2019 National Conference Delegate Handbook

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THANK YOU To the campaigners. The activists. The volunteers.

To the visionaries who believe a brighter future is possible.

To those who fight for the rights of others. And those who won’t rest, can’t rest till we see trade justice for all. We thank you.

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FAIR TRADE TOWNS

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LIVING WAGE/LIVING INCOME

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COCOA: FROM BEAN TO BAR

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2019

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2019

8:00–9:00•LIGHT BREAKFAST•ROOM 214

8:00–9:00•LIGHT BREAKFAST•ROOM 214

9:00–9:45•WELCOME•ROOM 214

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9:45–10:45•KEYNOTE•ROOM 214

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• Brad Hill (Fair Trade Consultant, Former Co-operative Group UK)

• Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians)

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11:15–12:30•BREAKOUT SESSIONS

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» » CRASH COURSE ON FAIR TRADE•ROOM 209•SEE PAGE 8 FOR OVERVIEW » » MINDFULNESS IN AN AGE OF BURNOUT•ROOM 210•PAGE 8 » » RETAILING FAIR TRADE: FROM NICHE TO MAINSTREAM •ROOM 211•PAGE 8 » » TRADE 101: BEYOND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE•ROOM 212•PAGE 8

» » FAIR TRADE TOWNS•ROOM 209•PAGE 11 » » LIVING WAGE / LIVING INCOME•ROOM 210•PAGE 11 » » FAIRTRADE APPAREL: CLOSER THAN WE MIGHT THINK? •ROOM 211•PAGE 11 » » TRADE POLICY: EMBEDDING SUSTAINABILITY & FAIRNESS •ROOM 212•PAGE 11

12:30–1:45•LUNCH 1:45–3:00•BREAKOUT SESSIONS

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» » GLOBAL UPDATE: WHAT’S WORKING & WHAT CAN WE LEARN •ROOM 209•PAGE 8 » » THE ANATOMY OF A CAMPAIGN•ROOM 210•PAGE 9 » » TAKING YOUR BUSINESS DEEPER, EMBEDDING ETHICS INTO EVERYTHING YOU DO•ROOM 211•PAGE 9 » » BANANAS, BANANAS, BANANAS!•ROOM 212•PAGE 9

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» » FRANCHISE ENGAGMENT WORKSHOP•ROOM 209•PAGE 12 » » COCOA: FROM BAR TO BEAN •ROOM 210•PAGE 12 » » MODERN SLAVERY–HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE LEGISLATION • ROOM 211•PAGE 12 » » FAIR TRADE AND E-COMMERCE•ROOM 212•PAGE 13

FAIR TRADE SCHOOLS•ROOM 209•PAGE 9 HANDMADE, FAIR TRADE IN CANADA•ROOM 210•PAGE 9 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT•ROOM 211•PAGE 10 CLIMATE CHANGE IS EVERYONE’S BUSINESS: WORKING TOWARD POSITIVE IMPACT ON A DAILY BASIS•ROOM 212•PAGE 10

5:00–8:00•TRADESHOW & NETWORKING EVENING • RIDEAU CANAL ATRIUM, SHAW CENTRE

» » FAIR TRADE CAMPUSES•ROOM 209•PAGE 10 » » MP ENGAGEMENT, CAMPAIGNING, & GETTING LEGISLATION PASSED •ROOM 210•PAGE 11 » » SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP•ROOM 211•PAGE 11 » » DEVELOPMENT SPENDING•ROOM 212•PAGE 11

6:00–12:00•CANADIAN FAIRTRADE AWARDS • HOSTED BY FAIRTRADE CANADA • LOWERTOWN BREWERY, 73 YORK STREET, OTTAWA

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Maude is the Honorary Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and chairs the board of Washington-based Food and Water Watch.

She serves on the executive of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and is a Councillor with the Hamburg-based World Future Council.

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By the time he retired from his career at the Co-op, the UK’s largest consumer co-operative, in August 2018, Brad Hill had affectionately become known as Mr. Fairtrade. Through 20 years of his strategic leadership, the Co-op had become the second largest seller of Fairtrade products in the world and helped establish the UK as the largest national Fairtrade market.

This despite the Co-op being a relatively small player in the highly competitive UK grocery sector.

From launching the world’s first Own Brand Fairtrade product almost 20 years ago, to pioneering educational resources, creating and developing producer projects and campaigning locally, Brad has been driven by his experiences of travelling across Africa, Asia, and Central and South America where he has witnessed firsthand the lifechanging impacts that Fairtrade can deliver.

Maude is the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorates as well as many awards, including the 2005 Right Livelihood Award (known as the “Alternative Nobel”), the 2005 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Fellowship Award, the Citation of Lifetime Achievement at the 2008 Canadian Environment Awards, the 2009 Earth Day Canada Outstanding Environmental Achievement Award, the 2009 Planet in Focus Eco Hero Award, and the 2011 EarthCare Award, the highest international honour of the Sierra Club (US).

In 2008/2009, she served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 18 books, including her latest, Blue Future: Protecting Water For People And The Planet Forever and Boiling Point, Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse and Canada’s Water Crisis.

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A qualified marketer with a commercial background, Brad was able to unlock the producers’ voices, persuade his business and its customers to increasingly support Fairtrade, and create genuine commercial benefits while generating significant amounts of Fairtrade Premium. His work has taken him from local schools to Buckingham Palace, as well as international business conferences, government fora, and countless Fairtrade producer communities across lesser developed countries.

Through Brad’s leadership and relentless pursuit of doing business in the right way, today’s UK Co-op is widely regarded as the world’s leading Fairtrade commercial supporter. Taking risks, innovating, and committing to producers to demonstrate that ethics and social responsibility are fundamental to delivering commercial success have been key elements of the strategy Brad launched two decades ago.

