PPF in the News
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
Laurent Duvernay-Tardif: “My goal is to do good and to help people be healthy”
Date: Wednesday March 1, 2023
Janice Stein – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
Janice Stein: “It’s a profoundly encouraging thing that so many people want to understand more than they currently do.”
Date: Thursday February 16, 2023
Lisa Raitt – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
Lisa Raitt: “Growth in Canada has been so anemic; we need to talk about this now in hopes of staving off the same kind of emergency situation (as the mid-1990s).”
Date: Thursday February 9, 2023
Stephanie Nolen – 2023 Hyman Solomon Award Honouree
Stephanie Nolen: “When you establish points of commonality with the people who are living through these experiences, then people start to be concerned”
Date: Thursday February 2, 2023
John Risley – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
John Risley: "We wanted someone who would be a good steward for the business. And that led us very quickly to First Nations"
Date: Thursday January 26, 2023
Harold Calla – 2023 Testimonial Dinner Award Honouree
“Providing the platform to move from managing poverty to managing wealth”
Date: Tuesday January 17, 2023
Canada’s Moonshot Expert Advisory Panel
PPF and BII+E are excited to announce the Expert Advisory Panel of our joint project, Canada’s Moonshot: Charting a Mission-Oriented Innovation Strategy. This advisory panel will provide in-depth expertise from a diversity of perspectives on innovation, business, policy, social and economic issues to help guide, challenge and validate research content and...
Date: Tuesday May 18, 2021
The Public Policy Leadership Program makes a splash during Smiths Falls visit
The Lanark, North Leeds & Grenville – Hometown News was hot on the trail of the Public Policy Leadership Program during its visit to Smiths Falls in May 2019 as the participants learned about the impact of cannabis legalization on the community southeast of Ottawa. Read the story.
Date: Wednesday June 5, 2019
CBC Analysis: NAFTA talks forced Canada to pick a side in U.S.-China trade war
"In signing on for NAFTA 2.0, Canada also joined the Trump administration's China agenda," writes CBC's Janyce McGregor in a CBC Analysis article. "When the Trudeau government agreed to a revised North American free trade deal, the Americans said Canada also agreed to something else: joining Donald Trump's trade war on China."
Date: Saturday October 13, 2018
Tom Walkon at the Toronto Star: How Canada can break its dependence on the United States
In this opinion piece, Thomas Walkom tries to answer the question - How can Canada break its dependence on the United States? A question that has bedeviled both the left and the right since 1945. He writes that PPF's Report “Diversification not Dependence,” makes a compelling case for Canada to escape the “honey trap” of its reliance on the U.S. by moving quickly to boost both economic and political relations with China.
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
Business in Vancouver: Canada should turn to sector-specific deals with China in light of USMCA, report says
Business in Vancouver's Chuck Chiang writes about PPF latest report "Diversification Not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada China Strategy." The report says Canada should turn to sectoral agreements - that is, deals focusing on specific industries like agriculture and energy - in growing business links with China in light of the perceived “U.S. veto” clause in the new USMCA North American free-trade agreement.
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
Maclean’s Op-ed: How Canada can work on trade with China—without angering America
PPF's Edward Greenspon and the Vice-Chair of the BMO Financial Group Kevin Lynch share their opinion on Canada-China trade in this Maclean's op-ed. They discuss how the Canadian government must diversify its economy, and China is the obvious target. But that there are risks with such a partnership.
Date: Thursday October 11, 2018
CBC: Canada can avoid offending U.S. by pursuing sectoral trade with China: report
Andy Blatchford writes that the authors of the PPF report "Diversification Not Dependence: A Made-in-Canada Strategy" argue that Canada can do more business with China 'in such a way that should not offend' the U.S. through a a surgical, sector-by-sector approach.
Date: Wednesday October 10, 2018
Radio Canada: News coverage shrinkage called a crisis in Canada
Radio Canada spoke with PPF's Carl Neustaedter about the report "Mind the Gaps: Quantifying the Decline of News Coverage in Canada". The report found that news coverage has dropped in local communities, and specifically there's less civic coverage of courts and city hall - civic institutions which are the pillars of democracy.
Date: Friday September 28, 2018
CBC Radio: Canadian newspapers have a lot to learn from the Saskatchewan Roughriders: report
"The Canadian journalism industry may be able to learn a thing or two from the Saskatchewan Roughriders, according to a new report," reads the CBC News article about the PPF report What the Saskatchewan Roughriders Can Teach Canadian Journalism. "The report is one of two released on Tuesday by the Public Policy Forum. The other adds to concerns about the decline of the industry and says the number of articles published in newspapers across 20 small and mid-sized Canadian communities declined by 50 per cent between 2008 and 2017." Accompanying the article was a radio interview with PPF's CEO Edward Greenspon.
Date: Tuesday September 25, 2018