Past conferences
President’s Annual Reports
The annual general meeting is held on the second day of the conference. Agendas and minutes will be disseminated prior to the meeting, and minutes published on this site once approved by the Executive and Board.
- 2024 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
- 2023 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
- 2020 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
- 2019 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
- 2018 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
- 2017 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
- 2016 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
- 2015 President’s Annual Report to the AGM
Past Conferences
2025 Conference – Intergovernmental relations: a vision for Canada’s future?
Intergovernmental relations are at the heart of Canada’s political functioning. The coordination of programs, public policies, and jurisdictions between the federal government, the provinces, and municipalities is essential to ensuring effective governance and responding to contemporary issues. To better understand these dynamics, CAPPA is pleased to invite you to its 13th annual conference, which will explore the future of intergovernmental relations in Canada.
Our conference will bring together researchers – doctoral students and scholars – who study the various dimensions that characterize interactions between levels of government.
All information about the conference is available here.
2024 Conference – Standing at the edge of the cliff?
Every day, the news reports a variety of crises around the globe, including natural disasters such as wildfires and floods, the pandemic, and socioeconomic crises such as homelessness, food insecurity, and wars. These events are seeping into everyone’s reality, no longer affecting specific remote regions but increasingly demanding concerted and coordinated responses from all government authorities. The simultaneous climate crisis, escalating inflation, resource scarcity, and the looming recession imperil our citizens’ quality of life. While governments strive to find solutions, these often prove to be temporary and short-term, underscoring government officials’ challenges in reacting swiftly and effectively. We must ask ourselves: are we standing at the edge of the cliff? It is imperative for governments not only to learn to navigate this new reality but also to craft innovative, sustainable, and inclusive solutions to the social, economic, and environmental difficulties they encounter. Let’s pave the way to a brighter future!
2023 Conference – Standing up to the Wave
Public services across Canada and the globe face critical challenges and unique opportunities to change how public administrations think, shape and deliver many of their core services. Centering public sector values as the animating force, our 2023 conference challenges us to interrogate anew how ethics, accountability and transparency remain critical to public administrations that are facing unique and evolving pressures.
Our 2023 conference theme of ‘Standing up to the Wave’ highlights key issues and opportunities facing the study, teaching, and practice of public administration, with a mix of individual researcher presentations, panels and plenary sessions. This year’s conference will also be anchored by presentations and a workshop that focus directly on opening up new discussions about the future of public sector ethics and accountability in Canada.
2020 Conference – Divides and Paradoxes in Public Administration: Challenges or Opportunities?
This year’s CAPPA conference will be held as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 31 to June 2, 2020. While opened to all areas of research, we encourage the submission of papers and panels related to Congress’ overall theme, which addresses the broad concept of bridging divides.
Information about the CAPPA 2020 Conference, being held at the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities in London can be found on the conference webpage: cappa.ca/conference/2020
2019 Conference – Public Administration for the 21st Century: Continuity and Change
The Canadian Association for Programs in Public Administration (CAPPA) is pleased to announce its eighth annual Research Conference in Public Administration, Policy, and Management. It will be held in Montreal, at Concordia University, from May 23-24, 2019
2018 Conference – Gathering diversities | mâmawinitotân nanâtohk-ayisiyiniwa
CAPPA’s seventh annual Research Conference in Public Administration, Policy, and Management was held May 31 – June 1, 2018 at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan. Building on the theme of Congress 2018, “Gathering diversities | mâmawinitotân nanâtohk-ayisiyiniwa,” the conference featured diverse gatherings in Canadian, Indigenous, Provincial and Territorial contexts that have engendered new innovations that enable communities to thrive, particularly in adverse times.