Brian Kingston is the Vice-President Policy, International and Fiscal Issues at the Business Council of Canada, an organization that brings business leaders together to shape public policy in the interests of a stronger Canada and a better world. Founded in 1976, the Business Council is a non-profit, non-partisan organization composed of the chief executives of Canada’s leading enterprises, representing companies from every region and sector of the economy. Its 150 member companies employ 1.7 million Canadians.