The Action Canada Fellowship is Canada’s top accelerator for emerging leaders interested in public policy. The program aims to deepen their understanding of the country and policy choices for the future. Since 2003, the fellowship program has been equipping Canadians from across the country, sectors, and backgrounds with the leadership and policy-making skills and tools so that they can be more impactful leaders.

The application period for 2023/24 is open until March 19.

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Learn more about the Fellowship and the impressive alumni network by visiting the Action Canada website.

Current and recent cohorts

2022/23

Read about the exceptional emerging leaders making up the 2022/23 Action Canada Fellows.

Watch the 2022 Action Canada on Reconciliation & Public Policy featuring Yellowknife City Councillor Stacie Smith and and Government of Northwest Territories Assistant Deputy Minister Kyla Kakfwi-Scott. They spoke about the role of women as leaders of reconciliation during the Action Canada study tour to Yukon in September 2022. 

Learn more about the Fellows’ experiences so far: 

• Watch Dr. Veronica Fynn-Bruey ’22 share her experience in the Magdalen Islands 
• Read Scott Stirrett ’22’s account of the trip and take a look at the pictures we captured 

2021/22

Learn about the 2021/22 Action Canada Fellows here.

Watch them share about their experiences: 

• Fellow Kaitlynne Lowe ’21 welcomed Fellows to Atlantic Canada in this vlog about the trip to New Brunswick. 
• Action Canada was welcomed back to Yukon as Fellow Sandra Péloquin ’21 detailed in this vlog. 
• Former Action Canada mentor and Indspire President and CEO Mike DeGagné provided the first Annual Action Canada Lecture on Reconciliation and Public Policy 2021. 

Read their reports: 

• Report: Settling the Unsettled: Closing the Urban-Rural Immigration Gap in Canada 
• Report: We All Live on Indigenous Land: Building Trusted Relationships in Canada’s Immigration Process 
• Report: Immigration in the Era of Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada 

2020/21

The 2020/21 Action Canada Fellowship came to an end in March 2021. Read the Fellows’ reports and vlogs:

• Report: Place-Based Policy Options for Entrepreneurship in a Post-COVID Canada 
• Report: A Platform Economy Strategy for Canada: Supporting place-based governance for a more resilient and inclusive post-COVID Future of Work 
• Report: Growing the Next Crop of Canadian Farmers 
• Jean-Sébastien Blais shared his view from Whitehorse during the virtual study tour in September. 
• Gabby Bouchard’s vlog reflections on the July study tour.