Speeches and Presentations
“It’s all about people” should be the theme that guides Canada’s actions in 2015, according to Institute President and CEO William B. P. Robson. In “It’s All About People – Really! Some Human Capital Priorities for Canada in 2015,” Robson provides his perspective on national policy priorities for the new year.
Prepared for the Institute’s National Council, the report lays out Robson’s recommendations for building, deploying and equipping our human capital, and creating an environment that fosters entrepreneurship and innovation. His recommendations include:
Raising the profile of key international education performance measures, like PISA and TIMSS, and committing to moving Canada back into the front rank; Ottawa should…The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement launches Canadian trade policy into the 21st Century, according to Canada’s former Ambassador to the EU, Ross Hornby. In “From Laggard to Leader: How CETA Transforms Canada’s Trade Agenda,” a C.D. Howe Institute conference paper, Hornby asserts that CETA makes progress on behind-the-border issues that constitute the true obstacles to trade: the use of regulations to discriminate against imports, local content requirements, lack of harmonized product standards, restrictions on investment and labour mobility. Additionally, Hornby calls into question the sustainability of Canada’s hotly contested supply management system.
The C.D. Howe Institute is an independent…
The C.D. Howe Institute has posted the transcript of former Ambassador David Mulroney’s speech to the C.D. Howe Institute on Canada-China relations. He made the remarks at the Institute’s 2012 Annual Calgary Policy Dinner, held on October 24, 2012.
Few people have had a more significant impact on Canada’s relationship with China than Mulroney, now a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the…
Opening Statement of a presentation by Daniel Schwanen, Associate Vice-President, Trade and International Policy, C.D. Howe Institute, presented at the invitation of the Standing Committee on International Trade of the House of Commons.
THE CETA NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION: A STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITY FOR CANADA
I appreciate the opportunity to appear before the committee.
Much of what I will say draws on a Backgrounder on the Canada-EU negotiations published last month by the C.D. Howe Institute, of which the Clerk of the Committee has an electronic version.
J’ai préparé ma présentation en Anglais aujourd’hui, mais il me fera plaisir de répondre aux questions dans les deux…
In Why the Critics of Free Trade are Mistaken , Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Economics and Law, Columbia University, speaks at The Sylvia Ostry Lecture, October 2008.
