Toward a New Canadian Industrial Strategy
On June 19, 2025, C3 hosted a webinar called “Toward a New Canadian Industrial Strategy.” Experts discussed the Commission’s final report, on how Canada can reinvent its approach to industrial policy.
The final report from the Commission on Carbon Competitiveness and The Transition Accelerator explores how Canada should reinvent its approach to industrial policy, focused on both legacy industrial sectors and new innovative sectors and technologies.
This webinar dove into the details of the report’s recommendations and featured the perspectives of different stakeholders on the question of whether and how Canada should move forward to seize the opportunities of the moment in advancing the sustainable competitiveness of Canadian industry.
Speakers:
- Aaron Cosbey, Senior Associate, IISD and Chair, Commission on Carbon Competitiveness
- Travis Southin, Future Economy Lead, The Transition Accelerator
- Michael Bernstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Clean Prosperity
- Sarah Petrevan, Vice President, Industrial Decarbonization and Sustainability, Cement Association of Canada
- Sean Speer, Senior Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto
- Marie-Pierre Ippersiel, President and Chief Executive Officer, PRIMA Québec
- Marisa Beck, Research Director for Clean Growth, The Canadian Climate Institute
Navigating Net-Zero: Policies to Help Canadian Industry Compete
On October 22, 2024, C3 hosted a webinar titled “Navigating Net-Zero: Policies to Help Canadian Industry Compete,” where top experts shared insights from two groundbreaking new reports by the Commission on Carbon Competitiveness.
How will Canadian industry prosper in a decarbonizing global economy?
This webinar explored the recommendations to Canadian policymakers arising from two new reports by the Commission on Carbon Competitiveness — a group of leading Canadian and U.S. experts in economics, climate policy, and trade law.
For over a year, the Commission has studied the opportunities and challenges facing Canadian industries as they work to reduce their emissions while remaining globally competitive.
At the webinar, Commissioners were joined by leaders from Canadian industry to look at how public policy tools like emissions pricing systems, border carbon adjustments, and emissions-intensity standards can best be designed to support Canadian competitiveness.
Panelists included:
- Barbara Zvan, President and CEO of University Pension Plan Ontario, member of Canada’s Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance
- Catherine Cobden, President and CEO of Canadian Steel Producers Association
- Karen Proud, President and CEO of Fertilizer Canada
Whatever Canada does, cooperation with our biggest trading partner will be critical. The webinar discussed the implications of the upcoming U.S. presidential election for Canadian industry’s push to decarbonize.
This event marked the launch of the Commission’s first two reports on Canadian carbon competitiveness. The first report analyzes the unique competitiveness challenges across specific industrial sectors. The second report makes recommendations to policymakers that are designed to protect the competitiveness of these industries as they decarbonize.