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No matter who becomes president after the upcoming U.S. election, Canada needs a plan.

The Public Policy Forum has teamed up with the Empire Club of Canada and the University of Toronto - Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy to bring you Borderline: How Canada can matter more to the United States — and the rest of the world.

This event will feature a discussion moderated by Amanda Lang with Edward Greenspon, PPF President and CEO, and Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School, on how Canada can remain resilient in the face of an evolving U.S. landscape. It will also include remarks by Munk School professor Drew Fagan.

Join us by attending virtually or in person in Toronto on Sept. 18. Register here: https://events.empireclubofcanada.com/Canada-US-Matter-More/begin

Electricity is shaping up to be the biggest national undertaking of the 21st century.

Last year, the federal government said it anticipates electricity demand will double between now and 2050.

This means Canadians — a population accustomed to abundant electricity — will likely experience supply scarcity. Hydro-Québec predicts that power surpluses in the province will vanish by late 2026.

Preparing for that future will require more than doubling our current supply capacity. But how?

At PPF, we are all about solutions. Here is our blueprint for putting the electrification challenge into the realm of the possible. 👉

Project of the Century - Public Policy Forum The Canadian government forecasted demand for electricity will double by 2050, yet, there is no choice but to wrestle emissions to net zero. This report is a blueprint for how to achieve both.

The countdown begins for the 2024 Frank McKenna Awards. Join us on October 10 in Halifax for an evening honouring exceptional public policy leadership in Atlantic Canada, hosted by award-winning journalist Hannah Thibedeau.

Register now! https://ppforum.ca/event/atlantic-dinner-and-frank-mckenna-awards-2024/

How prepared is Canada for the next global health crisis? Not nearly enough.

Some work is underway:

• The federal government has spent $1.2 billion since 2021 supporting biomanufacturing, vaccines and therapeutics projects, and pledged $140 million to a large research alliance led by the University of British Columbia;

• Pharmaceutical company Sanofi opened a new vaccine manufacturing facility in Toronto, with plans to open a second plant by 2027;

• Research hubs across the country are conducting vital work, including on countering vaccine skepticism and building an mRNA and cell therapeutics manufacturing centre; and

• Some provinces and territories have demonstrated a commitment to bolstering pandemic response and economic development.

But that’s where the good news ends.

Canada is the only G7 country without a national health security agency. Our emergency supply system is stuck in a “just in time” approach, rather than proactive procurement.

The cost of this unpreparedness could be immense.

If bird flu were to blossom into the existential threat many fear, would we be any better positioned than we were in 2020? What life-saving products are we producing in Canada? What are their supply chains? How quickly can they be deployed? Where are our production facilities? What are their capacities?

We simply don’t know.

In Exposed: How Canada can close its health security gaps, we outline actionable steps policymakers can take to ensure Canada is better prepared for the next health crisis, while making the country a more resilient and competitive player in the global life sciences market:

Exposed - Public Policy Forum The next pandemic or the next health threat may well defy our expectations again. The only thing we know for sure is there will continue to be major health threats in the future. In what form, where and when are all unknowns, which means we must be prepared for a public health enemy that we cannot t...

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How will the results of the upcoming U.S. federal election impact Canada-U.S. relations? What does the most up-to-date polling tell us? What is the best path forward?

On the eve of the U.S. election, we’re bringing together five incredible speakers — former U.S ambassadors Kelly Craft and Gordon Giffin, Clifford Young, President of Ipsos U.S. Public Affairs, Janice Stein, Founding Director of the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and Edward Greenspon, President of the Public Policy Forum — to discuss these questions and more.

Join us for an evening of conversation and connection at our 2024 Fall Lecture, to be held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on October 24.

Register now:

Fall Lecture 2024: Canada’s relationship with the U.S. - Public Policy Forum A new era of Canada-U.S. relations, driven by global rivalry and domestic restlessness, has dawned and so we need all the clever thinking we can get. Join us for PPF’s much-anticipated Fall Lecture as we up our game with five incredible speakers explaining what’s going on — and what we can do ...

What is agentic AI?

Imagine having a digital assistant that could help you do everything from planning travel to managing your spending.

This next generation of AI is already revolutionizing the tech landscape. PPF Fellow Shingai Manjengwa, Head of AI Education at ChainML, joined host Jon Krohn on the podcast Superdatascience to explain why.

