The Canada Project Progress Report 2007: The Roads Not Travelled

In January 2007, Signal49 Research released the final report of The Canada Project, Mission Possible: Sustainable Prosperity for Canada. The current report provides updates on the progress of the broad directions that public policy took during 2007, giving readers a sense of the extent to which the commitments, interests, and agendas of governments, policy-makers, and leaders at all levels are taking Canada in a positive direction as measured against the yardstick of sustainable prosperity. We assessed progress in five strategy areas: embrace competitiveness and productivity; rethink the workforce; adopt a coherent international strategy for trade, investment, and foreign relations; renew resource industries; and give Canada’s major cities the resources they need to succeed. We tested the soundness of our assessments by consulting 13 outside experts, and invited them to rate the 21 sub-strategies we had examined, based on their considered judgment of the progress made in 2007.