In an episode dedicated to exploring the environmental issues that affect everyone, Kenisha and Griffin start with a visit from Head, Strategic Initiatives & ESG, RBC Capital Markets, Lindsay Patrick. Lindsay reveals how banking can impact climate change, aspects of which may really surprise our audience. Lindsay takes our hosts through the various environmental programs RBC is involved in, including Tech for Nature, and offers advice on what careers are being created or enhanced because of the drive for climate change. We then catch up with Sharif Mahdy, who is the Executive Director of the Students Commission of Canada. Sharif’s organization runs the Canada We Want conference, where youth from all over Canada meet to discuss their vision for the future of Canada, which of course includes the topic of climate change. Sharif discusses what he has heard from the young people he works with about this subject, and also shares the rewards he has felt from being a long-time mentor.
In an episode dedicated to exploring the environmental issues that affect everyone, Kenisha and Griffin start with a visit from Head, Strategic Initiatives & ESG, RBC Capital Markets, Lindsay Patrick. Lindsay reveals how banking can impact climate change, aspects of which may really surprise our audience. Lindsay takes our hosts through the various environmental programs RBC is involved in, including Tech for Nature, and offers advice on what careers are being created or enhanced because of the drive for climate change. We then catch up with Sharif Mahdy, who is the Executive Director of the Students Commission of Canada. Sharif’s organization runs the Canada We Want conference, where youth from all over Canada meet to discuss their vision for the future of Canada, which of course includes the topic of climate change. Sharif discusses what he has heard from the young people he works with about this subject, and also shares the rewards he has felt from being a long-time mentor.
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Kenisha Humber
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Lindsay Patrick: The corporate sector and the financial sector really are stepping up.
Sharif Mahdy: The most exciting part of working with. Is the fact that we're wanting to create a better world for future generations.
Kenisha Humber: Welcome to In The Know. We are so glad you could join us. I'm Kisha Humber and I am one half of this podcast hosting duo.
Griffin Toplitsky: And I'm Griffin Deli. The other half, or co-host, if you will, I assume
Kenisha Humber: co-host is how [00:01:00] you describe yourself when someone asks you what you do on this podcast.
Griffin Toplitsky: It is, and I always mention how fortunate I am to be working with you.
That's
Kenisha Humber: so nice to hear that. Thank you. On today's episode,
Griffin Toplitsky: hold on. How do you describe me as my cohost? Sure. But like, uh, how, how do you describe working with me? Oh,
Kenisha Humber: I tell people you're great and you are
Griffin Toplitsky: Thank. It feels like I had to drag that compliment out of you, but thank you. That mean means a lot to me and you would say that about you.
Okay, Griffin. I'm much better now. I was just feeling like I needed an attaboy or, or a good job. I dunno why today, but thank you for that. Griffin.
Kenisha Humber: We need you to be on your game today because we are talking about climate change.
Griffin Toplitsky: Yes. I wanna try and maintain a positive lens, namely looking for solutions.
Kenisha Humber: Agreed. So our angle on the subject is going to be what we can do as individuals to make a difference. What are the career opportunities that are being created to help with the situation and make
Griffin Toplitsky: a living doing it? Fantastic. And we have just the [00:02:00] right guests to help us find those answers. I'm talking about head strategic initiatives and es.
RBC Capital Markets. Lindsay Patrick, followed by
Kenisha Humber: the Executive director of the Students Commission of Canada, Sharif Ma, who was involved in the Canada We Want Program among other programs working with today's youth, tomorrow's leaders.
Griffin Toplitsky: Sounds jam packed, but just before we get to our first guest. Let's hear from some of the attendees at the recent Canada.
We want event and hear what they had to say about the future of our planet. While I'm coming
Listener: to conferences like this where youth get a voice and we get to have our opinion heard where we are coming into a world where it hasn't been really set up for us to keep going for the next 5,000 years. Here we get to input our voice and get to say that we wanna change and we want that next 5000, 200, 300 years on this planet.
