From: Colin BusbyTo: Parliament watchersDate: September 12, 2025Re: The Three Big Challenges Facing Parliament Next Week Three big policy issues will be the focal point when Parliament resumes next week. The government faces a challenging balancing act as it works against the backdrop of a weakening economy – the unemployment rate is at 7.1 percent […]
Published in the Financial Post. The Carney government says it will spend less, invest more and make government more efficient. Its bold, new defence commitments mean that cuts to operational spending will need to be much wider and deeper than planned. Nowhere is the need to improve efficiency more obvious than at Canada Post. The […]
From: Tasnim FarihaTo: Housing watchersDate: July 30, 2025Re: We’re Still Losing the Affordable Housing War Canada’s housing supply gap is widening, not narrowing. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which first sounded the alarm in 2022, has now quietly moved away from its 2030 target for restoring housing affordability. The agency has shifted to […]
From: Sebastien BetermierTo: Infrastructure watchersDate: July 10, 2025Re: Bridging Canada’s infrastructure gap – how do we finance it? Pursuing economic prosperity by transitioning Canada to a clean, resilient, and digital economy is going to require a catalogue of infrastructure projects such as battery energy storage, green building retrofits, ports and data centres, and is going […]
Canada has committed to a major increase in defence spending, the biggest boost since the Second World War, costing $150 billion dollars a year. Jamies Pierlot, a C.D. Howe Institute policy council member discusses how this will reshape Canada’s relationship with the US.
Canada needs new infrastructure, but there’s a catch-22: developers can’t move forward without financing, and investors are wary of early-stage risk. So how do we break the cycle? Banking on the United States is risky, which is why McGill’s Sebastien Betermier tells us that Canada’s infrastructure banks need a sense of direction from Ottawa as […]
From: Benjamin Dachis and Daniel LangTo: The Hon. François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue and The Hon. Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural ResourcesDate: June 26, 2025Re: Tax Changes Needed to Unlock Private Capital for Ontario’s Electricity Grid Canada’s net-zero targets demand massive electricity distribution infrastructure investment. Ontario’s municipal financing structure – […]
From: Glen HodgsonTo: Economy Watchers Date: June 23, 2025Re: An Indigenous Development Bank Would Speed Reconciliation and Major Projects The Carney government has committed to accelerating and strengthening investment across the economy and greater investment in energy and other natural resource development is central to this commitment. The recent Speech from the Throne indicated the […]
Published in the The Hill Times The Carney government has committed to accelerating and strengthening investment across the economy as part of its plan to boost domestic sources of economic growth, and reduce Canadian economic dependence on the United States. Greater investment in energy and other natural resource development is central to this commitment. The […]
With just a few clicks, you can check bank balances, track investments, or even monitor fitness data in real time. But when it comes to health information, we remain stuck in the past.
Cat: Public Governance and AccountabilityFrom: Michael WernickTo: Public service observers Date: June 3, 2025 Re: Canada Post isn’t the only federal institution in need of an overhaul The Canada Post labour dispute has resurfaced some old and unresolved issues related to the Crown corporation’s failure to keep up in a fast-changing environment for delivery services. Whether they are addressed […]
Fast vs. Slow: How Different Immigration Rates Can Impact Canada’s Economic Challenges and Regional Disparities This report examines how different permanent immigration rates – and policies aimed at influencing where newcomers settle – affect Canada’s population growth, regional balance, and long-term economic challenges. It models six scenarios from 2021 to 2046 to project the impacts […]
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From: Colin BusbyTo: Parliament watchersDate: September 12, 2025Re: The Three Big Challenges Facing Parliament Next Week Three big policy issues will be the focal point when Parliament resumes next week. The government faces a challenging balancing act as it works against the backdrop of a weakening economy – the unemployment rate is at 7.1 percent […] 
Published in the Financial Post. The Carney government says it will spend less, invest more and make government more efficient. Its bold, new defence commitments mean that cuts to operational spending will need to be much wider and deeper than planned. Nowhere is the need to improve efficiency more obvious than at Canada Post. The […] 
From: Tasnim FarihaTo: Housing watchersDate: July 30, 2025Re: We’re Still Losing the Affordable Housing War Canada’s housing supply gap is widening, not narrowing. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which first sounded the alarm in 2022, has now quietly moved away from its 2030 target for restoring housing affordability. The agency has shifted to […] 
From: Sebastien BetermierTo: Infrastructure watchersDate: July 10, 2025Re: Bridging Canada’s infrastructure gap – how do we finance it? Pursuing economic prosperity by transitioning Canada to a clean, resilient, and digital economy is going to require a catalogue of infrastructure projects such as battery energy storage, green building retrofits, ports and data centres, and is going […] 
From: Benjamin Dachis and Daniel LangTo: The Hon. François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue and The Hon. Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural ResourcesDate: June 26, 2025Re: Tax Changes Needed to Unlock Private Capital for Ontario’s Electricity Grid Canada’s net-zero targets demand massive electricity distribution infrastructure investment. Ontario’s municipal financing structure – […] 
From: Glen HodgsonTo: Economy Watchers Date: June 23, 2025Re: An Indigenous Development Bank Would Speed Reconciliation and Major Projects The Carney government has committed to accelerating and strengthening investment across the economy and greater investment in energy and other natural resource development is central to this commitment. The recent Speech from the Throne indicated the […] 
Published in the The Hill Times The Carney government has committed to accelerating and strengthening investment across the economy as part of its plan to boost domestic sources of economic growth, and reduce Canadian economic dependence on the United States. Greater investment in energy and other natural resource development is central to this commitment. The […] 
With just a few clicks, you can check bank balances, track investments, or even monitor fitness data in real time. But when it comes to health information, we remain stuck in the past. 
Cat: Public Governance and AccountabilityFrom: Michael WernickTo: Public service observers Date: June 3, 2025 Re: Canada Post isn’t the only federal institution in need of an overhaul The Canada Post labour dispute has resurfaced some old and unresolved issues related to the Crown corporation’s failure to keep up in a fast-changing environment for delivery services. Whether they are addressed […] 
Fast vs. Slow: How Different Immigration Rates Can Impact Canada’s Economic Challenges and Regional Disparities This report examines how different permanent immigration rates – and policies aimed at influencing where newcomers settle – affect Canada’s population growth, regional balance, and long-term economic challenges. It models six scenarios from 2021 to 2046 to project the impacts […]