About Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters
Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters is run by business, for your business. Canada's largest trade and industry association, CME promotes the continuous improvement of Canadian manufacturing and exporting through engagement of government at all levels. Its mandate is to promote the competitiveness of Canadian manufacturers and enable the success of Canadian goods and services exporters in markets around the world.
Representing Canada's largest business network, CME's membership is drawn from all sectors of Canada's manufacturing and exporting community and from every province across the country. The association represents Canada's leading global enterprises and more than 85% of CME's members are small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Together, CME's membership accounts for an estimated 75% of total manufacturing production and 90% of Canada's exports. CME is the developer and gatekeeper of www.icosmo.ca web site. This site is the only electronic matchmaking opportunity for oilsand buyers and sellers to meet and determine compatibility.
About Jayson Myers, PhD.
Jayson Myers is the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and is in charge of CME's national policy office in Ottawa. He is also the President of his own economics consulting firm. Dr. Myers is a well-known economic commentator, and is widely published in the fields of Canadian and international economics, technological and industrial change. He has been recognized by consulting firm Watson Wyatt as the most accurate economic forecaster in Canada.
Dr. Myers is a director on the Board of Materials and Manufacturing Ontario and the Canadian European Roundtable for Business. He sits on special advisory councils to the Minister for International Trade, the Minister of Industry, and the Bank of Canada. Dr. Myers chairs the Business Coalition on Cost Recovery and the Canadian Services Coalition. He is also a regional director of the Canadian Forces Liaison Council and Project Leader of CME's Manufacturing 20/20 initiative, a cross-country discussion about the future of manufacturing in Canada.
Dr. Myers studied at Queen's University, Kingston and the University of British Columbia in Canada, and at the London School of Economics and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He has held appointments as a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and a lecturer in international studies at Warwick University, also in the U.K. He is currently the analyst for Canadian affairs for Oxford Analytica, and international consulting group based at Oxford University
