Marc Lee

Senior Economist

Marc researches and writes on a variety of economic and social policy issues for the CCPAs BC and National Offices. In addition to tracking federal and provincial budgets and economic trends, Marc has published on a wide range of topics from poverty and inequality to globalization and international trade to public services and regulation. He is the Director of the Climate Justice Project, which looks at climate change and energy policies in BC and nationally, integrated with social justice. Marc was “classically trained,” with an MA in Economics from Simon Fraser University and a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario. But most of the time he argues against the conventional wisdom in economics and policy debates. He is a past Vice Chair of the Vancouver City Planning Commission. Marc also worked for the federal government in the mid-1990s as an economist in the Information and Communications Technology branch of Industry Canada. Follow Marc on Twitter