As the Ontario Legislature’s spring session begins at Queen’s Park today, observers are looking for Premier Kathleen Wynne’s Liberal government to show progress on a large number of substantial public policy priorities, especially at a time where an unprecedented alignment with the federal and municipal governments has
Read more →Canadian business leader, David MacNaughton, selected to become Canada’s next Ambassador to the United States MacNaughton to leave his post as Chairman at StrategyCorp, a public affairs, communications, and management consulting firm, at the end of February 2016 January 16, 2016 – Toronto – David MacNaughton will
Read more →StrategyCorp’s Michael Fenn co-authors a new report from the Mowat Centre how to finance badly needed infrastructure upgrades in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Region. “Given the long inventory of projects that need funding, the recognized need for new investment and historically-low interest rates, we should
Read more →Leadership Team Staff Being Assembled The executive team behind the new Liberal government in Ottawa has largely been assembled. StrategyCorp’s quick reference guide provides an at-a-glance look at the players: Download StrategyCorp’s Quick Reference Guide – which includes Ministers, Chiefs of Staff, Parliamentary Secretaries, and Deputy Ministers
Read more →StrategyCorp was engaged by the City of Windsor to conduct an Economic Development Delivery Strategy. The review focused on ways to improve on the existing structure using the Windsor Essex Economic Development Corporation, a regional organization that provides economic development services across the Windsor/Essex region. To complete
Read more →Windsor will hire a few new staff members to work on local economic development, as the city prepares to adjust the way it interacts with its existing development corporation. At a Monday night council meeting, councillors discussed a 61-page report put together by the consulting firm StrategyCorp that
Read more →Today, the Liberal government tabled its Speech from the Throne, officially opening the first session of the 42nd Parliament. The Speech reaffirmed a number of the commitments the Liberals made in their campaign platform, Ministerial mandate letters, and announcements to date. While the campaign platform and mandate
Read more →For the new Trudeau government, Friday’s Speech from the Throne marks the beginning of workaday Ottawa life – another passage in what many observers expect to be an inevitable slide from postcampaign highs to the morning-after grind of governing. Not so fast. Ottawa’s honeymoon deathwatch crowd may
Read more →StrategyCorp analyzed the 2011 and 2015 raw electoral data to determine how provincial voting turnout and patterns changed between the 41st and 42nd federal elections. Summary: In 2015, Ontario saw a million more voters turn up at the polls than in 2011 In 2015, Quebec, British Columbia
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MacNaughton to become Canada’s Ambassador to the US: News Summary
After more than a decade as StrategyCorp’s Chairman, David MacNaughton is departing the firm, following his appointment as Canada’s next Ambassador to the United States. Over MacNaughton’s 35-year career in business and politics, he has been has been credited with shaping the public affairs industry in Canada.
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