Canadian chemistry sector well-placed to lead sectoral transformations

But deepened and sustained collaboration between industry, the provinces, the federal government, Indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders will be necessary to succeed.
Jonathan Wilkinson, Steven Guilbeault, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured Nov. 19, 2020, at Ottawa's Experimental Farm. Recent actions and proposed investments by the chemistry industry align well with the ambitions of the re-elected federal Liberal government and its important environment and natural resources ministers, writes Bob Masterson, however, Ottawa could increase the certainty that these many proposals will successfully reach the final investment decision stage by paying more careful attention to the overall investment climate in Canada.
Canada looks well-positioned to attract an increased share of investments necessary for the major transformations facing the global chemistry sector in the coming years—the transformation to net-zero carbon and the transformation to a circular economy for plastics. In Alberta, in particular, the ...

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