Hub Podcasts The 2030s could be Canada’s catch-up decade
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Aug 29, 2025 The discussion highlights Canada's transformative potential in the 2030s, tackling productivity issues and retaining talent. It critiques the current project-based infrastructure approach, advocating for sustainable planning and investment in areas like high-speed rail. Furthermore, the podcast exposes inefficiencies within Canada’s planning and healthcare systems, urging reforms for greater market transparency. On a lighter note, it examines the significant rise in coffee prices driven by tariffs, affecting consumers, especially working families.
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Canada's Hidden Drift
- Canada has many structural advantages but has nonetheless drifted into stagnation over decades.
- Recognizing self-inflicted policy failures is the first step to making the 2030s a catch-up decade.
Projects vs. Institutional Systems
- Canada builds one-off projects and awards headlines instead of creating continuous institutions to scale infrastructure.
- Institutions that recycle experience and capital are needed to produce durable public assets at scale.
Design Continuous Investment Institutions
- Do design institutions that invest consistently rather than funding ad hoc capital projects intermittently.
- Focus budgets on system builders that specialize in producing durable public assets over time.