November 4, 2024
Senior Vice President, Policy, Business Council of Canada
Robert Asselin
CABE/TABE Webinar – Addressing Canada’s Productivity Paralysis: Recommendations for Improving Innovation, Output and Living Standards in Canada
For two years, real GDP per capita and productivity have been declining in Canada. While surging population growth explains part of this deterioration, lackluster productivity gains is a concern that has plagued the Canadian economy for decades. Many things have been tried but few have moved the needle on boosting output per hour worked.
Leading policy thinker, Robert Asselin, has recently published 17 recommendations for the federal government that he believes will help to turn things around for Canadian productivity. With his background in politics and policy, few people have a better understanding of the practicalities of how policy is developed and deployed at the federal level. Please join us as Robert presents his findings, which will be followed by a discussion with Hendrik Brakel, an economist also deeply experienced in the politics and policy of innovation, and likely vigorous Q&A with the audience.
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Senior Vice President, Policy, Business Council of Canada
Robert Asselin
Robert leads the policy team and the Council’s work on economic and fiscal policy. He has written extensively on innovation and industrial policy. Robert brings more than 10 years of experience in providing policy advice to government, including in roles as Policy and Budget Director to Canada’s Finance Minister and as Advisor to Prime Ministers Paul Martin and Justin Trudeau. Prior to joining the Council, he spent two years at BlackBerry as Senior Global Director, Public Policy. Robert also spent nearly a decade in academia as Associate Director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and as Visiting Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. He continues to serve as a Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and at the Public Policy Forum.
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