I'm in many organizations trying to inform people, also trying to get projects starting [00:03:00] and also trying just to have a, an impact. So for example, in one of the organizations that I'm working with is Ox Quebec with the delegation of future Generat. Uh, we brought a motion to the of Quebec, and the motion was, for example, to have a.
Youth committee that was going to be permanent, that they weren't going to, for example, solve it in a few years or anything, but was going to be, uh, permanent. So, and that youth committee, what their job's going to be, uh, in a few words, well, it's going to give their opinion in many subjects that are going to impact my generation and the future and generations
after that.
Kenisha Humber: It feels like there's so much uncertainty about many of. That we get into here on In the Know and climate change is no d. Many of us are very scared about the changes we're seeing around us, and so much of it makes us feel helpless. I
Griffin Toplitsky: think because the topic is so massive, we [00:04:00] sometimes can't figure out how one person or a small group of people can make a
Kenisha Humber: difference.
Agreed. I mean, how much difference does the one water bottle life throw in the recycling instead of the garbage affect? Anything? Not
Griffin Toplitsky: sure. But don't stop doing. We need
Kenisha Humber: some help and some answers Griffin. But before we get to our first guest, let's hear about a great RBC program.
Griffin Toplitsky: Tech For Nature is RBCs multi-year commitment to preserving the world's greatest wealth, our natural ecosystem RBC works with.
Partners to leverage technology and innovation capabilities to solve pressing environmental challenges, the effects of climate change connect us all. There has never been a greater need for extraordinary solutions or more opportunity for leadership, collaboration, ingenuity, and vision. Check out the RBC Tech for Nature program at rbc.com/climate for more details.[00:05:00]
Kenisha Humber: Our first guest is Lindsay Patrick. Lindsay has two decades of experience in investment banking, which has brought her to trading floors in four continents. She leads
Griffin Toplitsky: the Sustainable finance Group and with her team spearheads the provision of solutions and advice for BC's, institutional and corporate clients across a variety of areas of sustainable finance that incorporates both environmental and social perspective.
Lindsay is on this particular episode of In The Know because her official title is Managing Director and Head of Strategic Initiatives and ESG at RBC Capital Markets. I won't do the best job of describing what that is, so I'm hoping Lindsay will help me out.
Kenisha Humber: We are so pleased to welcome you to the show today, Lindsay,
Lindsay Patrick: how are you?
I'm terrific. Thanks so much for having me.
Kenisha Humber: Okay, let's dive right in because that is quite the job title you have. If you were to break it down for us, [00:06:00] how would you describe what you do? And for Griffin over there, please highlight the ESG part.
Lindsay Patrick: Sure. Thank you very much. So first I would break it down by saying I work in the capital markets segment of rbc.
So we are part of the bank that raises capital and provides advice for some of the largest institutional investors and corporate clients around the world. We are not the part of the bank that deals with mainstream branches and, and checking accounts. Uh, the second piece is, I would break it down by saying I have two jobs.
My first job is, uh, head of ESG for the investment bank, and that involves both running the sustainable finance group. Those are the products, services, solutions, and advice we deliver into our client base with an environmental, social, and governance. The last piece, which is probably not a topic for conversation today, Griffin Anisha, but I also lead strategy for our capital markets or investment bank, and I think that's really important because I see a lot of [00:07:00] connectivity between how we're trying to advance corporate sustainability and ESG issues alongside with our broader business and performance.
Griffin Toplitsky: So if I were to go into an RBC bank and say like, Hey, I want to get into investing. How can I spend this money? Uh, would you be dealing then with the companies that I would be potentially investing
Lindsay Patrick: with? Sure. So what we would do, um, you know, this is the, the benefits of being part of such a large and great financial institution like rbc.
If you were to go into a branch, the branch advisor, Would make you aware of the products and solutions we have for you, Griffin, as an individual consumer. Maybe it's a climate oriented fund, maybe it's a fund that is more focused on social issues. For example, what we would be doing is we would be providing, so there's a fund management group within RBC that creates and manufactures those funds and chooses that selection of those companies, which go in the fund that you're buying.
