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- The Brief | March 13, 2025
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The Brief | March 13, 2025
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Widely considered to be Canada’s most influential think tank, the C.D. Howe Institute is a source of trusted policy intelligence, distinguished by research that is nonpartisan, evidence-based and subject to definitive expert review.
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Pierre Lortie
Senior Business Advisor, Dentons Canada LLP; Director, ECN Capital Corp.

Edmund Clark
Former Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group

Mark Zelmer
Fellow-in-Residence
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Thorsten Koeppl
Professor and RBC Fellow, Queen's University and 2015 Research Auditor, C.D. Howe Institute

Elyse Allan
Former President & CEO, GE Canada

Thomas A. Wilson
Senior Advisor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Rt. Hon. Paul Martin
Former Prime Minister of Canada

Hélène Desmarais, C.M.
Chairman & CEO, Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal

Kathleen Taylor
Chair of the Board, RBC

Paul Masson

Gordon Thiessen
Senior Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute

Arthur Sweetman
Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources, McMaster University

The Honourable Jason Kenney PC, ECA
Senior Fellow

Steve Orsini
Principal, Policy Driven Strategies

Peter Howitt
Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University
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