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S E SS I O N OV E R V I E W S : F R I DAY, M A R C H 1 CRASH COURSE ON FAIR TRADE

TRADE 101: BEYOND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE

Friday, March 1, 11:15 am to 12:30 pm, Room 209

Friday, March 1, 11:15 am to 12:30 pm, Room 212

Taking you from the rugged hills of Oaxaca to the aisles of your local grocery store, this session recounts fair trade’s origin story, sharing the pictures and tales that highlight the key leaders and moments in the growth of the fair trade movement. The first part outlines essential fair trade principles and shows how these principles have contributed to the lives and work of the men and women who produce coffee, cocoa, or handmade products. The second part presents an overview of Fair Trade designation programs—Fair Trade Town, Campus, School, Workplace, Event, Faith Group, and Ambassador.

By the end of this session, you will have deeper knowledge about fair trade, its benefits for producers, and a good overview of the different programs.

• Éric St-Pierre (Photojournalist) • Rita Steele (Fair Trade Vancouver)

The idea of comparative advantage is central to trade economics and frequently used among politicians and popular commentators in support of free trade. And yet, popular debate often misses its core concepts and ignores many of its most powerful critiques.

In this session, Dr. Gavin Fridell and Dr. Adam Sneyd provide an accessible overview on comparative advantage, using politics and history to dissect its core assumptions. Moving beyond comparative advantage, they offer concepts and tools for thinking about fair trade and free trade in a different light.

• Gavin Fridell (Saint Mary’s University) • Adam Sneyd (University of Guelph)

MINDFULNESS IN AN AGE OF BURNOUT

Friday, March 1, 11:15 am to 12:30 pm, Room 210

We’ve all seen the stats: 40 percent of workers report that their jobs are very or extremely stressful; 25 percent of people view their jobs as the number one stressor in their lives; 75 percent of employees believe that workers have more on-the-job stress than a generation ago; 26 percent of workers said they were “often or very often burned out or stressed by their work.” On top of this, many of us have multiple commitments outside of work, leaving little to no time to unwind. This session explores these issues and looks at ways to create balance in our lives.

• Jennifer Williams (Firefly Insights) • Mireille Saurette (Fair Trade Brandon)

RETAILING FAIR TRADE: FROM NICHE TO MAINSTREAM

Friday, March 1, 11:15 am to 12:30 pm, Room 211

It wasn’t that many years ago when fair trade was a vague concept understood by only those working in social justice. Today, you can find fair trade products in most stores from coast to coast. That said, while growth has been good in recent years, we have a long way to go, as market share percentages remain low. This session explores how we might go about changing that.

• John Marron (Fairtrade Canada) • Brad Hill (Fair Trade Consultant and Co-operative Group UK FT Champion) • Jeffrey York (Farm Boy)

GLOBAL UPDATE: WHAT’S WORKING AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN

Friday, March 1, 1:45 to 3:00 pm, Room 209

The fair trade movement has come a long way since the first handmade items were brought back from artisans in the South.

Commodities launched onto the scene in the 1970s, followed by labelling efforts in the 1980s. In more recent years, large global alliances have emerged, various labels have come onto the market, and producers now take a much more active role in how systems like Fairtrade International operate. While there’s a wide range of products available, and Fairtrade-certified products can now be found on store shelves in countries of origin, there have been issues, such as FT USA leaving the international system. There has also been incredible growth, such as Sweden growing its market share of Fairtrade-certified bananas from 0 percent to 50 percent. In the last couple of years, greater efforts have been made to create alliances, such as the Trade Fair. Live Fair. campaign in European Union. This session provides a high-level look at what’s happening across the globe, and what we as a movement in Canada can look toward for guidance and ideas.

• Sean McHugh (Canadian Fair Trade Network)

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THE ANATOMY OF A CAMPAIGN

Friday, March 1, 1:45 to 3:00 pm, Room 210 Dreaming big is easy, but how do we actually become agents of change through the power of advocacy campaigns? This sessions explores what makes an effective campaign and how to create a plan of action, reviews key tools to help mobilize your cause, and breaks down successful campaigns that moved the needle of impact.

• Pippa Rogers (Fairtrade Canada) • Terry Chemij (World Vision)

TAKING YOUR BUSINESS DEEPER, EMBEDDING ETHICS INTO EVERYTHING YOU DO

Friday, March 1, 1:45 to 3:00 pm, Room 211

The idea of business as an agent of change and a purveyor of positive values is gaining traction and legitimacy around the world. With a growing number of companies taking steps to be more responsible in how they treat employees, communities, and the planet, businesses are emerging as real players and solution-providers in the quest to put our world on a better course. This session examines the potential for business to be a force for good.

• Rafik Riad (Buy Good. Feel Good. Expo) • Paul Whitney (African Bronze Honey) • Mike Gifford (Open Concept)

BANANAS, BANANAS, BANANAS!

Friday, March 1, 1:45 to 3:00 pm, Room 212 Canadians consume 15 kilograms of bananas per year per capita, making it our favourite fruit by far. But most of us know little about this fruit: where it comes from, how it’s grown and by whom, and how it gets to supermarkets so cheaply. (Spoiler alert: it has to do with human and environmental exploitation!) This session explores the history of the banana, discusses the global commercial dynamics, and explains what makes a banana fair trade and what is in the works to make the industry more sustainable.

• Jennie Coleman (Equifruit)

FAIR TRADE SCHOOLS

Friday, March 1, 3:30 to 4:45 pm, Room 209 Open to anyone interested in the Fair Trade School program including teachers and students from schools with designations, this session gives a brief overview of the requirements and shares best practices to reach designation as a school. Participants can share their insights and brainstorm together about resource needs, school curricula, school events, and projects. The session also serves as a platform to connect with and learn from each other, and to know

where to go for resources or support.

