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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.
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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Tamara Krawchenko, Maya Willard-Stepan, Nic Jekill
May 7, 2026
Canada’s energy transition is underway, but without a deliberate strategy to align clean energy investment with regional economic development, the benefits will remain unevenly distributed. Regional energy economy planning offers a framework for turning clean energy investment into a driver of jobs, industrial diversification, and community prosperity, rather than treating the energy transition and economic development as separate agendas.
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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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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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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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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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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.