What we do is we work with the [00:08:00] companies directly. We provide them with advice on their own sustainability objectives. We help them measure and manage their emissions footprints, for example, and those can be now tied into broader financial products like green bonds or sustainability link loans that are incorporating things other than just pure financial metrics into the financial structures.
The.
Griffin Toplitsky: So it would be more me as an investor, I'm like, oh yes, this company has this, you know, growth profile, but also like I can look at a company like, oh, I like what they're doing with their environment here, laid out in the profile. That's a company I'm interested in investing in. You're the one who's doing that evaluation for rbc.
We are
Lindsay Patrick: part of the service that we provide to those companies when we provide strategic advice to companies, when we help them access capital markets, is to increasingly integrate that corporate sustainability advice. So the services we provide are not just truly financial [00:09:00] or financial market based anymore.
They are incorporating broader environmental, social, and governance perspective. And that's new and different. If you were to look back 20 years ago, you know, they would be oftentimes, if a company was making an acquisition, they would wonder if there are any environmental liabilities, but they wouldn't be saying, Hey, is the acquisition of this company actually going to help me achieve the climate goals I've set for myself?
And that's what's
Griffin Toplitsky: changed. That's amazing. So to get a career like this, would you want to focus on like a degree in, like something like commerce or would you want to go the other route, like the environmental side, like it, it feels like you could come into this from so many different ways.
Lindsay Patrick: You can come into it so many different ways.
Griffin. It's a, it's a, it's a great question. So we built, The sustainable finance team within capital markets was a big idea I had four years ago. I saw that our clients were needing this advice and I saw that as their financial partner. We were in a good [00:10:00] position to give it to them, and we're also a convener when you think about bringing corporate clients together with institutional investors.
So I was really fortunate to build an entire team from scratch within an investment bank, which is a new and exciting proposition, frankly. And how I approached it was I wanted to bring skill sets from a variety of different perspectives. So I came from a hardcore investment banking, 20 plus years in, in capital markets across both the market side of the business and investment banking.
The first person I hired was a colleague from the other part of the bank and our corporate sustainability team who. Terrific, uh, sustainability experience working with technology providers, corporate real estate, and had that very fundamental corporate sustainability experience. Then we brought on a policy advisor.
Somebody that had worked in government, had terrific thought leadership skills, very good communication skills, and understood just where the direction of the regulatory framework was. So [00:11:00] I think Griffin, to answer your question, we have built our team based on a variety of different skill sets. I think you can enter this lens through policy, legal law.
I think you can enter it through risk. I think you can enter it through commerce. I think you can enter it through environmental engineering. Uh, I think you can enter it through research. There's so many different avenues and that's one of the reasons I think it's, uh, an exciting place to be. Right.
Griffin Toplitsky: Can you share some of the positive initiatives you've seen through your role at the bank?
Lindsay Patrick: So let's sit back and think of a bank. Often when you think of a bank, you think, what does a bank have to do about climate change? We don't make anything, so we're not an industrial company. So there are two things we can do as a bank. The first is to make sure that we are playing our part in growing the renewable.
Ecosystem. So we have done two renewable power purchase agreements as RBC to make sure that we are playing our role growing the renewable energy ecosystem. And that was, uh, a solar [00:12:00] farm the size of two football fields in no Northern Alberta and a wind farm in southern Alberta. So we facilitated through our PPA or our power purchase agreement, the construction of those two, uh, facilit.
So that's one. But arguably our biggest impact is with our clients. And it can be everyday clients such as you and I helping understand, you know, what we're procuring, where we're spending our money, and what are the climate impacts associated with those? Giving you the data you need to make more informed.
Decisions around climate all the way to our largest, you can imagine some of the largest companies of the world advising them on how they're setting targets to be embedded within financial structures that we can then take to market. So there are, uh, variety of different ways we can have an impact. And I think, you know what probably makes me most optimistic?
