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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 1d

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MBP Roundtable: Budget Changes, Pipeline Politics, and the State of Canada's Auto Sector

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 1d

🎧 Policy Nerds — Is child care capex for the federal budget even if it has huge labour supply benefits?

(Hint: No, but what does that mean for the future of social policy under Carney? Huge implications)

We get into this + much more latest pod www.mbpintelligence.com/blog/mbp-rou...

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MBP Roundtable: Budget Changes, Pipeline Politics, and the State of Canada's Auto Sector

Listen on Apple, Spotify and Amazon Music. In this episode of MBP Intelligence Briefing, Ben Woodfinden, Tyler Meredith, Ken Boessenkool and Shannon Phillips discuss: * Changes to the timing and pr...

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4xOx...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...

Amazon: music.amazon.ca/podcasts/bf5...

MBP Roundtable: Budget Changes, Pipeline Politics, and the State of Canada's Auto Sector

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 1d

🎧 Policy Nerds — Is child care capex for the federal budget even if it has huge labour supply benefits?

(Hint: No, but what does that mean for the future of social policy under Carney? Huge implications)

We get into this + much more latest pod www.mbpintelligence.com/blog/mbp-rou...

#cdnpoli

MBP Roundtable: Budget Changes, Pipeline Politics, and the State of Canada's Auto Sector

Listen on Apple, Spotify and Amazon Music. In this episode of MBP Intelligence Briefing, Ben Woodfinden, Tyler Meredith, Ken Boessenkool and Shannon Phillips discuss: * Changes to the timing and pr...

www.mbpintelligence.com

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4xOx...

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MBP Roundtable: Budget Changes, Pipeline Politics, and the State of Canada's Auto Sector

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 1d

🎧🎙️ NEW POD - Just in time for the long weekend

Nerd out with me, Ben, Ken and Shannon on

— Carney’s new budget framework: what it changes and what it means for you

— Pipeline plans

— Trump’s attack on auto and where we go

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#cdnpoli #cdnecon #cusma

MBP Roundtable: Budget Changes, Pipeline Politics, and the State of Canada's Auto Sector

Listen on Apple, Spotify and Amazon Music. In this episode of MBP Intelligence Briefing, Ben Woodfinden, Tyler Meredith, Ken Boessenkool and Shannon Phillips discuss: * Changes to the timing and pr...

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 5d

Note - I wrote this last week before today’s Canadian delegation meets with Trump. It’s not meant to parse those events but rather what Trumpism is and the policy issues it raises and how we deal with those.

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 5d

If we are going to manage in an era of Trump we need to be clear eyed about his policy agenda - it’s more comprehensive, intellectually integrated & successful than you think.

And here’s also what to do about it.

My first MBP Intelligence piece.

www.mbpintelligence.com/blog/meredit...

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MEREDITH: Trump is Winning, We Need to Start Acting Like It

If Canada is going to survive and thrive in this new era we must start acting like the world has changed, because it has. Key Points: * Trump 2.0 is proving far more capable at implementing his a...

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 6d

Link to NR: www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Government of Canada modernizes its budgeting approach to deliver generational investments - Canada.ca

Government of Canada modernizes its budgeting approach to deliver generational investments

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 6d

Budget 2025 is going to be one of the most significant in 30yrs.

A capital spending plan is precisely how you change the incentive structure to address productivity, and low biz investment.

This is exactly how many businesses and other govts do things.

Time to build

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 6d

Not a great outing for Interim PBO Jason Jacques.

When your 2 past predecessors break silence - it’s bad.

He needs media training and some more common sense to wait and let the Budget do the talking and then pass judgement (critical or not).

#cdnpoli #cdnecon #fiscal #budget2025

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 8d

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The Inaugural MBP Roundtable

Podcast Episode · MBP Intelligence Briefing · 2025-10-04 · 54m

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · 8d

🚨🎙️🎧 NEW POD: our inaugural MBP Intelligence round table episode.

Me, Ben, Ken & @sphillipsab.bsky.social talk

— Trump tariffs
— PBO and fiscal
— NDP leadership
— Parliament return

All policy - no punditry.

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#cdnecon #trump #carney #poilievre

The Inaugural MBP Roundtable

POTUS, PBO, Party leadership and Parliament: The first MBP Intelligence Briefing In the inaugural episode of MBP Intelligence Briefing, Director of MBP Intelligence Ben Woodfinden talks with Ken Boes...

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Carolyn Whitzman @cwhitzman.bsky.social · 11d

For those of you who missed the CUI/Maytree Citytalk last week on scaling up government-built housing with @tylermeredith.bsky.social & Graeme Hussey, the recording is up! citytalkcanada.ca/discussions/...

Tackling Canada's housing crisis: How the federal government can build at scale now - City Talk

Note to Readers: This discussion was created in partnership with CUI's valued partner, Maytree. Cover photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash.

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Michèle Champagne @michhham.bsky.social · 10d

The City Talk panelists were great, all three:
– @cwhitzman.bsky.social
– @tylermeredith.bsky.social
– Graeme Hussey

With @canurb.bsky.social's Mary Rowe.

Tackling Canada's housing crisis: How the federal government can build at scale now - City Talk

Note to Readers: This discussion was created in partnership with CUI's valued partner, Maytree. Cover photo by Scott Webb on Unsplash.

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · Jul 26

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Housing Policy with Butler + Meredith + Moffatt

Podcast Episode · The Herle Burly · 2025-07-26 · 1h 2m

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · Jul 26

🚨 Some cursing, some substance and a pretty rich discussion about housing from me, @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social and Ron Butler @airquotesmedia.bsky.social

Modular 🏡
Immigration
Build Canada Homes
Development $
Taxes
Moving beyond condos
+more!

📺 youtu.be/Ee11JmcbpcI?...

#cdnpoli #housing #cdnecon

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · Jul 21

GERMAN OFFICIALS—ONCE PUSHING FOR A SWIFT DEAL NO LONGER CONSIDER AN AGREEMENT WITH THE U.S. THE MOST PROBABLE OUTCOME.

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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · Jul 3

Post “Big Beautiful Bill” ICE’s budget is almost as large as the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · Apr 24

Polls close in 99 ½ hours.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · Apr 24

In America, health care is big business. In Canada, it’s a right.

That's because workers like the women and men of SEIU provide that care every day.

Together, we’ll build a better health care system — for workers and for patients.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · Apr 23

The good folks at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy have put out their report cards on the major party fiscal plans.

Liberals:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...

Conservatives:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...

NDP:
ifsd.ca/2025/04/ifsd...

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Apr 22

My day is booked solid after 9am, but I'm going to post a few things here that caught my eye in the CPC platform, available here:

canada-first-for-a-change.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/20250418_CPC....

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Apr 22

On the "heroic" growth assumptions that you'd need to underpin revenue growth in the CPC platform:

Mike here has done the work to show what kind of growth you'd need to assume--growth would have to nearly double.

Doubling growth would be great! Cutting EV mandates etc. isn't gonna get you there.

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · Apr 22

The Conservatives are booking anywhere from $3B-10B of additional revenue each year from economic-related growth. The average year sees an additional $6B+ in revenue, associated with 128bps in economic growth.

This is a near doubling of TD Econ's growth forecasts.

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Tyler Meredith @tylermeredith.bsky.social · Apr 21

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · Apr 21

Here are Debt/GDP ratios for three scenarios:

1--PBO baseline.
2--LPC platform (costed by themselves)
3--CPC platform (costed by LPC)

I'll happily update with CPC platform numbers if CPC releases them. But until then it doesn't seem fair that they escape scrutiny. So, I'll go with what I have.

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