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Canada Growth Summit 2025: Unleashing Canada’s potential in turbulent times

2025-04-24 07:30:00 2025-04-24 14:30:00 America/Los_Angeles Canada Growth Summit 2025: Unleashing Canada’s potential in turbulent times Fairmont Royal York ,100 Front Street West, Toronto, ON M5J 1E3

Thursday April 24, 2025
7:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Fairmont Royal York
100 Front Street West, Toronto, ON M5J 1E3

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About the Event

The United States’ unprecedented economic assault has brought Canada’s many pressing challenges, both internal and geopolitical, into sharp relief. A united, action-oriented Canada is our only defence. At Growth Summit 2025, we’ll focus on how to urgently unlock Canada’s economic growth potential to safeguard our country’s global competitiveness — and our own standard of living.

The day begins with the annual Indigenous breakfast, discussing Indigenous ownership and the path to inclusive growth, featuring energy, mining and natural resource partnership projects underway. We will explore successful road maps and link between Indigenous involvement and project certainty. Indigenous-led projects are essential to the country’s commitment to reconciliation and will drive up productivity in critical sector ensuring a better timeline for large projects.

From there, we will move to a conversation with experts on the current state of the global economy. Geopolitical uncertainties and volatile trade dynamics have created a challenging economic environment with direct implications for Canada’s economic growth, standard of living and global competitiveness. How can we find our way in this new paradigm and re-shape our economic future?

Our second panel of the day discusses the trade war and the policy uncertainties that will have profound and long-term effects on the Canadian economy. Canada’s next government will need to hit the ground running with an action plan to safeguard Canada’s economy. What are the implications for Canada and how should we navigate this period?

With many new challenges and existential threats facing our investment climate, come to hear what our global experts are saying about how we can accelerate investment to spur innovation and unleash our economic potential.

Our agenda includes:

  • An Indigenous breakfast to discuss Indigenous ownership and inclusive growth, featuring a panel about energy, mining and natural resource partnership projects;
  • A discussion about how Canada can re-shape its economic future;
  • An expert panel on how Canada can accelerate investment to drive economic growth and create a sustainable, prosperous future;
  • A look at how Canada’s next government should navigate this period;
  • A compelling examples-led discussion about how Canadian companies are using AI to drive innovation and growth;
  • A panel of clerks and cabinet secretaries on how to increase trade across the country; and
  • An analytics-led discussion about how to capture the public’s imagination on economic issues and build on the current surge in national pride.

Canada Growth Summit has become a must attend event on the country’s economic policy calendar, where the Public Policy Forum (PPF) convenes the country’s leading policymakers, experts, industry executives and civil society to discuss the most pressing policy challenges.

Past Summits have covered Canada’s increased role in a world looking for stable, secure, dependable allies; how to achieve a path to a net-zero economy, sustainable and inclusive growth, innovation and trade, the state of our airports in a post-pandemic world, and how to champion Canadian innovation in the 21st century. They have featured speakers such as Dominic Barton, Courtney Billington, Simon Kennedy, H.E. Nadia Theodore, Hon. François-Philippe Champagne, Hon. Chrystia Freeland, H.E. Ailish Campbell, Dr. Mike DeGagné and Deborah Flint.

 

Relive the 2024 Growth Summit:

 

Michael Serapio
JP Gladu
Doug Ford
Avery Shenfeld
Jacomo Corbo
Louise Blais
Sarah Thiele
Todd Deaville
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Gitane De Silva
Steve Verheul
Cynthia Leach
Marc-André Blanchard
Matthew Mendelsohn
Krista Quinlan
Michael McAdoo
Peter Bak
Nicole Janssen
Peter Tertzakian
Hannah Thibedeau
Michele Harradence
Clifford Young
The Hon. Lisa Raitt
Ken Chatoor
Andrew Thomson
Inez Jabalpurwala
Trevor Tombe
Brett House
André Beaulieu
Luiza Ch. Savage
Stephen Lucas

For any questions, please contact Kaitlyn Bulger from Green Living, kbulger@green-living.ca