When I think about climate change and where the world is going is the corporate sector and the [00:13:00] financial sector really are stepping up. We understand that we have a role to play, but if everybody can control what they can today, take actions, bring in this framework of looking at what are the climate impacts of the actions I'm taking today.
How can I address some of those? And most of the times, or a lot of time, what we're finding right now, you can address those in a way that is actually creating financial value at the same time as creating environmental value.
Griffin Toplitsky: That's great. What other initiatives have you seen RBC take as a company to help their like ESG standards?
So
Lindsay Patrick: probably our biggest initiative is one that came out of our group where we set to what we've called a sustainable finance target. So sustainable finance is probably worth just setting back and say, what is sustainable finance? But sustainable, we define sustainability of inclusive of environmental.
And or social benefits. So really important to know it's not just climate change. Sustainable can include, [00:14:00] for example, affordable housing. It can include access to education. Some of the social elements in addition to climate, which can, in addition to going beyond just emissions reductions, can include access to clean water, waste remediation, a variety of factors too.
So it's a very, very broad definition, but we measured the capital. That either we are providing as a bank, that we are enabling through some of our activities that are aligned to those outcomes, either that we know the money is going through what we call a use of proceeds and going directly to those areas that have been set out to be defined as sustainable.
So RBC, when we first started, the Sustainable Finance Group set a hundred billion sustainable financing target in April 20. It was very clear, less than two years in that we had already hit that target, just the magnitude and the breadth of the activities that we were undertaking, so we increased it to 500 [00:15:00] billion by 2025.
This has really served as a north star for our teams to measure and monitor the day-to-day. Financial activities that we're doing that we know are aligning to these environmental and social outcomes. We measure a by sort of individual business and on a quarterly basis, it really holds our teams accountable for, uh, what they're doing in this area.
So our sustainable finance target Griffin, would be another example of, I would say a North Star initiative where, um, we're really trying to mobilize capital from our clients and from the bank towards these outcomes.
Kenisha Humber: Lindsey, thank you so much for making time for us.
Lindsay Patrick: Thank you.
Griffin Toplitsky: After that interview, I gotta say, I think the best way to describe Lindsay is inspir.
And I think the best way to describe our next guest is to call him dynamic, pretty
Kenisha Humber: accurate. He has so many different interests and is driven to help in so many ways [00:16:00] beyond just the work he's paid to do.
Griffin Toplitsky: Sharif MA is coming up next, but first, a word about a commitment from rbc.
Kenisha Humber: Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our age.
That's why RBC is committed to accelerating clean economic growth and supporting their clients in the transition to net zero through the rbc. At Blueprint RBC is working with clients and communities to contribute to a healthier planet and a more prosperous and inclusive economy for the 21st century.
To learn more about RBCs role in building a sustainable future, visit rbc.com/climate.
Griffin Toplitsky: Our next guest has been working closely with Canada. To ensure that young people are valued heard, and their ideas for improving themselves, the lives of their peers and communities are put into action.
Kenisha Humber: He works with the Students Commission of Canada on various issues facing today's youth, including of course,
Griffin Toplitsky: climate change.
Please say hello to the executive director of the [00:17:00] Students Commission of Canada Sharif. Sharif, thank you for being here. Thank you
Sharif Mahdy: for having
Lindsay Patrick: me.
Kenisha Humber: So can you please tell us about the Students Commission of Canada and your role in that charitable organization?
Sharif Mahdy: Yeah, so the Students Commission of Canada is a national charitable organization that is really focused on ensuring that young people's voices are heard and valued, and we're really focused on the process of meaningful youth engagement.
So making sure. That the process of having young people involved in the decisions that affect them occurs on a number of different topics. So we're kind of agnostic about the topic itself, and we like to kind of apply the process of meaningful use engagement to the topics that young people bring forward.
And so topics that we explore in the organization are in the environment in climate change. We're also very focused on mental health and wellness, physical health, the education system, social justice, anti-racism, truth and reconciliation. Uh, you name it, we're exploring it because that's what [00:18:00] young people are bringing forward to discuss.
