Building up Canada’s defence sector will depend on long-term homegrown support
The promised defence industrial strategy offers a significant opportunity to advance Canada’s innovation performance and the high-value jobs that should go with it. The biggest question is how we build the leadership and management skills that are essential for success.
MPs order release of records from new Defence Investment Agency after it leaves the PBO waiting
The House Government Operations and Estimates Committee took the step to compel the release of information after hearing from the parliamentary budget officer that multiple government departments have yet to comply with his post-budget requests to analyze financial plans.
Liberal budget on course for royal assent, election may not be until 2027, say strategists
The implementation bill for the 2025 budget is making its way through the House and Senate, and at least one more opposition day will be held before the fall supply period ends on Dec. 10.
Canadian AI sovereignty requires more than just servers
If we spend billions of dollars building domestic infrastructure only to run opaque, proprietary models licensed from Silicon Valley giants, we have not achieved independence.
In the murky new world order, Canada needs a growth plan
First, to achieve the generational pivot the times demand, Canada needs government operating at its best, with focused federal political leadership, bold policies, federal-provincial alignment and government-business collaboration—something that has been lacking in recent years.
The federal budget misses Canada’s biggest AI opportunity
With targeted investment, women could play a transformative role in shaping this next phase of Canada’s artificial intelligence-fuelled growth.
PBO repeats calls for transparency after he says budget uses ‘made-in-Ottawa’ definition of capital spending
Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques recommends the creation of an independent body that would define the government’s spending categories, after the feds unveiled a new structure shortly before the Nov. 4 budget was tabled.
‘Quiet buzz’ on Bay Street about Carney’s ‘nation-building’ major projects, says Tobin
The potential impact of these projects is up for debate as many are located in individual provinces or territories, and were previously approved by those jurisdictions. Meanwhile, the federal government wants to accelerate the construction of the Alto High-Speed Rail, Canada’s first high-speed railway from Toronto to Quebec City.
Most Liberals believe Poilievre’s their ticket to remain in government
While current popular support trends remain close between the two parties, Mark Carney’s personal popularity is in the stratosphere relative to Pierre Poilievre’s.
Budget delivers measures to grow the economy, but fails to deliver urgently needed transformation and generational change
A new Council of Canadian Academies report underlines that bolder and more ambitious policies for innovation and productivity are needed now, more than ever.
