Ottawa must pair its trade diversification strategy with clear, mandatory supply chain standards to protect workers and support responsible businesses.
Canada has built one of the world’s most sophisticated systems for attracting highly educated immigrants. But attracting human capital is not the same thing as putting it to productive use.
With CUSMA weakened and the WTO in decline, regional agreements offer Canada a path through a trading order increasingly shaped by tariffs, sanctions and national security.
Why Canada’s productivity crisis is rooted in its inability to build the industrial clusters that keep talent, capital and frontier industries at home.