Search Results for: Canada
Rhetoric vs. Results: Shaping Policy to Benefit Canada’s Middle Class
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Canada’s standard of living has been slipping: Between 1945 and 1976, parents could expect that their children would make twice the salary they did but today’s parents would be waiting 400 years for that to happen. Despite a professed desire to help the middle class, governments have done very little to do so; they fail to address this issue at their peril. This paper by PPF Fellow Don Wright provides several ways to fix the problem.
Date: Monday June 28, 2021
Canada’s Complicated Tango with the U.S.
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As a presidential election looms in the United States, Canada is facing three possible scenarios for its outcome. Trade with the U.S. remains largely as healthy as it was 30 years ago, but that could change as the country’s neighbour to the south looks inward. To combat this, Canada must continue to diversify while also trading south.
Date: Thursday October 1, 2020
Two Mountains To Climb: Canada’s Twin Deficits and How to Scale Them
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Canada must come to grips not just with a massive fiscal shortfall but also consecutive deficits in our current account, a broad measure of our trading and investment relationship with the rest of the world. A government plan must be growth oriented if we are to get the twin deficits under control without resorting to the drastic measures of 25 years ago.
Date: Monday September 14, 2020
Getting Canada Back on Track after COVID-19 with a Comprehensive Innovation Plan
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...Canada lags in commercialization and innovation outputs. We need to continue to plug away at finding winning applications of ideas in Canada. The pandemic also reinforced the need for sustained...
Date: Wednesday February 23, 2022
Developing Canada’s Digital-Ready Public Service
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Canada’s public service has charted an ambitious information management and technology strategy, and talent is one of its pillars. Finding innovative approaches to attracting, developing, and retaining the best and brightest requires rethinking many traditional assumptions and harnessing new approaches. What can be done to attract a skilled and diverse workforce?
Date: Friday March 8, 2019
Poisoning Democracy: How Canada Can Address Harmful Speech Online
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The rise of harmful speech online is a threat to Canada’s democracy. This report outlines how governments and digital platform companies can better address hate and harassment, including the creation of a Moderation Standards Council.
Date: Thursday November 8, 2018
Revitalizing Canada’s Manufacturing Economy for a Post-COVID World
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COVID-19 has made it clear that Canada needs a strong domestic manufacturing sector to produce what it needs. Industrial production has been stagnant in the country for two decades and it’s a must for Canada to create and sustain a resilient manufacturing economy that will also be more competitive in a globalized economy and that will create good jobs while minimizing environmental impacts.
Date: Thursday November 5, 2020
Canada-China meeting: National Security and Human Rights
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...informed and adept at engaging China. We should share knowledge. Chinese government operations in Canada // Some participants raised concerns with some activities of the Chinese Government inside Canada, particularly...
Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017
Canada-China Session 1: Setting the stage, public opinion trends, approaches to trade
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Recap of the first meeting of PPF's Canada-China Forum includes presentations on public opinion by Bruce Anderson of Abacus Data and sectoral trade by Wendy Dobson of University of Toronto
Date: Tuesday July 25, 2017
Navigating Canada-China Relations in a Turbulent Era
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Canada’s relationship has deteriorated since Canada arrested Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou and China retaliated by arresting Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. The Trudeau government has weighed the costs of human rights advocacy from an increasingly repressive China against commercial interest with the world’s second-biggest economy. It’s led to a stalemate of sorts, but there are some actions Canada could take.
Date: Wednesday October 7, 2020
More than Just a Rebuild: Creating a better future for Canada
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The country has been held back by lagging productivity and competitiveness, leading to a stagnant growth rate incapable of lifting Canadians’ standards of living. As we rebuild, simply going back to ‘normal’ is not an option.
Date: Thursday July 30, 2020
A Model for Canada-wide Population and Economic Growth Post-Pandemic
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As we move toward rebuilding our economy, policymakers should consider the success of the Atlantic Immigration Pilot as a model for regionally focused population and economic growth, especially in smaller cities and rural communities – likely to be hardest hit by the COVID-19 reduction in immigration.
Date: Friday November 13, 2020
Together or Apart? Seven Ways for Canada to Pivot to a Sustainable Recovery
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...school. As many as 150 million people may be pushed into extreme poverty by 2021 as a result of COVID-19. The SDGs in Canada Canada, like other UN member states,...
Date: Thursday November 12, 2020
Unlocking Health Care: How to Free the Flow of Life-Saving Health Data in Canada
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A system that still uses faxes needs to shift into the smartphone era. It's time for an urgent modernization of the health-care system.
Date: Monday January 29, 2024
The Data Talks: How Statistics Canada Measured a Pandemic
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Canada’s economy has had its ups and downs, crashes, failures and recessions, but how do you measure the business impact of a country that simply stopped working and intentionally shut down its economy to halt the spread of COVID-19?
Date: Tuesday November 3, 2020