the C.D. Howe Institute include its array of authoritative policy councils, external audit of its research quality standards, a burgeoning events program, and solid financial performance, including its unprecedently successful Insight, Engagement, Impact campaign.
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