Elevating Canada’s industrial policy conversation.

Canada’s nation-building mission hinges on ambitious industrial strategies for defence, housing, automotive, and critical minerals. Building competitive industries is difficult enough, but these strategies also must achieve multiple goals at once, diversifying trade, securing geopolitical autonomy, achieving climate competitiveness, and producing tangible economic benefits for Canadians.

To deliver, Canada needs integrated analysis informed by high-quality information. The Centre for Industrial Policy will work with the country’s best analytical talent to understand what’s working and what’s missing in Canada’s economic strategy. It will connect systems-level strategy to innovative indicators that track progress towards tractable goals.  

The CIP exists to bring the bigger picture into focus, helping create a more ambitious vision for Canada’s economic future, and supporting implementation by translating that vision into smart policy design.

An initiative of the Transition Accelerator, the CIP will be built on collaborations with industry, civil society, government, Indigenous communities and organizations, and other experts.