Listen to the episode here:

SDS 809: Agentic AI, with Shingai Manjengwa - Podcasts - SuperDataScience | Machine Learning | AI | Data Science Career | Analytics | Success Agentic AI is revolutionizing the tech landscape, and Shingai Manjengwa from ChainML is here to tell us why. Discover how AI agents are becoming an integral part of our lives, automating tasks like travel bookings and daily inspiration. Shingai explains the power of multi-agent systems, where AI age...

𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲. 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲.

Responding to the global crisis presented by the pandemic necessitated collaboration across governments, the life sciences sector, academic institutions and researchers.

Five years on, the momentum behind efforts to strengthen Canada’s health security has slowed.

It’s only a matter of time before we will have to weather the next health crisis. Preparing for that inevitability means the nation’s focus must shift to keeping established partnerships alive.

It also means maintaining secure supply chains and investing in the infrastructure required to manufacture essential health-care products on domestic soil.

What meaningful steps can policymakers take to move the needle?

In the Public Policy Forum’s latest report, 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑: 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑠, our panel of experts makes recommendations on how to do just that, including:

• Establish a Canadian Health Security Agency (CHSA);

• Develop legislation to facilitate data sharing and proprietary information about critical life sciences products for the public good;

• Require comprehensive and proactive procurement, stockpiling and replenishing of essential emergency supplies at all health-care facilities in Canada;

• And more.

Read the full report here:

Exposed - Public Policy Forum The next pandemic or the next health threat may well defy our expectations again. The only thing we know for sure is there will continue to be major health threats in the future. In what form, where and when are all unknowns, which means we must be prepared for a public health enemy that we cannot t...

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A new era of Canada-U.S. relations has dawned — and we’re going to need all the clever thinking we can get.

On the eve of the U.S. election, join us for an engaging discussion about Canada’s complex relationship with its neighbour to the south.

We will be hearing from five incredible speakers: Kelly Craft and Gordon Giffin, former U.S. ambassadors to Canada; Clifford Young, President of IPSOS U.S. Public Affairs; Janice Stein, Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; and Edward Greenspon, President of the Public Policy Forum.

Register now for the 2024 Fall Lecture, to be held on October 24 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa:

Fall Lecture 2024: Canada’s relationship with the U.S. - Public Policy Forum A new era of Canada-U.S. relations, driven by global rivalry and domestic restlessness, has dawned and so we need all the clever thinking we can get. Join us for PPF’s much-anticipated Fall Lecture as we up our game with five incredible speakers explaining what’s going on — and what we can do ...

On October 10, we celebrate three inspiring leaders driving change in Atlantic Canada: Laura Lee Langley, President of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency; Chief Mi’sel Joe of Miawpukek First Nation; and Dr. Anya Waite, CEO of the Ocean Frontier Institute.

Grab your ticket for the 2024 Frank McKenna Awards today. Register here:

Frank McKenna Awards 2024 - Public Policy Forum Celebrating leaders making Canada and the Atlantic region richer through their ingenuity and initiative, register now for the Frank McKenna Awards: An evening celebrating outstanding public policy leadership in Atlantic Canada. Our 2024 honourees will be announced in the days ahead! 2023 HIGHLIGHTS

With today’s publication of 𝐸𝑥𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑: 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝐶𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑑𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑝𝑠, we would like to take a moment to express our gratitude to our sponsors.

Thank you to our strategic partners:

Health Canada | Santé Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), adMare BioInnovations, Hoffmann-La Roche Limited, Johnson & Johnson Inc., ISED (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada) and Eli Lilly Canada Inc.

And to our supporting partners:

Stem Cell Network, Moderna, Inc., Life Sciences Ontario, CADTH (Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health), Life Sciences British Columbia, Canadian Red Cross, GSK (GlaxoSmithKline), Genome Canada and BioCanRx.

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Exposed - Public Policy Forum The next pandemic or the next health threat may well defy our expectations again. The only thing we know for sure is there will continue to be major health threats in the future. In what form, where and when are all unknowns, which means we must be prepared for a public health enemy that we cannot t...

In 𝘌𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘥𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘴, the Public Policy Forum (PPF) underscores an urgent need for sweeping reforms to enhance Canada’s health security, as well as the many weak spots in the plan to prepare for the next national emergency.

Canada is the only G7 country without a national health security and emergency co-ordinating agency. Other gaps include the absence of a national asset map of life sciences goods and an underprepared emergency supply system.

