Fuel for Canada's Engine: SMEs
We’ve heard the slogans. Now it’s time for action that helps our businesses grow in a rapidly changing and uncertain global environment.
Unleashing Innovation: Barriers, Government Support Programs, and What Works Best
Canadian firms that actively work to tackle innovation barriers, such as financial constraints or skills shortages, are significantly more likely to innovate than those that don’t act. Catherine Beaudry shows where the biggest gains come from for Canadian businesses.
Scaling Up Is Hard To Do: Financing Canadian Small Firms
What’s holding back small business growth in Canada? Canada’s small and medium-sized enterprises are vital to job creation and economic prosperity but struggle with access to financing compared to peers in other advanced economies.
Eichenbaum, Alexopoulos and Kronick – Let’s Reclaim the Billions We’re Paying for Canada’s Internal Trade Barriers
Studies suggest that removing interprovincial trade barriers alone could boost Canada’s GDP by up to 7%, adding over $160 billion to the economy. To achieve meaningful reform, experts suggest independent tribunals, stronger cost-benefit analysis, and federal-provincial deals to reduce barriers in exchange for tax incentives.
An Economic Strategy for Canada’s Next Government
Canada is facing threats, and responding to them is job one. But our next government must not lose sight of the longer-term need to reduce our dependence on the US, raise our prosperity, to defend our sovereignty, and put Canada’s debt on a sustainable path.
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