• Bev Toews (Olds High School Teacher, Fair Trade Olds) • Emanuel Luckawiecki (Student at Pierre-Savard High School) • Laurie Savignac (Oxfam Quebec) • Derrick Essou (Oxfam Quebec)

HANDMADE, FAIR TRADE IN CANADA

Friday, March 1, 3:30 to 4:45 pm, Room 210

Handmade artisanal products helped form the foundation of what the fair trade movement is today. What does it mean for a handmade product to be fair trade? How do fair trade principles translate to artisanal work? And what does this look like on the ground? Furthermore, how do we increase awareness and sales of fair trade handmade products in Canada to truly drive impact to those producing? This session examines these questions and more.

• Chris Solt (Fair Trade Federation) • Melissa Stieber (More Than Half Clothing)

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT: MYTHBUSTING, HOW TO BECOME A SUPPLIER, AND SOCIAL PROCUREMENT

Friday, March 1, 3:30 to 4:45 pm, Room 211

The Government of Canada buys approximately $20 billion worth of goods and services per year. Given that, shifting public spending toward more sustainable goods and services can promote environmental and social responsibility. This session presents ways to bring more suppliers to the table and discusses how the government can leverage its spending power to support socio-economic outcomes.

• Helen Braiter (Public Services and Procurement Canada) • Andrea Knight (Public Services and Procurement Canada)

CLIMATE CHANGE IS EVERYONE’S BUSINESS: WORKING TOWARD POSITIVE IMPACT ON A DAILY BASIS

Friday, March 1, 3:30 to 4:45 pm, Room 212

In December 2015, world leaders signed a landmark agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. It’s been over three years since the agreement was signed, and the question remains: Have we made any progress? We need to take bold action if we hope to achieve its goals. The cost of doing nothing is high, for not only our global environment, but also our communities, businesses, and families. This session looks at this issue and discusses practical, real world changes that each of us can make.

• Monika Firl (Coop Coffees) • Alex Boulerice (Member of Parliament, NDP)

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S E SS I O N OV E R V I E W S : SAT U R DAY, M A R C H 2 FAIR TRADE TOWNS

Saturday, March 2, 10:45 am to 12:00 noon, Room 209 Open to anyone interested in the Fair Trade Town program, including people from designated towns, this session begins with a brief overview of designation requirements and then offers a facilitated space for participants to discuss recruiting and retaining volunteers, engaging businesses, and collaborating with elected officials and local councils. Participants can talk about the challenges they face, share pre- and post-designation best practices, and discuss organizing on a national scale. This session also serves as a platform for participants to connect with each other, learn about available resources and support, and celebrate their successes.

• Erin Bird (Fair Trade Calgary) • Mireille Saurette (Fair Trade Brandon) • Zack Gross (Fair Trade Gimli)

LIVING WAGE/LIVING INCOME

Saturday, March 2, 10:45 am to 12:00 noon, Room 210 After decades of working to improve the lives of farmers and workers, big questions remain: Can these farmers and workers now make a better living? How much is a living wage for a factory worker in Bangladesh? What is a living income for coffee farmers in Peru? The Fairtrade International system has set ambitious goals to reach living wages and living incomes for many farmers and workers by 2020.

This session unpacks how Fairtrade defines a decent livelihood and living wages and tackles the hard questions around pricing. Since introducing this topic at last year’s conference, headway has been made, including an increase to cocoa pricing. This session examines what comes next.

• Julie Francoeur (Fairtrade Canada)

FAIRTRADE APPAREL: CLOSER THAN WE MIGHT THINK?

Saturday, March 2, 10:45 am to 12:00 noon, Room 211

With a complex global supply chain, clothing and textiles affect the lives of millions around the world. Atrocities such as Rana Plaza emphasize the need for change, as well as the responsibility and effort needed to create it. While we recognize that true reform requires collaboration across industries and sectors, every individual and organization has a role to play. Furthermore, Fairtrade International recently launched its new textile standard, an initiative to certify the entire supply chain—from cotton production to garment manufacturing. Yet even with this new, ambitious standard, getting fair trade garments into Canadian stores seems like a distant reality.

This session discusses the challenges and opportunities.

• Helen Reimer (Fairtrade Canada • Loïc de Fabritus (QUINTUS Marketing, etik & co)

TRADE POLICY: EMBEDDING SUSTAINABILITY AND FAIRNESS

Saturday, March 2, 10:45 am to 12:00 noon, Room 212

Confidence in free trade has been shaken in recent years. Free trade policies and prescriptions are increasingly questioned and openly debated by politicians, governments, social movements, unions, and commentators across the globe and across the political spectrum.

For fair traders, this raises new and old questions around what fair trade could look like at the policy level, at home and internationally.

What does an alternative trade policy grounded in fairness, global justice, and solidarity look like? Drawing on examples from trade agreements and multi-stakeholder initiatives, this session examines these questions.

• Gavin Fridell (Saint Mary’s University) • Michèle Rioux (CEIM, Université du Québec à Montréal) • Sylvain Zini (CEIM, Université du Québec à Montréal) • Kelly Pike (York University)

FAIR TRADE CAMPUSES

Saturday, March 2, 1:15 to 2:30 pm, Room 209 This session is open to anyone interested in or already involved with the Fair Trade Campus program. The first part covers requirements for the baseline, Silver, and Gold standards; discusses case studies of student involvement; and reviews arguments for fair trade on campus.

The second part is a facilitated discussion, where participants can share and brainstorm about retaining volunteers, shifting procurement practices, and incorporating fair trade into academic settings.

