Catherine Susan Swift is a Canadian businesswoman. She was the Chair of the Board of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. She became the President of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businsses of Canada.
Life
Swift studied at the University of Toronto and Carleton University in Ottawa, receiving a B.A. (Honours) in Economics in 1977 and an MA in Economics in 1980.
Swift worked at the Canadian federal government from 1976 to 1983, in the Departments of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, Industry and Communications. She was Senior Economist with the Toronto-Dominion Bank from 1983 to 1987.
Swift joined the Canadian Federation of Independent Business as Chief Economist in 1987.[1] She became President in 1995, CEO in 1997, and Chair in June 1999. For the CFIB, Swift coordinated policy issues at the federal and provincial level, and she represented CFIB to government and civil society members.[citation needed] Her primary focus during this time was to promote small businesses.[2]
From 2009 to 2014 she was the President of the International Small Business Congress, representing the interests of small- and medium-sized businesses globally.
Swift is a former president of the Empire Club, former Board member of the CD Howe Institute,[3] the Canadian Youth Business Foundation,[4] and SOS Children's Villages Canada.[5] She is a current Director of the Fraser Institute.
She has been widely published in journals, magazines and other media on issues such as free trade, finance, entrepreneurship and issues facing small business owners, particularly female entrepreneurs. She contributed the article in The Canadian Encyclopedia entitled Small Business, and wrote for Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post, among others, about small business issues. She is currently a regular columnist for The Niagara Independent www.niagaraindependent.ca. She is also a regular guest on the John Oakley show, the Alex Pierson show and the Roy Green show.
She was cited in 2003 and 2012 as one of the most powerful women in Canada by the Women's Executive Network and is a recipient of the Queen's Silver and Gold Jubilee medals. She stood down as the Chair of the Board of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. The complained that some Canadians wanted to restrict immigration eben though therer were vacant jobs that they would not do. Swift asked the rhetorical question of who was to that work.[6] She is currently the President of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers and Businsses of Canada.
References
- ^ "Catherine Swift". NICC Canada. Retrieved 2024-06-14.
- ^ McMurdy, Deirdre (February 4, 2002). "Why small is big: The CFIB's Catherine Swift defies stereotypes--just like the independent businesses she represents". Canadian Business(Vol. 75, Issue 2). Vol. 75, no. 2 – via Gale.
- ^ "Catherine Swift resigns from C.D. Howe institute over her involvement in attack ads on Trudeau". National Post, May 26, 2015
- ^ "Board of Directors « Canadian Youth Business Foundation". Cybf.ca. Archived from the original on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
- ^ "Our Board of Directors". Soschildrensvillages.ca. 2013-07-15. Retrieved 2013-08-04.
- ^ "Catherine Swift steps down as CFIB president". Wallace Immen. The Globe and Mail, June 7, 2012
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