Publications
NEXT STEPS: Pan-Canadian Health Data Strategy
What needs to happen following the Expert Advisory Group’s Final Report
Do We Really Want to Make Canadians Poorer?
What shutting down its oil and gas sector would cost Canada
Settling the Unsettled: Closing the Urban-Rural Immigration Gap in Canada
Newcomers to Canada overwhelmingly settle in urban areas. Why do so few immigrants settle down in small and medium population centres in Canada, and how can we encourage them to do so?
Immigration in the Era of Remote Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Canada
This paper examines the intersection of these two subjects: remote work and immigration. Our recommendations will help attract immigrants to take part in a new Canadian economy that features remote work.
Let’s build a better Canada together. Whether you’re looking to support our mission by becoming a member, partnering with us on a project or sponsoring an event, your engagement helps drive informed, inclusive policy across the country.
We All Live on Indigenous Land: Building Trusted Relationships in Canada’s Immigration Process
Newcomers need to learn more about Indigenous Peoples’ histories, cultures, and lived experiences. This report features new research and engagement on how to support relationship building and truth telling between newcomers and Indigenous Peoples.
Employers’ Lessons Learned in Hiring, Retaining and Advancing Employees with Disabilities
Access Ability: Strategy Report
The Shattered Mirror: 5 Years On
Our latest report discusses how to save local news in Canada, and how to best adapt the Australian model of negotiated compensation between Google/Meta and the news industry.
Recommendations to Strengthen Canada’s Response to the Spread of Disinformation Online
In our second year, we again invited Canadians to volunteer to advise the Commission on Democratic Expression as well as the federal government on the regulation of digital platforms. In the midst of a pandemic, more than 600 Canadians volunteered to serve and 42 were randomly selected to represent the provinces and territories.
Debating the Right Balance(s) for Privacy Law in Canada
In fall 2021, the Public Policy Forum convened a group of academics, lawyers, representatives from the private sector and members of civil society to revive discussions around modernizing privacy law in Canada under the Chatham House rule.
New North Star III
Canada’s prosperity has relied too heavily on the here and now of deficit spending, booming real estate and debt-financed household consumption. We must instead redirect investment to the wealth and well-being of the future, particularly our ability to invent and innovate, generate world-leading technologies and firms and ultimately capture global markets. The invention and adoption of new products, services and processes must be the foundation of rising productivity and long-term prosperity.
