Turning back the clock to 1965 is the secret to automotive trade negotiations with the United States. Former Toyota executive Stephen Beatty and the C.D. Howe Institute’s Senior Vice-President Daniel Schwanen explain how the Auto Pact should be a template for the future.

Canada is largely following our Trade Crisis Working Group’s strategy. But how do we implement massive changes to the country’s interprovincial trade, expand globally, and improve productivity while negotiating with a president who doesn’t respect his own trade agreements? Co-chairs Mitzie Hunter and Jason Kenney explain.

The US isn’t the only issue Canada’s Finance Minister will have to address. Bill Robson and Don Drummond advise how we can balance the books – lowering the debt ratio and restoring fiscal surpluses by 2028.

Solving Canada’s multiple housing crises requires thinking big – about smaller cities. Vancouver School of Economics professor Paul Beaudry and C.D. Howe Institute Vice President of Economic Analysis Jeremy Kronick discuss why focusing on growing our smaller urban centres into larger cities will help ease the pain nationwide.

We’re saying “bye America, buy Canada” amid Donald Trump’s trade war. But even before he returned to office, there has been a growing drumbeat to turn pensions into a policy tool. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan guru Claude Lamoureux joins host Michael Hainsworth to discuss why forcing a “buy Canadian” strategy won’t work long-term.

Torontonians might be shocked to learn their back-to-back property tax increases come at a time when city hall has more than a billion dollars in the bank. The C.D. Howe Institute’s Bill Robson and Nick Dahir tell host Michael Hainsworth that a lack of transparency is keeping politicians from understanding the true cost of running […]