What will it take to get out of the supply-chain crisis?

Speed, throughput, and the removal of constraints need to be made the cardinal organizing principles of Canada’s transportation and goods-moving policy.

Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon. We need to treat transportation for what it actually is: an integral part of logistics, writes John Coleman.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOHN COLEMAN

November 26, 2025

Twenty years from now, Hollywood scriptwriters looking for a good storyline to crib will find a tantalizing cliff-hanger sitting in old news articles they read about Canada in 2025: will the Canucks pull themselves out of an economic nose-dive, or won’t they?

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