Think, Act and Win globally. Canada needs to develop new economic partnerships, both for its own sake and as a counter to potential financial instability and the related rise of the European Union, China and India. How government responds is crucial to our future. Unlike their counterparts in the U.S. and European Union, Canadian businesses cannot formally ask their government to pursue violations of trade agreements. It's time to implement private-party petition mechanisms to allow Canadian companies to petition the government to pursue an international trade dispute.
Companies can change that, if they change their thinking.
In almost any type of company today, an enterprise-wide approach to Risk Management works best. The tendency of public companies to disclose only the financial information they are required to has to change. Disclosing more than is necessary can produce dividends and one of the biggest is greater value for a company's shareholders. It's not who you know. It's what you know.