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Bentley Allan

April 23, 2026
The time for a renewed effort to understand, track, and inform Canadian industrial policy has never been better. This report introduces a framework designed to bring analytical discipline to that task.

Featured Brief

Bentley Allan

April 23, 2026
The time for a renewed effort to understand, track, and inform Canadian industrial policy has never been better. This report introduces a framework designed to bring analytical discipline to that task.
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Assembling Canada’s Auto Sector: Lessons from a century of industrial policy

Greig Mordue, James Meadowcroft

April 23, 2026
Canada’s automotive industry stands at a critical juncture. This report aims to inform practical industrial policy decisions by identifying available opportunities and highlighting the risks those strategies entail.
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Building a Canadian Dual-Use Industrial Commons

Matthew da Mota, Laurent Carbonneau

April 23, 2026
Canada needs a dual-use industrial commons—an integrated ecosystem that builds manufacturing capacity, retains the downstream value of defence investment in Canada, and ensures that governance over critical systems remains in Canadian hands.
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Canada at the Frontier: A Framework for Industrial Policy

Bentley Allan

April 23, 2026
The time for a renewed effort to understand, track, and inform Canadian industrial policy has never been better. This report introduces a framework designed to bring analytical discipline to that task.
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Canada’s Industrialized Construction Advantage

Michelle German, Derek Eaton

April 23, 2026
To build industrialized construction into a strategic domestic manufacturing sector, Canada should treat mass timber and modern methods of construction as a coordinated manufacturing ecosystem, and should use sustained policy commitment, industry-government coordination, and aligned supply- and demand-side tools to build globally competitive production capacity.
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The rupture is here: Why Canada needs an economic security act like Japan’s

Bentley Allan

February 10, 2026
The ecosystem of agencies — from the Major Projects Office to Build Canada Homes to the Defence Investment Agency — that the Carney government is now creating enhances Canada’s capacity to act strategically. But a Canadian Economic Security Act would provide the targeted focus and the public-private collaborative structures necessary to turn these fragmented efforts into a coherent grand strategy.
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From sales mandates to industrial policy: Canada’s auto strategy shift

Moe Kabbara, Bentley Allan

February 5, 2026
The ambition and scope of the strategy demonstrate that the government understands the global stakes of the challenge and the need to integrate multiple policy tools into a coherent framework.