• Rita Steele (Fair Trade Vancouver) • Sophie St-Laurent (World University Services Canada) • Maryann Moffitt (University of Ottawa) • Nikki Mertens (Fair Trade Ambassador at SFU) • Jesus Pulido Castanon (Fair Trade Ambassador at SFU)

MP ENGAGEMENT, CAMPAIGNING AND GETTING LEGISLATION PASSED

Saturday, March 2, 1:15 to 2:30 pm, Room 210

Working with elected officials is an effective way to advocate for the issues you care about. While it can seem like a daunting experience for those who have never done it, it needn’t be scary.

Elected representatives have the responsibility of listening to the

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concerns of their constituents. This session covers strategies and best practices in working with political offices to ensure your ideas are heard. It also considers the necessary steps toward building out a national advocacy team that can help coordinate, train, and push out campaigns • Sasha Caldera (Canadians for Tax Fairness) • Neha Beri (RESULTS Canada)

SOCIAL MEDIA WORKSHOP

Saturday, March 2, 1:15 to 2:30 pm, Room 211 Social media are interactive computer-mediated technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, career interests, and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks—and there are lots of them. This session explores the nuts and bolts of social media, focusing on two core elements: 1) the basics of which platforms are out there and how they work, and 2) strategies on how to best use them to communicate a message and engage people.

• Pippa Rogers (Fairtrade Canada) • Loïc de Fabritus (QUINTUS Marketing, etik & co)

OFFICIAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE: RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE FAIR TRADE MOVEMENT

Saturday, March 2, 1:15 to 2:30 pm, Room 212

Canada currently spends $4.29 billion to Official Development Assistance (ODA) every year, ranking ninth in the world in total spending. However, when viewed as percentage of Gross National Income (GNI), Canada falls down the list. Currently Canada spends 0.28 percent of its GNI on ODA, far from the goal of 0.70 percent, which has been reached and exceeded by six countries.

Furthermore, Canada needs to be more transparent about how it spends ODA money. Ideally, more of this money should be used to support co-operatives and farmers, encourage partnerships in global supply chains, and bolster efforts to add value at origin.

This session discusses how we can build the case for tying together ODA spending, Canadian consumer and business behaviour, and government procurement.

• Kenneth Boddy (Engineers Without Borders Canada) • Andrew Defor (Canadian Foodgrains Bank)

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Saturday, March 2, 3:00 to 4:15 pm, Room 209

Many Fair Trade Campuses have been building on their achievements to broaden the amount of fair trade products available to their students. As we push toward the Silver and Gold levels of designation, we must learn to engage with new players and overcome new obstacles. In this seminar, participants can work with co-facilitators 11

S E SS I O N OV E R V I E W S : SAT U R DAY, M A R C H 2 to develop strategies for engaging the various franchisees on their campuses. The seminar begins with an overview of the various franchisees present on Canadian campuses. Then it draws from the experience of campus activists, franchisee employees and owners, and campus policy makers to help develop an effective, national franchisee campaign. In the latter half of the seminar, participants can reverse-engineer a stakeholder analysis (power, legitimacy, and urgency) map. From this framework, they can develop their own individual campaigns that feed into a broader nationwide effort to engage new players, overcome obstacles, and create meaningful change.

• Madison Hopper (Green Campus Co-op) • Mark McLaughlin (Simon Fraser University)

TEACHING RESOURCES

COCOA: FROM BEAN TO BAR

Saturday, March 2, 3:00 to 4:15 pm, Room 210

HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES

CASE STUDIES

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Cocoa has been cultivated by many cultures for at least three millennia, with some of the earliest traces dating back to 1900 BCE. Today cocoa is enjoyed all over the world and is produced, shaped, sculpted, and offered in an infinite number of ways. Its origins, however, can be a complicated matter, with the majority of the world’s cocoa coming from West Africa, specifically, the Ivory Coast and Ghana. It’s estimated that over 50 million people around the world rely upon cocoa as a source of income. La Siembra co-operative, makers of Camino chocolate, has been an industry leader for many years in Canada. This session profiles some of the cocoa producers La Siembra works with, examines the co-operative’s sourcing and manufacturing processes, and includes a small chocolate tasting.

• Kelly Storie (La Siembra)

MODERN SLAVERY–HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILIGENCE LEGISLATION

Saturday, March 2, 3:00 to 4:15 pm, Room 211

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights is a platform for coordinated multilateral action on regulation of businesses in the field of forced labour, and a growing number of governments around the world are taking legal action to ensure the accountability and commitment of businesses in addressing forced labour in their supply chains. Our hope is to see our federal government put in place legislation that requires all companies to identify, report, and address human rights risks within their supply chains. Since this topic was introduced at our last conference, considerable progress has

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been made. This session provides an update on campaign efforts and discusses how the government has responded to date.

• Julie Francoeur (Fairtrade Canada) • Simon Lewchuk (World Vision Canada)

FAIR TRADE AND E-COMMERCE: THE BASICS OF ONLINE SALES AND DIGITAL MARKETING

Saturday, March 2, 3:00 to 4:15 pm, Room 212

Because more and more Canadians are purchasing goods and services online, e-commerce represents a great opportunity for brands and businesses to build a more direct relationship with their customers. How can fair trade brands and businesses benefit from digital marketing and online sales? What are the different platforms available to sell online, and what are their respective advantages?

This session reviews the potential of e-commerce for fair trade businesses, discusses the best ways to use social media and content marketing to tell the stories behind your products and reach conscious consumers, and shares tips and tools to start selling online, introducing some concepts such as SEO, sales funnels, influencer marketing, etc.

