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Jan 22, 2025 | 
thebusinesscouncil.ca | Robert Asselin
Canada’s Place in the World Economic Strategy Industry and innovation North America Taxation As published in The Globe and Mail The events of recent weeks may have finally shattered Canada’s economic complacency. U.S. President Donald Trump’s imminent disruptive trade agenda has sent shock waves through our political class, fuelling anxiety across the country. This external threat should also force a long-overdue reckoning with Canada’s deeper, self-inflicted economic vulnerabilities. The...
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Robert Asselin
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thebusinesscouncil.ca | Robert Asselin
Canada's Human Capital Canada’s Place in the World Economic Strategy Industry and innovation Resources and the Environment As published in The Hub When Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015, he embodied generational change and promised renewal, transparency, and ambition. Early achievements, such as the Canada Child Benefit, which significantly reduced child poverty, and enhancements to the Canada Pension Plan, which secured better retirements for future generations, reflected this promise....
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thehub.ca | Robert Asselin
When Justin Trudeau came to power in 2015, he embodied generational change and promised renewal, transparency, and ambition. Early achievements, such as the Canada Child Benefit, which significantly reduced child poverty, and enhancements to the Canada Pension Plan, which secured better retirements for future generations, reflected this promise. Yet, over time, the government’s initial momentum gave way to an overemphasis on political optics at the expense of substance.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Robert Asselin
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thebusinesscouncil.ca | Robert Asselin
Canada’s prosperity relies on global stability, the rules-based multilateral trading system, cooperation among like-minded partners and respect for sovereign states. Canada is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, which are the source of much of the country’s prosperity. Canadian energy producers and mining companies are key enablers of the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
thebusinesscouncil.ca | Robert Asselin |Sean Speer
Canada’s prosperity relies on global stability, the rules-based multilateral trading system, cooperation among like-minded partners and respect for sovereign states. Canada is blessed with an abundance of natural resources, which are the source of much of the country’s prosperity. Canadian energy producers and mining companies are key enablers of the transition to a low-carbon economy.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
thebusinesscouncil.ca | Robert Asselin |Theo Argitis
As published in The Globe and MailCanada’s productivity crisis has been a hot topic of conversation recently as economists and policy experts increasingly sound the alarm about the nation’s falling per capita income levels. The debate can seem complex and disconnected from everyday life – which is why politicians have often shied away from embracing a productivity agenda. But it’s an agenda that remains critical, nevertheless.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Robert Asselin |Theo Argitis
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
thehub.ca | Sean Speer |Robert Asselin
Commentary 7 September 2024 NDP leader Jagmeet Singh meets with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Nov. 14, 2019. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press. In The Weekly Wrap Sean Speer, our editor-at-large, analyses for Hub subscribers the big stories shaping politics, policy, and the economy in the week that was. The Liberals and the NDP policies are essentially indistinguishable.