If the final act of a pandemic is amnesia, writes the report’s author, Professor Emeritus Christopher Waddell of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communications, “then we are well and truly in the forgetting phase.”

Five years after the beginning of a pandemic that claimed millions of lives, policymakers are already forgetting its lessons. To shake this collective amnesia, PPF calls on leaders to embark on a concerted effort to strengthen Canada’s health security.

Some of our key recommendations:

• Establish a Canadian Health Security Agency (CHSA);

• Develop legislation to facilitate data sharing and proprietary information about critical life sciences products for the public good;

• Require comprehensive and proactive procurement, stockpiling and replenishing of essential emergency supplies at all health-care facilities in Canada;

• Negotiate a U.S. commitment for uninterrupted trade in life sciences essential products in the event of an international health emergency;

• Incentivize financing at all stages of company development to build anchor life sciences companies in Canada; and

• Measure our own progress through the publication of an annual report card on health security preparedness.

The report notes that “as the pandemic fades further into the background, the more time we have had to learn our lessons and ensure better preparedness in the future is also more time we have lost.”

Let’s get to it. Read the full report here:

Exposed - Public Policy Forum The next pandemic or the next health threat may well defy our expectations again. The only thing we know for sure is there will continue to be major health threats in the future. In what form, where and when are all unknowns, which means we must be prepared for a public health enemy that we cannot t...

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PPF will celebrate three inspiring leaders driving change in Atlantic Canada at the 2024 Frank McKenna Awards. Celebrate with us — register today for an inspiring night of conversation and connection on October 10 in Halifax:

Frank McKenna Awards 2024 - Public Policy Forum Celebrating leaders making Canada and the Atlantic region richer through their ingenuity and initiative, register now for the Frank McKenna Awards: An evening celebrating outstanding public policy leadership in Atlantic Canada. Our 2024 honourees will be announced in the days ahead!  

Personal health information should be as readily available to Canadians as banking or census data—yet it isn’t.

Canada’s subpar performance on data, the vital currency of today’s digital age, is depriving Canadians of better health outcomes by condemning patients, family advocates and clinicians to partially informed decisions and administrators to poor allocation of scarce resources.

There is a better way.

In “Unlocking Health Care,” we dive into how using digital technology and data can help Canada usher in a new era of health care.

Read the report here:

Unlocking Health Care: How to free the flow of life-saving health data in Canada - Public Policy Forum The transformative potential of health-care data is staggering. Imagine: more convenient access to health services; reduced wait times; more personalized care; identification of health risks and proactive intervention enabled by predictive analytics and AI-driven tools; and seamless access to electr...

We’re pleased to announce that Stephen Lucas will be joining PPF as a Fellow.

Lucas is an accomplished public servant with extensive experience in economic, environment, social and health policy, as well as science and technology. His distinguished career with the Public Service of Canada culminated with service as Deputy Minister of Health Canada since 2019.

Together with the Public Health Agency of Canada, and in collaboration with federal, provincial, territorial and Indigenous partners, scientific experts, local health and community organizations and the private sector, he led the federal government’s comprehensive health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the largest vaccination campaign in Canada’s history.

He also led work on the development and adoption of the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, Canada’s first national climate plan with the provinces and territories.

At PPF, we pride ourselves on putting forward ideas that help tackle the biggest issues of our time; we’ve found an excellent partner in Lucas and look forward to benefiting from his wealth of knowledge and wisdom on all fronts.

Welcome!

In 2010, the U.K. government wanted to increase the number of people who paid their taxes on time.

Officials consulted behavioural scientists, who suggested adding a sentence to letters sent to taxpayers telling them that ‘9 out of 10 people with a tax debt like yours pay their taxes on time.’

The intervention generated millions of pounds of tax revenue at no extra cost.

This is an early example of behavioural insights, a field emerging from the intersection of science and policy that has since become much more sophisticated.

We spoke with Sasha Tregebov, director of The Behavioural Insights Team, Canada, about how the field is helping shape the future of public policy and the important ethical considerations it involves.

Read the full conversation:

How ‘behavioural insights’ are changing public policy - Public Policy Forum Sasha Tregebov is the director of The Behavioural Insights Team, Canada. The organization originally formed within the U.K. government to apply behavioural insights to policy challenges. In effect, making better policy through science. Tregebov was a recent speaker at PPF’s Policy Leadership Progr...

After our Wonk-in-Chief Edward Greenspon announced he will be stepping down at the end of the year, we put five big questions to him.

