Many advocacy groups out there today seem more focused on simply gaining attention while promoting their utopian ideals with little concern for the deeper economic impacts their positions would have on what makes Canada the Canada of today. However, there does exist out there a few champions and voices of reason.
Since 1925, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce has connected businesses of all sizes, from all sectors and from all regions of the country to advocate for public policies that will foster a strong, competitive economic environment that benefits businesses, communities and families across Canada.
It’s refreshing to see an advocacy group providing real-world, substantive, no nonsense, and pragmatic recommendations for the benefit and future of all Canadians and their quality of life.
In late July the Canadian Chamber of Commerce released a report titled Stuck in Traffic for 10,000 Years: Canadian Problems that Infrastructure Investment Can Solve, which examines how lack of proper infrastructure is leading to lost opportunities and wasted time for both Canadian companies and residents.
The full list of topics covered in the report includes:
- Facilitating trade through the Asia-Pacific Gateway and Corridor
- Improved digital access and investment across Canada
- Maximizing the potential of Northern communities and businesses
- Enhancing the Québec-Ontario trade corridor
- Getting oil and gas to global markets
- Green electrification and transmission
In summary from the report:
There is an opportunity for the next decade of infrastructure investment in Canada to be truly nation changing by unleashing the private sector and targeting specific economic problems through public investment. The problems identified in this report are not the only problems in Canada that infrastructure investments should target, nor is infrastructure the sole means of solving them. However, they are important economic issues that demand federal focus to better prepare Canada for the economic, environmental and technological changes that lie ahead.
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