And you're
Griffin Toplitsky: also involved in an event called Canada. We want, can you tell us more? Yeah,
Sharif Mahdy: so the Students Commission of Canada was born at a national youth conference in 1991. It was a group of students who came together from across the country to improve outcomes for, for Canadian children and youth across the, across the country, and really, uh, the, they could generate at 270 recommendations.
With the final recommendation being to commission an organization for students to have their voices heard and valued. So ever since then, we have been hosting national use conferences with young people from coast to coast to coast to explore topics that are of concern to them so that they can improve the wellbeing of, of their communities and of youth in their communi.
Over the years, the name of the conference has changed. In the first year it was called the Students Commission of Canada conference. Uh, but in the past five years, it's uh, young people came forward and said, we really need a [00:19:00] bold statement of what we want for this country. So let's call this conference the Canada We Want Conference.
What
Kenisha Humber: has been the result of Canada we want thus far?
Sharif Mahdy: That's a good question. . I'm like, which one should I pick? Right. Really good youth engagement results in change occurring on three. For myself as an individual, for my peers, and for the communities and systems that I interact with. So when we're doing a Canada We Want conference, we're really looking to influence and create results that impact those three levels.
So we know from the research that we've done with our research partners that on an individual level, young people leave the conference feeling more sure of themselves. Prepared for the workforce, more connected to others across the country. We also know that the, the experience of diversity results in them gaining a deeper understanding of difference and how difference is of value rather than something that's negative, if that makes sense.
Uh, we also see really great, um, our [00:20:00] community partners. Huge improvements in terms of young people's participation in their programs and in influencing how they deliver their programs and how they, uh, structure their community to respond to young people's voices and needs. And then on a system level, all of the voice that's generated is organized into different types of products for different key decision makers who then use that information to influence their.
So in 2018, the Canada, we Won conference. The entire report was structured on influencing Canada's, uh, first ever use policy. And that conference, those conference delegates helped to write parts of that policy as a result of that work. And now on a federal level, that youth policy is guiding the decisions of the government in terms of.
They're prioritizing and making sure that their decisions are grounded in what young people are saying. And
Griffin Toplitsky: through talking to youth and topics that they're concerned about, has anything surprised you?
Sharif Mahdy: I [00:21:00] think what, what really, really continues to surprise me is the determination and persistence that exists amongst young people and their ability to push through all of the challenges that are occurring in their communities and.
Leave the conference experience, seeing those challenges as opportunities to leave a better world and to leave a legacy. Uh, we do a lot of research with Dr. Heather Lawford, who's the Canada Research Chair, uh, in positive youth development, and she's really focused on this concept of youth generativity.
And generativity is, is a fancy word for leaving a legacy for future generations. And most research up until now has focused on the fact. Older adult. So those who are pre-retirement, post-retirement stage of life are the most generative people. They're the ones who are what I, you know, I've lived my life.
Now how am I gonna live? Leave a better world? When actually our research is starting to show that young people are the most [00:22:00] highly generative people. They are wanting to leave a legacy for future generations, and they're wanting to improve the world. Now. They're not wanting to wait for that to happen.
So, You look at all of the major changes that have happened in our society and there's a clear direct link to very strong and powerful use movements, pushing those changes forward, and young people pushing older generations to kind of say, we're not waiting until we're your age for these changes to start to happen.
You know, I, I think about truth and reconciliation and how young people in Canada are not interested in waiting, you know, another seven generations for the relationships to be strengthened between indigenous and non-indigenous people. I look at the young people's. Persistence in terms of the environment and climate change movement.
And now, you know, really starting to see that persistence pay off in terms of really tangible, you know, pushing governments to be more than just setting targets, but actually to, to have action associated [00:23:00] with those targets. And, and you can see a link between that persistence and push and those social movements and those changes happening.