Here, Greenspon discusses his post-PPF plans, his proudest achievement, and all that needs to be done in today’s challenging geopolitical climate.

“Politics is being radicalized and policymaking has been destabilized. We have a lot of work to do, and that will require a stronger political consensus.”

Read the full Q&A here:

Edward Greenspon: 'The world is blown around by momentous challenges.' - Public Policy Forum What does PPF’s President and CEO plan to do post-PPF? What’s his proudest achievement? How committed is he, really, to pickleball? Edward Greenspon discusses working with a new generation of Indigenous leaders, the reports he’s most proud of and his third act. 1. What has been your best PPF m...

Chief Mi’sel Joe, a 2024 Frank McKenna Awards honouree, is a beloved leader of the Miawpukek First Nation in Newfoundland and a member of the Order of Canada.

Under Chief Joe’s decades-long leadership, the community reformed its education system, built new infrastructure — including housing, a clinic, and a school — and introduced Mi’kmaq language immersion and cultural studies programs for high school students.

The secret to Chief Joe’s success? Knowing that being an effective leader is about reciprocity. “You don’t get very far by pounding on a desk. You have to earn respect, and you also have to be respectful,” he says.

After retiring as Chief earlier this year, Chief Joe joined Project Nujio’qonik, an effort to build a wind-powered hydrogen plant in Bay St. George led by the Newfoundland-based renewable energy company World Energy GH2.

Learn more about Chief Joe’s work here:

Chief Mi’sel Joe — Frank McKenna Awards 2024 honouree - Public Policy Forum “As a young man, I traveled across the country, and it was rough at times. But I learned many lessons. You have to earn respect, and you also have to be respectful.” “What kind of Indian are you?” asked a young man in a rooming house when Chief Mi’sel Joe...

We asked PPF team members and Fellows for recommendations on what they’re reading this summer. From “a beach read for wonks” to a Newfoundland poet’s debut, here are some of the biggest must-reads to add to your summer reading list:

Big Trudeau books and a poetry debut: PPF Reads - Public Policy Forum We asked PPF team members and Fellows for recommendations on what they’re reading this summer. Trudeau on the Ropes by Paul Wells. Wells’ Trudeau on the Ropes is a beach read for wonks: a policy book that is short, funny and a page-turner. In the lead up to next year’s...

“There aren’t many things left in the world that bring people together in peace.”

Ahead of the Olympics, Canadian Olympic Committee CEO David Shoemaker spoke with host Edward Greenspon about the importance of international competition in a time of war, racism in sport, and the challenge of making sport safer in Canada.

Listen to the full episode of our podcast, WONK, here:

How to win at the Olympics - Public Policy Forum This week on WONK, host Edward Greenspon talks to David Shoemaker

“The ocean has been missing in the climate dialogue. The ocean holds global carbon, and it’s the ocean’s action of taking up and outgassing carbon dioxide that essentially mediates our progress towards our climate goals.”

Dr. Anya Waite is our latest 2024 Frank McKenna Awards honouree, a distinction given to leaders whose ingenuity and initiative are driving change in Atlantic Canada. As CEO of the Ocean Frontier Institute, Dr. Waite is leading an ocean-first approach to the fight against global warming.

Learn more about Dr. Waite's work:

Dr. Anya Waite — Frank McKenna Awards 2024 honouree - Public Policy Forum “The ocean has been missing in the climate dialogue. The ocean holds global carbon, and it’s the ocean’s action of taking up and outgassing carbon dioxide that essentially mediates our progress towards our climate goals.” During her childhood in Halifax, the ocean was a fearsome presence, a ...

Public Policy Forum is excited to announce that Trevor Tombe will be joining us as a Fellow.

Tombe is a Professor and Graduate Program Director at the University of Calgary’s Department of Economics and a Research Fellow at The School of Public Policy.

He is also Co-Director of Finances of the Nation, a project to research public finance policies in Canada, and an active contributor to Canadian policy development and discussions. His research explores international trade, public finances and fiscal federalism, among other topics.

Tombe has emerged as a go-to analyst and commentator on policy and economics in Canada. He was a speaker at the Canada Growth Summit 2024 and a recent guest on our podcast, WONK.

PPF looks forward to Tombe’s valuable advice and mentorship as we continue to build good policy for a better Canada!

PPF Fellow Sean Speer and PPF President and CEO Edward Greenspon recently travelled to the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire on the 80th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference to consider the historic gathering’s “grand gift to humankind.”