• Loïc de Fabritus, QUINTUS Marketing, etik & co

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SPEAKER BIOS ADAM SNEYD — UNIVERSIT Y OF GUELPH Adam is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Science at the University of Guelph. He is the author of Governing Cotton: Globalization and Poverty in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Cotton (Polity Press, 2016), and Politics Rules: Power, Globalization and Development (Fernwood, 2019). Adam is co-editor of the social sciences and policy section of Scientific African. His current research focuses on the politics of commodities, and also on the politics of science in the African context.

ALEXANDRE BOULERICE Alexandre was elected Member for the riding of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in the 2011 Canadian federal election and currently serves as the NDP Environment and Climate Change critic and Quebec Lieutenant. His primary focus of concerns include the fair redistribution of wealth, citizen participation, and environmental issues. Prior to politics, he worked as a TV journalist, as well as Vice-President of the union representing journalists. He holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Montreal and an MA in Political Science from McGill University.

ANDREW DEFOR — CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK Andrew is a Policy Advisor at Canadian Foodgrains Bank, where he builds relationships with federal government officials and provides food security policy advice to influence government international assistance policy.

Before coming into the role, he interned as an Advocacy and Government Relations Analyst at CARE Canada, while working as VP at the Canadian International Council’s Toronto Branch. Andrew started his international development career as a Policy Analyst at the World Health Organization in Geneva. In this role, he worked with ambassadors and senior government officials from UN member states and advised governments on global security policy. Andrew has a master’s degree in public and international affairs from York University, is pursuing a PhD in global security policy, and is a Senior Fellow at the Canadian International Council.

BEV TOEWS — FAIR TRADE OLDS Thirty-three years ago, Bev was gifted with a More-with-Less cookbook from Ten Thousand Villages as a wedding present. She was captivated by its stories about people in other countries and the disparities between those living in North America and the Global South.

Shortly after, Bev read the book’s sequel, Living More with Less, which also helped

fuel her passion for social justice and human rights, and her desire to meet people from a variety of cultures and walks of life. Bev is currently the Chairperson of the Fair Trade Olds committee, an advisor for the Fair Trade committee at Olds High School, and is an Alberta representative on the board of the Canadian Fair Trade Network. Bev has lived in Olds, Alberta, for the past 26 years and has worked as an educational assistant at Olds High School in Olds for the past 19 years.

CHRIS SOLT — FAIR TRADE FEDERATION (FTF) As Executive Director of Fair Trade Federation, Chris manages the strategic, administrative, and programmatic aspects of the organization.

He also researches, develops, and implements FTF’s educational programs; facilitates peer mentoring; and coordinates content for member events. Chris has dedicated much of his career toward strengthening fair trade businesses and advancing the goals of the larger fair trade movement. Chris has helped shape member education programs, led the coordination and planning for FTF conferences, and represented FTF at gift shows and events across the US and Canada. He has developed relationships with fair trade professionals from all over the world, including travels to India and Nepal, where he saw the impact of fair trade first hand.

EMANUEL LUKAWIECKI FAIR TRADE OT TAWA ÉQUITABLE Emanuel has been involved in the fair trade movement since 2017 when he visited Costa Rica as a volunteer and participated in the development of fair trade coffee farms.

Emanuel is a member of Fair Trade Ottawa Équitable (FTOÉ) and the leader of the environment committee at his high school.

Emanuel’s school is working toward its Fair Trade designation, which would be the first in Ottawa. ÉRIC ST-PIERRE — PHOTOJOURNALIST Éric is a professional photojournalist who has specialized in fair trade since 1996. He has visited 20 countries and has documented 15 different fair trade products. He has presented four major photo exhibits and published three books of photographs on fair trade. A speaker and specialist in fair trade, Éric is a founding member of the Association québécoise du commerce équitable. In 2013–2014, Éric and his family spent 18 months living in Burkina Faso, where Éric volunteered for the Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI), doing communication and marketing work with national organizations of the rice industry. Éric now works for Oxfam-Québec.

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ERIN BIRD — FAIR TRADE CALGARY Erin Bird is an Engineer by day at the City of Calgary, but her second “job” and passion is to lead the campaign for Calgary to become a Fair Trade Town. Fair Trade Calgary sits within Engineers Without Borders Calgary Professional Chapter, and the group has been working hard over the last couple of years to achieve a Fair Trade Town designation. Erin is also an executive member of the Canadian Fair Trade Network’s board. Erin’s other hobbies are cooking with Fairtrade ingredients, dancing in Fairtrade banana costumes, reading while drinking Fairtrade tea, and relaxing with family and friends.

GAVIN FRIDELL CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STUDIES AT SAINT MARY’S UNIVERSIT Y Gavin is the author of three books, Coffee (2014), Alternative Trade (2013), and Fair Trade Coffee (2007), and numerous articles on fair trade and free trade. He holds a PhD in Political Science from York University and is a member of the College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. His latest research explores socially responsible trade policy, the political economy of NAFTA, and Caribbean trade. Gavin is a member of the advisory council of the Canadian Fair Trade Network.

HELEN BRAITER PUBLIC SERVICES AND PROCUREMENT CANADA (PSPC) Helen Braiter has been with PSPC for 20 years and is the Senior Director of the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises - National Capital Region office. Previously, she held executive positions in the areas of client engagement and departmental transformation. She was the founder of the Build in Canada Innovation Program, a $40 million program that aims to promote innovation and support Canadian business development.

An environmental engineer by training, Helen has worked in many areas within PSPC including policy, risk management, and supplier engagement. She was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 for fostering a culture of innovation in the government and for supporting innovative Canadian businesses.

HELEN REIMER — FAIRTRADE CANADA Helen is Director of Business Development at Fairtrade Canada and has been involved in the Fairtrade movement as a consumer since it started in the UK. She is passionate about social justice and sustainable poverty relief, so much so that she moved to Canada in 2013 to pioneer Christians Against Poverty, a charity that works with churches to tackle poverty in local communities across Canada. As Director of Business Development, Helen works with businesses across Canada to create and develop new opportunities to drive sales for Fairtrade products.