I think that is, for me, the most exciting part of working with youth is the fact that they, they're wanting to create a better world for future generations.
Griffin Toplitsky: The theme of this episode is climate change. Mm-hmm. . So can you highlight what the s e C has been doing in that area? So
Sharif Mahdy: we've been really focused on supporting young people across the country to share their young people to share their experiences and impacts of climate change with one another.
So one of the key focuses that we. It's an organization and the second largest geograph country in the, in the world is to really connect young people from coast to coast to coast, and everywhere in between. And as I'm sure you all know, like the country is experiencing climate change in different ways.
and there are certain regions of the country that benefit [00:24:00] from the use of carbon, you know, generating economy, right? And so we've been really kind of focused on bridging young people's experiences from the various regions and of the country to kind of come to a place of. Really deep, deep understanding on what's going on for different communities.
So an example, uh, of a project that we did through the Canada we want was some virtual reality engagement where young people from the north filmed their experiences of climate change through VR cameras, and then we shared those VR cameras with use in the South and they were able to experience. It's actually kind of crazy when you have these VR cameras on, you know, it's kind of scary.
You feel like you're really there, but they were able to kind of see like the, there would be like almost a narration of like, this is what's changed, you know, in my community, like the melt is happening sooner or I, we can't get on the, you know, there's only so much time we can get on the land with, with what's happened, with what's happening.
[00:25:00] Our pi, right? So. I'm trying to highlight the experiences of those young people whose stories might not get told in our traditional media spaces, has been, uh, you know, has been a key focus of ours. And then the second part of that has been to try to bridge the different experiences that are occurring and to have saved spaces for those conversations to occur.
So, for example, You know, we have had a number of young people from different regions that are really dependent on their resource economy come forward and share what the impacts would be for them to, you know, to lose that resource, right? And the supports that they're needing in order for their community to make the transitions.
And that's been an important conversation for us to have as well. I'd say the third point to make is that we've done a lot of research for different environmental. Youth movements and, and, and governments that are focused on environment climate change to really highlight who makes [00:26:00] up those movements and how those movements can be integrated in the decision making processes of policies and, uh, policies surrounding climate change.
And some of our research has pointed to the fact that. In order to really generate a really strong youth movement around climate change, we actually need to address other systemic issues. So, if I experience poverty or if I'm racialized, or if I am part of a community that's, uh, been systematically excluded by systems, I'm less likely to be involved in an environmental youth movement because I'm more concerned about surviving and day to day than what the future's gonna be.
You know, 20, 10, 30, a hundred years from now. So a key question for us has also been how can we make environmental use movements more inclusive, and how can we share that the impact of climate change today is affecting you, even if you're not able to kind of imagine where the world's gonna be in [00:27:00] 80 years because you're trying to put food on your table.
So that has been, uh, a key focus of ours as well, is to make sure that the youth movements are inclusive of those who will probably be the most disproportionately affected by the changes of climate change and have those voices be bought into the process
Kenisha Humber: as well. I'd really love to thank you for being here, um, for sharing what you have with us and for sharing your time.
All right.
Sharif Mahdy: Take care everyone.
Griffin Toplitsky: I'm feeling better educated about climate change after this episode, as well as more inspired by the people who are out there actively working to make changes. It's such a
Kenisha Humber: vast topic that you really have to narrow it down to what you can do as an individual to start than who you can partner with to create a bigger impact, but also support to move in a positive direction with the help of
Griffin Toplitsky: others.
I always hope that our episodes really land with our listen. But this one more than others. I hope that we hit the right mark and brought that level of inspiration to everyone to get involved. It's [00:28:00] certainly affected me.
Thanks as always for listening to In the Know We're your host,
Kenisha Humber: Kisha, Humber, and Griffin to Blisky.
Griffin Toplitsky: Our thanks to Head Strategic Initiatives and esg, RBC Capital Markets, the incredible Lindsay Patrick for being on this.
Kenisha Humber: And thank you to Sharre Ma, a very interesting person that we were very fortunate to have with us today.
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