“Although the direct output of the Bretton Woods conference would be the establishment of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, its raison d’être rested in creating an open, rules-based global trading system,” Speer and Greenpson write in an essay published in The Globe and Mail. “Precisely the kind of system seemingly blowing up all around us today with the unapologetic imposition of unilateral tariffs and anti-competitive subsidies and the laying of blame for everything from deindustrialization to distrust on the rise of China as a competitor to the United States.”

In this moment of rising geopolitical division, the authors examine whether reports of globalization’s death are exaggerated, what it will take to save it from its worst excesses — and the special role Canada can play.

“While accustomed to thinking of ourselves as a trading nation, we’re also one of the great trade policy nations,” they write. “Canada has an astonishing track record. Concerned that the 56-country International Trade Organization might never take flight, we suggested hedging the bet with the initially 23-nation GATT. In the early 1960s, Canada broke new ground in negotiating wheat sales to a still-isolated China. In more recent years, Canadian trade negotiators cobbled together 15 free-trade agreements covering 54 countries, including every G7 nation. And our trade-negotiating experience provided a degree of levelling up in the 2018 NAFTA renegotiation.”

“Canada is best positioned to help shape a new global trading model because other countries carry too much baggage,” says Steve Verheul, who led the Canadian negotiating teams on the Canada-Europe Free Trade Agreement and new NAFTA. The U.S. has abandoned leadership, China would not be acceptable and Europe is distracted by internal challenges, “leaving only a handful of free-trading mid-sized countries that could play this role.”

Read the article here:

Opinion: Bretton Woods birthed a genius world economic order. That order is now under threat Our rules-based global trading system is blowing up all around us today with the unapologetic imposition of unilateral tariffs and anti-competitive subsidies and the laying of blame for everything from deindustrialization to distrust on the rise of China

Congratulations to all the participants who completed the Policy Leadership Program — the first led by Program Director Rachel Wernick!

Over the course of a jam-packed seven days offered in partnership with the Telfer Executive Programs, participants covered topics as diverse as collaborative leadership, applying behavioural insights to policy, co-development of policy with Indigenous Peoples, and policy readiness. Participants had the opportunity to gain insights from Deputy Ministers, workshopped policymaking challenges and opportunities with peers, and acquired new leadership skills.

Thank you to all of the participants for their dedication to developing their craft as policymakers. A big shout out to Rachel Wernick for designing a thorough and impactful program that had participants buzzing with ideas, skills, and new relationships.

We will be offering the program again in January-February 2025. The last edition sold out, so register early to reserve your spot! To register, see the link in the comments.

Delighted to announce that Jay Khosla is joining PPF as part of an interchange with the Government of Canada.

A seasoned public service leader and one of the country’s leading experts on the energy sector and its many aspects — including hydro, nuclear, renewables, gas, oil, infrastructure and clean technology — Khosla has held senior executive positions focusing on economic and social policy priorities across complex national and international files.

Khosla was most recently with the Privy Council Office as Senior Assistant Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs where he worked on strengthening federal-provincial relations while delivering on post-pandemic economic recovery, western and eastern infrastructure projects, climate change, environmental legislation and regulation, investment attraction, innovation and internal trade.

As Executive Director, Economy and Energy Policy at PPF, Khosla will help strengthen the already successful Energy Future Forum, as well as enhance our global and domestic policy capacity. He will also bring thought leadership to some familiar key files, working as part of PPF’s leadership team with members and partners on economic growth, Canada-U.S. relations, trade and investment, federal-provincial alignment and Atlantic strategy.

We can’t wait. Welcome to PPF!

“What utilities and regulators need is a map: one with a clear destination, but also the route the jurisdiction aims to travel in getting there.”

Powering Canada’s clean energy transition in coming decades will entail a massive increase in electricity demand, as well as upgrading our grids to be bigger, better and cleaner. To do this, governments will need to treat clean electricity like health care: a provincial responsibility with federal funding and guardrails. Welcome to the era of electric federalism.

Read the full op-ed by Edward Greenspon, President of the Public Policy Forum, Chris Ragan, Founding Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy and Rick Smith, President of the Canadian Climate Institute:

How to accelerate Canada’s clean energy transition? Treat it like health care While we continue with the difficult task of cleaning the final 15 per cent of our existing electricity grid, a massive expansion is needed to handle a doubling or more