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• Business Confidence Declines: What Canadian Businesses are Saying

  • June 19^th, 2025
  • Advocacy, Community
  • blog, tariffs, chamberofcommerce, regionofwaterloo, challenges, consumer, demand, smallbusiness, quarterly, Advocacy

  Written by: Art Sinclair, Vice President, Public Policy & Advocacy   The Canadian Chamber of Commerce (CCC) has just released its Q2-2025 Business Insights Quarterly report – an important snapshot of the current business climate in Canada.  Since the implementation of American tariffs and other global trade measures earlier this year, Canadian businesses have been […]

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• Build a new Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph, every party says. So what’s the holdup?

  • February 14^th, 2025
  • Community, Advocacy
  • Kitchener, blog, tariffs, trade, highway7, guelph, therecord

  It’s wrong to build a new Highway 7 between Kitchener and Guelph even if all mainstream political parties want it done, Michael Parkinson says. He’s distressed by its unrevealed total cost and by the environmental impact on fields and wetlands. He feels the spending steals from higher priorities such as eliminating homelessness, improving health care […]

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• Looming Trump Tariffs a Serious Concern but Also an Opportunity for Unity

  • February 3^rd, 2025
  • Advocacy, Community
  • trump, tariffs, unity, canada

  As the U.S.-opposed tariffs have turned from a threat to a reality, there remain many questions about just how badly it will impact the Canadian economy and what it will do to Canadians. Most economists and business leaders agree it’s going to hurt. The federal and provincial governments have bounced around a number of potential […]

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