Kelly Lamrock on Governance Flaws: McKenna Centre Distinguished Speaker Series

7PM
Kinsella Auditorium

New Brunswick Child, Youth and Seniors' Advocate Kelly Lamrock will speak at a public lecture at St. Thomas University about the governance flaws that negatively impact social programs in the province.

His talk, “How it All Broke” is part of the McKenna Centre for Communications and Public Policy Distinguished Speaker Series. It will be held on Thursday, November 21 at 7PM in the Kinsella Auditorium in McCain Hall.

He recently released a report titled, “How It All Broke,” identifying five central governance flaws from the 1990s that negatively impact social programs and deprive New Brunswickers of service. During his talk, he will present his report, covering the following topics:

• Governance Flaw #1 - The Lack of Effective Human Resource planning
• Governance Flaw #2- The Curious Detachment of the Budgeting Process from Reality
• Governance Flaw #3- Following Rules instead of Getting Results
• Governance Flaw #4 -Little Data, Less Analysis, No Follow-up
• Governance Flaw #5- Funding the Crisis, Starving the Solutions

Kelly Lamrock has held a variety of valuable roles before his appointment as NB Child, Youth and Seniors’ Advocate. He has worked as a lawyer, was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly, taught as a professor and worked with First Nations and international NGO’s. His experience includes positions with the New Brunswick Healthcare Association and St. Thomas University as well as appointments as Opposition House Leader, Minister of Education, Minister of Social Development, Minister of Justice and Attorney-General. Internationally, Mr. Lamrock served as Chair of CONFEMEN, the education ministers’ roundtable of La Francophonie and served as Honorary Principal of New Brunswick-supported schools in Beijing and Shenzhen, China. Kelly has also served as Executive Director of the Assembly of First Nations Chiefs in New Brunswick and worked in Tunisia as Parliamentary Affairs Director for the National Democratic Institute. In 2021, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the Labour and Employment Board of New Brunswick and he began his mandate as New Brunswick’s Child, Youth and Seniors’ Advocate in February 2022.