A 2026 financial sector wish list

It’s time to commission an independent expert task force to ask how the sector’s regulatory framework should evolve to foster more competition and innovation.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. In an era of major economic and financial transformations, we need to ask whether our financial system and its supporting regulatory and policy infrastructure remain fit for purpose, write Jeremy Kronick and Mark Zelmer. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JEREMY KRONICK, MARK ZELMER

January 7, 2026

A country’s financial sector plays a crucial role in driving economic growth—Canada’s included. Canadian financial institutions and markets have had a long and successful track record in transforming savings into loans that have stimulated economic growth, supply...

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