b'Message from the ChairMessage de la prsidente du ConseilAnn StaffordO h, to have a crystal ball to see into the future. Normally,C omme jaimerais avoir une boule de cristal ! industry trends and challenges tend to overlap yearNormalement, les dfis de lindustrie ont tendanceover year, at least for a time. The advent of COVID- revenir danne en anne, mais plus avec la COVID-19. 19, however, has changed all that. In fact, most of theNos dfis dil y a un an sont aujourdhui drisoires en challenges we were battling just one year ago now palecomparaison de la pandmie mondiale. in comparison to the struggles we face in a global pandemic that has shut down businesses, schools and even parks.Si nous examinons les tendances de lanne passe, nous constatons quil sagit dune liste familire qui comprend tout, If we take a look at the past years trends and talking points, itsdes perturbateurs de lindustriela diversit etlinclusion. a familiar list that includes everything from industry disruptorsAujourdhui, toutefois, les conversations ont tendancese porter to diversity and inclusion. Fast-forward to today, and oursur le coronavirus. industry conversations all tend to focus on the Coronavirus and its consequences.Si les thmes de discussion de lanne prcdente sont toujours pertinents, ils sont maintenant examins dans un nouveau While the previous years talking points still have relevance, theycontexte. En ce qui concerne limmigration, par exemple, nous are now examined in the context of a pandemic world. In terms ofdiscutons de limmigration numrique, cestdire de lenregis-immigration, for instance, we are discussing digital immigration,trement en ligne, du visa lectronique et de lapprobation plus i.e., eRegistration, eVisa, and quicker visa approvals for essentialrapide des visas pour les travailleurs essentiels. La cyberscurit et workers. Cybersecurity and general data protection regulationla rglementation gnrale en matire de protection des donnes (GDPR) have become important areas of discussion as well, as(RGPD) sont galement devenues des sujets importants, tout have privacy restrictions that prevent the use and sharing of infor- comme les restrictions en matire de vie prive. mation necessary for technology-driven workarounds. Nous avons galement commencexaminer la meilleure faon Weve also started to examine how best to design the employeede concevoir lexprience des employs, en termes de relocalisation experience, in terms of an end-to-end relocation, in a post- de bout en bout, dans un monde post-pandmique. Et notre intrt pandemic world. And our interest in PPI (personal privatepour les IPP (informations personnelles prives) sest transform information) has morphed into an interest in sourcing more PPEen un intrt pour lapprovisionnement en EPI (quipements de (personal protective equipment).protection individuelle). The speed and magnitude of the pandemics negative impact onLa vitesse et limpact de la pandmie ont t sans prcdent. Ce the labour market has been unprecedented. This massive shift ischangement massif oblige les entreprisesrepenser pratiquement forcing companies to rethink virtually every aspect of their oper- tous les aspects de leurs activits.la rare exception des services ationsfrom where they operate to how they source materials.essentiels, la pandmie a entran de profondes mesures de rduc-With the rare exception of essential services, the pandemic hastion des cots. resulted in deep cost-cutting and cost-avoidance measures for many companies.Mais comme le dit le proverbe,La ncessit est souvent la mre de linvention . Jai appriscuisiner. Pas trs bien, mais jai russi But as the saying goes, Necessity is often the mother of inven-prparer un gteau chez moi sans aller dans une boulangerie. tion. Ive learned to bake. Not well, but I managed to have a cakeJai mme dpoussir un moule que javais reu en cadeau de in my home without having to go to a bakery to get it. I evenmariage il y a des annes (srieusement) et je lai utilis pour la dusted off a baking pan I received years back as a honeymoon gifttoute premire fois. (seriously) and used it for the very first time. Si mes exploits inattendus dans le domaine de la boulangerie-ptis-While my unexpected baking exploits may represent a strangeserie reprsentent peut-tre une trange transition, ils soulvent un segue, they raise an important point: the pandemic will no doubtpoint important : la pandmie va sans doute susciter des approches spark new and different approaches to mobility. And, hopefully,nouvelles et diffrentes de la mobilit. Et, esprons-le, avec un with much better success than my recent cake attempt. Whatbien meilleur succs que ma rcente tentative de gteau. La forme form that something new and different will take has yet to berestedterminer. Il pourrait sagir de concevoir un addendum determined. It could be designing an addendum to policy that la politique qui parle des relocalisations pendant une pandmie, talks about relocations during a pandemic, reviewing who movesde revoir qui dmnage et o, de dfinir les relocalisationsessen-and where, defining essential relocations, or implementing fewertielles , ou de mettre en place moins daffectationscourt terme et short-term and more long-term assignments to reduce travel.pluslong terme pour rduire les dplacements. One thing we know for sure is that we will all come out of thisUne chose dont nous sommes srs, cest que nous allons tous en changed. Going forward, our personal lives, the business environ- sortir changs.lavenir, notre vie personnelle, lenvironnement 6PERSPECTIVES Summer 2020'