The Canada Growth Fund is led by some of Canada’s top investors, and we created it to invest in Canadian businesses, to help them scale, and to help crowd-in Canada’s share of the trillions of dollars in private capital that are waiting to be invested in the global clean economy. This is a really innovative way to make the people’s money work harder and to fill the gaps that private capital alone has not been filling in financing the green transition in Canada.
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Our mandate is to ensure that all Canadians have access to a world-class communication system, including those living in remote, rural and Indigenous communities.
I am so happy to be here today. This is a tremendous moment for Canada, for the Canada Growth Fund, for the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), for Eavor Technologies Inc., and for Alberta.
Let me just start by saying that the thoughts of all of us are with the loved ones of those killed and with the people of Sault Ste. Marie in the face of this horrific tragedy.
Inflation in September was 3.8 per cent—down from 4 per cent in August. The decline in headline inflation was broad-based, including on the price of food.
Our government is relentlessly focused on delivering for Canadians—on building more homes faster, on stabilizing prices, and on creating great careers.
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I am looking forward to your questions, so let me just briefly touch on three things. First, what the CRTC has heard directly from Canadians on the importance of high-speed Internet. Second, the role we are playing as part of the broader collective effort to connect communities. And finally, what we are doing to respond to the report.
Beyond modernizing the Competition Act, now is the time to look at how all of us in the public sector, at all levels of government – municipal, provincial, territorial and federal – can stimulate our economy by addressing restrictions that harm the competitive process.
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Our goal is to build a regulatory framework that is flexible and can adapt to disruption. To develop an approach that is prospective rather than prescriptive, and to create a system that is robust in the face of change.
