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Revitalizing Canada’s Manufacturing Economy for a Post-COVID World

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


Rhetoric vs. Results: Shaping Policy to Benefit Canada’s Middle Class

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


A Keystone of Carbon Could be Our 21st-century Auto Pact

Canada desperately needs to matter more in the United States. After a run-up in the decade after NAFTA, our share of U.S. imports has fallen from roughly 16 per cent to 12 per cent since the Great Recession, leaving us behind both China and Mexico. Auto production, which for decades held fast well above the level guaranteed in the 1965 Auto Pact, was part of the descent.

Date: Thursday November 26, 2020


Announcing our 2019 Peter Lougheed Award honourees

On Nov. 13, join us at our Western Dinner in Calgary to honour Elizabeth Cannon, Stockwell Day, Dawn Farrell & Dave Mowat. Tickets are on sale now.

Date: Monday June 24, 2019


Mike Blanchfield

Contact Mike Mike Blanchfield comes to the Public Policy Forum as Director, Energy Policy and Global Affairs after a decades-long career as an international affairs journalist for several major news...

Date: Saturday December 28, 2019


China and Canada in an Era of Global Disruption

...adapting slowly Energy 1.5 — a revolution in demand + supply Demographics 2.0 — aging is affecting everything Climate change 2.5 — is a game changer Globalization 3.0 — a...

Date: Tuesday December 19, 2017


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


PPF’s 2022 Holiday Book List for the Wonk in Your Life!

...Gets to your heart and your head.” – Jonathan Perron-Clow, Project Lead, PPF Academy and Action Canada Fellowship Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet: Assessing and Adapting to...

Date: Tuesday December 20, 2022


Sustainable Finance 2

Canada has been trailing behind global developments in sustainable finance, though serious work – particularly in the private and not-for-profit sectors – is underway to develop and implement plans that support a sustainable outcome. If the sustainable finance market is to expand, Canada must provide comprehensive data and information and also offer policy and regulatory certainty for both providers and users. This report offers recommendations in four key areas.

Date: Wednesday February 10, 2021


Bringing New Voices to the Table: Re-thinking On-reserve Housing in Canada

...energy investments, such as wind or solar projects. Participants identified that resource revenue-sharing and impact-benefit agreements for a sale, development and extraction of natural resources from Indigenous lands would also...

Date: Monday February 27, 2017


Arash Golshan

Contact Arash Arash Golshan is a chemical engineer with a deep passion for public policy. His research interest is in the social and environmental implications of engineering projects, including energy...

Date: Sunday May 18, 2014


Securing Canada’s cyberspace

...enterprise in 2014? Source: RCA Conference and ISACA, “State of Cybersecurity: Implications for 2015” SABOTAGE Over the past few years, attacks against water systems, energy grids and other critical infrastructure...

Date: Monday February 6, 2017


Opinion: Without bold action, we’re going to miss a key climate and economic opportunity

Op-ed by Janet Annesley and Michael Bernstein, co-chairs of the Public Policy Forum’s Energy Future Forum – Carbon Management Working Group. The recent sixth assessment report from the UN’s Intergovernmental...

Date: Friday September 3, 2021


Naila Moloo – 2023 Emerging Leader Award Recipient

Filled with a burning desire to create positive change for her community, Caitlin Tolley has used her voice at home and on the global stage as an advocate for Indigenous people. On April 12, the Public Policy Forum will recognize her work with the Emerging Leader Award at its Annual Testimonial Dinner & Awards in Toronto.

Date: Monday April 3, 2023


PANEL 3—Established companies must ‘disrupt ourselves’ to be innovative and stay ahead

...to $10 billion in the last five years — and that has put “tremendous pressure on the business.” The energy industry is also being globally disrupted, said Lorraine Mitchelmore, former...

Date: Wednesday October 19, 2016