Helen also loves healthy and sustainable food and is a founding member of the Mustard Seed Food Co-op in Hamilton, ON. JENNIE COLEMAN – EQUIFRUIT Jennie has been Owner / President of Equifruit since 2013. She combines a lengthy career in business with longstanding social justice roots, set during two years’ volunteer work in Namibia in the mid-1990s. She loves fair trade for its pragmatic approach to international development. She loves Equifruit for… the fruit (YUM!), the farmers, and the fact that something as simple as eating a fair trade banana can have such a positive impact on someone’s life.

JENNIFER WILLIAMS — FIREFLY INSIGHTS Jennifer is the Chief Firefly at Firefly Insights, a progressive coaching and consulting firm that is working to shift consciousness in business by shining light in areas of darkness. Jennifer has spent her career focusing on how businesses can create a kind and just world, and was instrumental in the growth of a workerowned business that pioneered fair trade in Canada. Jennifer consults with ESOP Builders to support companies as they transition to employee ownership, and, with her partner, owns goodfood2u, an organic food business in Ottawa. Jennifer also facilitates the CFTN’s trips to origin to visit fair trade co-operatives and producers.

JESUS PULIDO CASTANON SIMON FRASER UNIVERSIT Y (SFU) Jesus is a PhD candidate in resource management at SFU. With a background in economics, he specializes in rural development and sustainable agriculture in Latin American countries. He is deeply passionate about fair trade, organic farming and other strategies that can help alleviate rural poverty in the Global South. He is a Fair Trade Ambassador at SFU and currently supervising group projects doing research into fair trade on campus in a sustainable development class.

JOHN MARRON — FAIRTRADE CANADA John joined Fairtrade Canada in 2014, having worked in the private sector for over 15 years with a number of major international corporations in sales, channel, and key account management roles. As the Director of Commercial Relations for Fairtrade Canada, John focuses on B2B engagement with major grocery retailers, food distributors, and key foodservice providers. Originally from Ireland, John is now based in Ottawa, and he is delighted to be attending his fifth National Fair Trade Conference. He is looking forward to the opportunity to share experiences and collaborate on ways to expand awareness about fair trade in the year ahead.

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JULIE FRANCOEUR — FAIRTRADE CANADA Julie’s passion sits at the crossroad of sustainability, international development, and trade. That’s an ideal spot from which to lead Fairtrade Canada as Executive Director.

Julie has an MBA in emerging markets, a BA in international development, and a Diploma in African development. She started her career in Montreal with Équiterre in responsible cotton import supply chains and sustainable trade advocacy. She then worked in Bolivia on closed loop municipal waste management for two years before moving to the Caribbean to run field operations for Fairtrade International. In 13 countries, she built sustainable supply chains from the ground up, working with farmer co-ops, brands, traders, millers, factories, unions, governments, and everyone in between. Her work on climate change mitigation, labour rights, and social compliance in coffee, cocoa, bananas, mango, wine, cotton, and sugar has shaped her. When she moved to Argentina in 2012, her focus changed to South-South trade and the role of governments in enabling systemic changes in terms of trade, human rights, sustainable urban planning, and poverty reduction. She knows hands-on that sustainable supply chains and empowering farmers and workers is messy hard work that often fails. But she has also seen success and is adamant to help others scale up that impact.

KELLY PIKE – INTERIM DIRECTOR OF THE GLOBAL LABOUR RESEARCH CENTRE, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, YORK UNIVERSIT Y Kelly Pike earned a PhD in industrial and labour relations from Cornell University. She specializes in the role of worker voice and participation in the regulation of international labour standards, with a particular focus on the global garment industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research contributes to the literature on regulating labour in global value chains. Her doctoral dissertation analyzes workers’ perceptions of labour standards compliance in two global value chains in Lesotho’s clothing industry, demonstrating how ownership nationality and end market influence these perceptions, and what the repercussions of poor supervisor relations are for labour standards compliance. In her current research she examines the relationship between multistakeholder initiatives and compliance with labour standards, with particular interest in the role of trade unions, worker-management committees, and other forums for activating worker voice.

KELLY STORIE — LA SIEMBRA Kelly is Co-Executive Director of La Siembra Co-op, the makers of Camino, and sits on the boards of several co-operative organizations in North America. Last June, she led a group of investors on a homestay with the cocoa farming members of Acopagro in San Martin, Peru.

KENNETH BODDY — ENGINEERS WITHOUT BORDERS Kenneth currently works as the Government Relations Coordinator with Engineers Without Borders and is completing a master’s degree

in international affairs and African studies.

Kenneth got involved with fair trade in 2012 when he joined the Engineers Without Borders chapter at Carleton University. For him, fair trade offered a unique opportunity to work on an issue that truly sought to empower people around the world. In 2013, Kenneth founded Fair Trade Carleton University and worked with the community and school administration to make Carleton a Fair Trade Campus. In the coming years, Kenneth is interested in how he can blend a background in public policy with his passion for the goals of the fair trade movement.

KORI LIVERSAGE — UNIVERSIT Y OF OT TAWA Kori is studying psychology at the University of Ottawa and is interested in topics relating to the wellbeing of the planet and all of its inhabitants. Kori is a prominent member of the University of Ottawa campus as she works diligently with Food Services and the Office of Campus Sustainability to help them foster more ecological and impactful practices. Most notably, Kori is the coordinator for the People’s Republic of Delicious (PRD), a volunteer organization that collects food from local grocers that would otherwise be thrown out and transforms this food into free, plant-based meals for the community. Whether in her professional or personal life, Kori is known to uphold a warm sense of community and encourages others to think collectively and compassionately.

