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POLICY RESOLUTIONS Finance & Taxation ..................................................................................................................... 1 1. Rebuilding the Economy - Reinvigorating Investment Attraction Policy in Canada ................. 1 2. Competitiveness for Canada’s Gateway ......................................................................................... 5 3. Land Trust Initiative ................................................................................................................................ 9 4. Simplifying and Modernizing the Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) Program ..................................................................................................................................................... 12 5. Child Care Credits For Small and Medium Size Businesses ............................................................ 14 6. Increase the Small Business Deduction ............................................................................................ 16 7. Time for a New Pension Paradigm .................................................................................................... 18 Transport & Infrastructure ......................................................................................................... 22 8. Keeping Ports Connected .................................................................................................................. 22 9. Aging Canadian Icebreakers ............................................................................................................ 25 10. Expanded Infrastructure Development for National Economic Recovery .............................. 27 11. Port and Major Airport Share Capitalization ................................................................................. 29 12. Transport Canada Civil Aviation: Addressing the Need to Speed up STCS & TSOS................ 32 13. Protecting Canada’s Arctic Interests - Canada’s Losing Battle ................................................ 34 Industry & Digital Economy ...................................................................................................... 36 14. Create a National Strategy to Safeguard Canada’s Pandemic-related Supply Chains ...... 36 15. Building National Prosperity through a New Industrial and Advanced Manufacturing Strategy ..................................................................................................................................................... 38 16. Tools to Assist SMEs Prepare For, Survive and Recover From Emergencies .............................. 42 17. Create a Global Research Fund to Finance Innovative Technologies and Research For The Benefit Of Human Life and the Global Economy ............................................................................... 44 18. Adopting a Harmonized Approach to a Health Information Framework ................................ 47 19. Driving Innovation in Canada ......................................................................................................... 49 20. Digital Broadband the Key to Economic Prosperity (2020)......................................................... 52 21. Accelerating Growth of the Health and Biotechnology Sector in Canada ............................ 56 22. Assisting Small Business with Minimizing the Risk and Recovery from Cybercrime .................. 59 23. The Role of Governments towards a Robust Digital Infrastructure in the Post Pandemic World .......................................................................................................................................................... 61 24. Prioritize Targeted Investment from the F/P/T Governments in Infrastructure in a Time of Pandemic: A Support for a Sustainable and Growing Economy .................................................... 64 25. Supporting Measures to Foster the Growth of Canada's Health and Bioscience Sector ...... 67 Agriculture ................................................................................................................................. 69 26. Supporting a Stronger, More Secure, and Sustainable Canadian Fruits and Vegetables Market ........................................................................................................................................................ 69 27. Securing and Stabilizing Canada’s Agriculture and Agri-food Industry for Long-term Prosperity after Covid-19 ........................................................................................................................ 73 28. Improving Risk Management for Agriculture Producers .............................................................. 75 29. Promoting Canada’s Agriculture Industry ..................................................................................... 80 Human Resources, Skills & Immigration ................................................................................. 83 30. Accelerating Immigration Programs in Canada .......................................................................... 83 31. Addressing Labour Market Disruptions through Basic Income Pilot Project ............................. 85 32. A Focus on Refugees ........................................................................................................................ 87 Indigenous & Territorial ............................................................................................................. 90 33. Adopting the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) Into Federal Law .............................................................................................................................................. 90 34. Addressing Canada's Unresolved Land Claims ............................................................................ 93 Natural Resources, Energy & Environment ............................................................................. 95 35. A Resource Sector Driven Recovery ............................................................................................... 95 36. Funding For Climate Change Adaptation – Severe Weather Disaster Mitigation through Flood Protection ....................................................................................................................................... 97 37. Federal Backing For Small Modular Reactors ............................................................................. 100 38. Hydrogen & Hydrail: A Real Advancement in the Transportation Sector .............................. 102 39. Reuse of Greywater to Help Address Unsustainable Water Resource Demand ................... 106 40. A Circular Economy from Plastics ................................................................................................. 109 41. A Path Forward for Canadian Energy .......................................................................................... 111 42. Reform Scope of Federal Environmental Assessments to Accelerate National Infrastructure Development ......................................................................................................................................... 113 Special Issues .......................................................................................................................... 116 43. Ending Child Labour/Slavery in Canada’s Supply Chain – A Government and Private Sector Solution .................................................................................................................................................... 116 44. Commercial Border Crossing Access ........................................................................................... 121 45. Canada Needs More Rigour in Regulatory Decision-making to Support National Competitiveness .................................................................................................................................... 124 46. Eliminate Unnecessary Exceptions to the Canadian Free Trade Agreement ....................... 126 47. Regulatory Reconciliation after Covid-19 ................................................................................... 129 Finance & Taxation 1. Rebuilding the Economy - Reinvigorating Investment Attraction Policy in Canada DESCRIPTION The federal government has made efforts in the past to create a competitive investment and venture capital environment, however the current policy focus on sufficiently building the economy this way in recent years is seemingly lacking and not well understood. Although Invest in Canada’s work is important and reports successful progress, more can and should be done (and in new ways) especially as the country re-builds from COVID-19. BACKGROUND “A core recommendation from CEOs of successful Canadian firms is that all players in Canada need to raise their game in investment attraction, learning lessons from best-practice jurisdictions ….” Invest in Canada is Canada’s global investment attraction and promotion agency and the foreign investor’s primary point of contact. Its customized services help global companies discover investment opportunities in Canada. Formally established in 2018, Invest in Canada works collaboratively with provincial, territorial and municipal governments to identify the gaps and barriers that exist to foreign direct investment to ensure its efforts and services are complimentary. Key services are providing: A. Investment support; market intelligence, business case development