The New North America Initiative

The New North America Initiative is an Alberta-led response to the immediate and long-term challenges facing Canada and the province in a changing political and economic relationship within North America and the world.

Led by Carlo Dade, Director of International Policy at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, the Initiative includes leading experts on North American relations from post-secondary institutions and public policy think tanks in Canada and the United States.

The vision for the Initiative is to embrace new approaches and move beyond outdated thinking and traditional centres of influence to create strong public policy recommendations for current and emerging issues.

The New North America Initiative welcomes participation from a community of game-changers in public policy.

Carlo Dade
Director, International Policy, School of Public Policy

The New North America Initiative aims to:

Move Canada to a more proactive position in global trade. Develop better capacity to anticipate political, economic, logistical and technological changes that affect Canadian exporters and importers.
Provide pragmatic policy options for policymakers. Develop research to understand the changing global environment allowing for recommendations of different policy tools and responses to support and align with Canadian governments, businesses and other interest holders.
New ways of thinking. Help Canadian governments develop engagement strategies by combining critical and radical challenges to conventional thinking with rigorous research, quantitative analysis and testing with practitioners.
Contribute to real prosperity in Canada. The goal of trade-enabled economic growth is to improve the quality of life and security for all Canadians.