LOÏC DE FABRITUS QUINTUS MARKETING AND ETIK & CO Loïc is based in Montreal, where he has been for four years. Previous to moving to Montreal, Loïc was a parliamentary adviser to a Green member of the European Parliament. Loïc studied political science and has a master’s in environmental law. In recent years, Loïc has worked for Équiterre, an environmental NGO in Quebec, been a project manager for the Association québécoise du commerce équitable, and launched etik & co. Loïc is currently a marketing and communications project manager at QUINTUS Marketing MADISON HOPPER EQUIFRUIT / GREEN CAMPUS COT TON Madison Hopper has a master’s in business and the environment from York University/ Schulich School of Business. During this time she specialized in various market intervention strategies for social entrepreneurs that emphasize sustainable practices, particularly focusing on issues of trade justice. Madison now works as Marketing Coordinator for Equifruit, a fair trade, organic banana company, and runs operations for Green Campus Cotton, a business that supplies fair trade and organic T-shirts to a number of campuses. She is a member of the York University Fair Trade Campus steering committee, which is currently working on achieving a Fair Trade designation, while also designing fair trade procurement policies for the university’s franchisee vendors.

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MARK MCLAUGHLIN SIMON FRASER UNIVERSIT Y (SFU) Mark is Chief Commercial Services Officer at SFU. Mark was instrumental in SFU’s Fair Trade Campus designation in 2012 and he successfully lead the school’s push to convince Starbucks to serve fair trade coffee on Canadian campuses in 2014. Mark has since been elected to the board of Fairtrade Canada and acts as treasurer. Mark is currently leading SFU’s Sustainable Mobility Advisory Committee, tackling the challenges of active transportation and mobility, and is bent on eradicating Styrofoam and plastic straws from SFU’s campuses. In 2014, Mark was named the inaugural staff winner of the SFU President’s Award for Leadership in Sustainability and in 2016, SFU Dining Services, under Mark’s direction, was named the SFU Champion for a Healthy Campus. Mark just led SFU’s first StreetFest @ UniverCity, a community-building event on top of Burnaby Mountain.

Next on the list is to find a way to leverage SFU’s purchasing power to help social and Indigenous enterprise in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

MARYANN MOFFIT T — UNIVERSIT Y OF OT TAWA Maryann is a Registered Dietitian working for Food Services at the University of Ottawa, which was designated a Fair Trade Campus in 2014. Maryann has been the chair of the Fair Trade Campus steering committee since 2015, and has developed partnerships across campus to promote fair trade products to students and staff alike.

MELISSA STIEBER — MORE THAN HALF CLOTHING Melissa has been working in the fair trade community for the past 12 years. She started a fair trade and organic clothing retailer called More Than Half in her hometown of Kitchener, Ontario, and has owned and operated this business for the past five years. Melissa is passionate about all things fair trade and ethical living. She works closely with those in her community of Kitchener Waterloo by leading a Fair Trade Town campaign, participating in many sustainability markets such as the Eco Market, and working part time at a health food store where she acts as an ethical advisor for product sourcing. Melissa has been a member of the CFTN since 2013 and a member of the Fair Trade Federation since 2014.

MICHÈLE RIOUX UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL Michèle is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Université du Québec à Montréal. She has been Director of the Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM) since October 2011, and was previously Director of Research at the CEIM. She was Erasmus Mundus Professor, MAPP consortium, at the Institute

of International Studies in Barcelona from January to June 2013. A specialist in international political economy, Michèle has focused her research on international organizations and global governance, transnational corporations, competition, the information society and the telecommunications sector, economic integration, and regionalism.

MIREILLE SAURET TE — FAIR TRADE BRANDON Mireille was born and raised in Winnipeg.

She has travelled to more than 50 countries, half from the Global South. She spent six years in Rwanda. She currently lives in Brandon, MB, where she participates in social, environmental, and fair trade activities. She’s an active member of the City of Brandon’s environment committee and the Marquis Project. She helped create the City of Brandon’s Fair Trade Town steering committee. She works in student services at Assiniboine Community College.

MONIKA FIRL — COOP COFFEES Since 2002, Monika has been Director of Sustainability at Coop Coffees in Montreal.

She lived in Central America and Mexico from 1991 to 2000 and worked with a variety of local development projects. She founded and directed a centre in San Salvador for the exchange of information on alternative technology, she coordinated a regional campesino a campesino program to promote organic practices and market alternatives with farmer groups in Mexico and Central America. Monika holds a master’s degree in journalism as well as a BA in international relations and German.

NEHA BERI — RESULTS CANADA Neha is the Parliamentary Officer at RESULTS Canada, where she provides parliamentary strategies to help eradicate extreme poverty.

Neha holds a BA in political science with a minor in communications from Carleton University. Prior to her time with RESULTS Canada, she worked as a constituency, parliamentary, and legislative assistant for various Members of Parliament. Neha has worked for RESULTS for a year and loves using her political knowledge to help those around the world.

NIKKI MERTENS — SIMON FRASER UNIVERSIT Y (SFU) Nikki is in her fifth and final year of studies at SFU, completing a sustainable business joint major with the faculties of business and environment.

Nikki’s passion for social and environmental change has led to her involvement with SFU Fair Trade as an ambassador. In November 2017, Nikki got the chance to meet with fair trade farmers and co-operative members in Ecuador thanks to SFU’s sponsorship. She aspires to have a career in different jobs that help to protect our environment and empower marginalized communities.

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PAUL WHITNEY — AFRICAN BRONZE HONEY Paul is the co-founder and Managing Director of the African Bronze Honey Company, a for-profit, social enterprise B Corp, partnered with forest beekeeping projects in Africa and Central America. He is committed to sustainable practice and preserving traditional heritage while creating economic opportunities for independent beekeepers and their families. Paul is a serial entrepreneur engaged in global, structural, and economic change.

