A new cabinet will be announced on Tuesday 🏗️🇨🇦
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The Liberal Party of Canada under leader Mark Carney has been returned to government with a strengthened minority. How will they set their agenda?
As a first step, in the next few days, Prime Minister Carney will choose his cabinet – the collection of ministers that lead key parts of the government, e.g. Finance, Defence, Housing, etc.
Since the 1970s, Canadian prime ministers have issued mandate letters to their cabinet to outline government priorities, advise on strategy, and state specific tasks to be accomplished in each portfolio.
In 2015, Justin Trudeau made these letters public. The stated aim was to increase accountability but the reality was very different: Trudeau’s mandate letters were little more than tools for public relations with no clarity about the department’s mission and priorities. Here is an example of one of these letters.
Prime Minister Carney may or may not make his mandate letters public. But, whatever he decides, the letters should be written with an emphasis on immediate action and getting Canada building again.
We have worked with entrepreneurs in our network to craft examples of the kind of mandate letters that could help transform the party’s policy agenda into action. We hope that they will help start a conversation on how this government can turn their bold ambitions into concrete reality.
We will be releasing them early next week.
In The Media
🗞️ Daniel Debow Wants Canada To Get Rich Quicker [Macleans]
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📺 How the ‘Build Canada’ forum aims to help the economy [CP24]
What Else We’re Reading
Canada’s economy needs to be remade in a dramatic and unapologetic way… Ottawa itself needs to get out of the way of the economy. It needs to dare to lower corporate taxes and eliminate over-regulation, while also ending corporate subsidies, unproductive tax breaks and statist price-fixing for farmers.
🗞️ Mr. Carney’s hinge moment is finally here [Globe & Mail]
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Many public servants were frustrated by the sheer volume of priorities and new initiatives under the Trudeau government, which left them overworked, overstretched, and pulled in too many directions. With too many competing priorities, the government struggled to focus or hold ministers accountable. Narrowing that list could make progress easier to track and more likely to happen, said several senior officials.
🗞️ Could ‘mission government’ solve Ottawa’s delivery problems? [Policy Options]
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A hurdle to mass production is that homebuilding regulations currently vary across provinces and even municipalities, which makes it hard to service different cities with standardized factory-made parts.
🗞️ Mark Carney’s bet on prefabricated homes has promise – and big risks [Globe & Mail]
🏠 Read our memo on freeing zoning to build more homes