Interested in Financial Literacy?

Then attend the groundbreaking conference at McGill University, February 17, 2010:
“Strengthening Financial Literacy: a National Strategy for Canada”

with speaker M. L. Jacques Ménard, Chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns, President of BMO Financial Group and Vice Chair- Canada’s Task Force on Financial Literacy
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 6 to 8pm
Leacock 26, Leacock Building, McGill University

Find out about the inner workings of the newly appointed Canada’s Task Force on Financial Literacy from Vice Chair L. Jacques Ménard in what will be one of the first public appearances by a task force member since the specially named committee undertook the task in June of 2009 of developing a National Strategy for government review by December of 2010.

Co-hosted by McGill’s School of Social Work, the Faculty of Arts and the Principal’s Fund as well as the University Women’s Club of Montreal (UWCM), all members of the McGill community, the media and the public at large are invited to attend what promises to be an exciting introduction to the issue of financial literacy by one of Quebec’s most thought-provoking opinion makers today.

The organization of this event is part of the University Women’s Club of Montreal’s advocacy work following the successful 2009 adoption by the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) of our club’s resolution concerning the recognition of financial literacy as an essential life skill and the need for the development of the appropriate national strategy to ensure access to unbiased educational programming for Canadians of all ages.

Brenda Shanahan, UWCM board and resolutions committee member