Competitiveness

"For Canada, the quality of public service has long been a competitive advantage. The key now is to set ourselves up to continue to be a global leader."

On June 18th, 2021, the Public Policy Forum brought together over 30 experts and practitioners in the immigration space in Canada. The roundtable, Strengthening Canada’s Immigration Ecosystem, focused on a digitally enabled modernized immigration system. The consensus was clear: A modernized immigration system is necessary, and any such modernizations must be inclusive, immigrant centred, and must not perpetuate biases within the system. Katie Davey, Policy Lead at Public Policy Forum and Fatemah Ebrahim, Policy Associate at Public Policy Forum reflect on the roundtable conversation:

Canadian Economic Competitiveness

Past Event

As COVID-19 continues to impact our nation culturally, economically and politically, policymakers can no longer think about economic growth and public policy in the same way as in the past generation and a half. PPF Fellows Robert Asselin and Sean Speer suggest that Canada requires a bold policy response: a new, forward-thinking, challenge-driven growth strategy.

The rise of the intangible economy requires us to re-evaluate, refine and reorient how we think about economic policy and aim to position Canada to compete in a new market dynamic. The stakes are high. We need to make the right choices today if we want to thrive in an era of intangibles. And some of these decisions challenge decades of conventional wisdom.

Canada needs a clear, new program for competitiveness that accounts for classic economic challenges and a new set of disruptions such as intellectual property, data and labour participation.