Bold Ideas Toronto Listening Tour—October 2025

October 14, 2025

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Pages:35 pages29 min read

Author: The Conference Board of Canada

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This report summarizes the insights and actionable steps derived from two September 2025 events focused on surfacing bold ideas for how Canada can achieve lasting prosperity and a better future and how to get there.

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Bold Ideas for Canada: Toronto | September 17–18, 2025

This report highlights 13 bold ideas that came out of discussions among 71 participants at two September 2025 events hosted by the Conference Board of Canada’s Centre for Canadian Growth and Prosperity, in partnership with Shad Canada.

What key themes kept surfacing in terms of challenges that Canadians are facing? How do participants envision Canada’s future, and how do we get there? What will it take for Canada to compete and lead globally while also focusing on the daily wellbeing of Canadians?

Read the report to get our full analysis.

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Canada is at a crossroads
What we did
Setting the stage: Fireside chat
What we heard from Canadians
Top ideas
Build a stronger Canada
Improve Canadians’ quality of life
A national conversation
Centre for Canadian Growth and Prosperity
Appendix A: Methodology