PIPPA ROGERS — FAIRTRADE CANADA Pippa is Director of Marketing and Communications at Fairtrade Canada. She has a passion for H2H experiences, storytelling, and facilitating value-driven exchanges that help build relationships within and among communities. With experience leading communications and marketing projects in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors, Pippa has developed a collaborative, human-centric approach to her work that focuses on empowering the voices of the community she is engaged with. She is deeply devoted to sustainability and living a life that is mindful of the planet and people who inhabit it.

RAFIK RIAD — BUY GOOD. FEEL GOOD. Originally from Egypt, Rafik has studied and worked globally on policy design and project implementation in the field of international development. In 2011, Rafik founded SALT, a fair trade social enterprise that worked with communities in Africa and Latin America.

Rafik’s appreciation for social enterprise as a business model that circumvents both the volatility of traditional development frameworks and the shortcomings of conventional corporate models led him to found Buy Good. Feel Good. in 2014. Today Buy Good. Feel Good. is North America’s largest marketplace dedicated to connecting social enterprises with buyers and consumers.

RITA STEELE — FAIR TRADE VANCOUVER Rita is Executive Director of Fair Trade Vancouver. She is also the founder and director of the Rural Roots Ghana Scholarship, a program for children of fair trade cocoa farmers in New Koforidua, Africa’s first Fair Trade Town. Rita first got involved in fair trade over five years ago as a volunteer with Fair Trade Vancouver and has continued to incorporate fair trade into her life and studies. Rita has a BSc in global resource systems with a specialization in ethics and sustainability in global supply chains from the University of British Columbia and a master’s of management from the Sauder School of Business. Rita serves on the CFTN board in order to work toward expanding and improving communications and networks among fair trade stakeholders in Canada.

SASHA CALDERA CANADIANS FOR TAX FAIRNESS Sasha Caldera leads beneficial ownership transparency advocacy efforts as part of a coalition between Canadians for Tax Fairness, Transparency International Canada, and Publish What You Pay Canada. His commentary has appeared in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and Devex.

SEAN MCHUGH CANADIAN FAIR TRADE NETWORK (CFTN) Sean is the founder and Executive Director of the CFTN. Sean’s passion for global sustainability grew out of international travel and time spent working in Kenya. Sean moved back to Vancouver in 2009 and got involved with Fair Trade Vancouver, helping the city become Canada’s 11th Fair Trade Town. Sean later became the organization’s Executive Director, and worked with the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University as they became Canada’s first and second Fair Trade Campuses. In 2011, Sean founded the Canadian Fair Trade Network as an effort to build a stronger, more organized social movement in Canada. Sean has overseen the expansion of numerous programs, has led six national conferences, and developed and grown the organization’s bi-annual publication, Fair Trade Magazine. Sean represents Canada on the International Fair Trade Towns Committee, sits on the Trade 4 Sustainable Development Stakeholder Advisory Committee, and the Real Food Challenge Advisory Committee, an initiative of Meal Exchange Canada.

SOPHIE ST-LAURENT WORLD UNIVERSIT Y SERVICE OF CANADA (WUSC) Sophie is a Program Officer for Youth and Campus Engagement with WUSC. She has been working with youth for over eight years, developing and facilitating workshops and activities to engage youth about global development issues and empower young leaders to share and discuss the importance of youth engagement in the development of their communities. For the past couple of years, Sophie has been encouraging campuses from the WUSC network to raise awareness about ethical consumption and work toward Fair Trade Campus designations through WUSC’s #OneWorld campaign.

SYLVAIN ZINI — CENTRE D ’ENTREPRISES ET D ’INNOVATION DE MONTRÉAL (CEIM) Sylvain is a member of CEIM and a lecturer at Université du Québec à Montréal and Université de Montréal. An economist and political scientist, Sylvain focuses his research on the global political economy of labour. He holds a PhD in political science since 2014, and his dissertation deals with the link between labour and trade in US trade policy. His work focuses on mechanisms to reconcile globalization with social progress

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and the improvement of working conditions. In 2017, he co-directed a research project titled Canada: Towards a Socially Responsible Trade Policy. This project took the form of a pan-Canadian public consultation that produced the report “A challenge for Canada and its partners,” published in December 2017 for the Government of Canada.

TERRY CHEMIJ — WORLD VISION Terry is World Vision’s Manager of Engagement and Awareness. He leads various advocacy campaigns including the No Child For Sale campaign, which focuses on conscious consumerism and supply chain legislation. Before joining World Vision, Terry served provincially and federally as a campaign manager and political staffer. He also has experience in field-facing work through his service with other development organizations working in Sudan, South Sudan, and Uganda.

ZACK GROSS Zack has worked in the international development sector for almost 50 years. He also currently facilitates online international development courses through the University of British Columbia’s Continuing Education Diploma Program, and is a Sessional Lecturer in International Development Studies at Menno Simons College at the University of Winnipeg. He chairs the Gimli Fair Trade Town committee. Zack writes a regular op-ed column called “Small World” in the Brandon Sun, and has recently written for Fair Trade Magazine and The Green Teacher. Living in Manitoba’s Interlake Region, he is also on the board of Evergreen Basic Needs, Gimli’s food bank and thrift shop.

Zack has received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, was a finalist for Interlake Volunteer of the Year, and was nominated as a CBC Champion of Change. In 2015, he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Fairtrade Canada. Recently retired, Zack worked as the Outreach Coordinator for Fair Trade Manitoba, a program of the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation. Currently, Zack sits on the Canadian Fair Trade Network’s advisory council and Fairtrade Canada’s board.

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