Team Canada has an information problem

A tariff cannot be stopped by better data but the ability to securely connect and use reliable and timely information will help Team Canada identify vulnerabilities faster, redirect supply chains, support workers, and find new markets before the next shock becomes a crisis.
Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, left, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly, and Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu announce tariff countermeasures at a metal roofing company in Ottawa on Aug. 25. The federal government's focus on 'one Canadian economy' has to include integrated economic data, write Tony Labillois and Alain Dudoit.

The collapse of Canada-United States trade negotiations marks more than another escalation in a tariff dispute. It confirms that the assumptions underpinning Canada’s economic relationship with the U.S. have fundamentally changed.

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