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Awakening Canada’s sleeping economic giant

Goldy Hyder’s speech to the Canadian Club of Toronto on October 18, 2023 Why isn’t Canada an economic giant? That was the question the U.K.-based Financial Times asked last month. It argued that Canada’s proximity to the United States and our other […]

Building our future: A call to action

Goldy Hyder Keynote address to Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce May 23, 2023 It’s great to be back in Canada’s heartland and to reconnect with so many familiar faces. You may know that I’m a proud Westerner. Every time I make […]

The United States and Canada – stronger together

Goldy Hyder keynote speech at World Trade Day Denver 2023 Friday May 19. It’s an honour to be here and to kick off World Trade Day 2023. And what a time to be in Denver with the NBA Western Conference […]

2022 Thomas d’Aquino lecture on leadership

Goldy Hyder delivered the Ivey Business School’s Thomas d’Aquino Lecture on Leadership in London, Ontario on October 3,2022 and in Ottawa on November 7, 2022 Good evening.  It is an honour for me to be here to deliver this year’s […]

Securing our future: why we must renew the U.S.-Canada partnership

Distinguished lecture delivered by Goldy Hyder at the 46th annual Canada-United States Law Institute conference on April 21, 2022 in Cleveland, OH The great American author Mark Twain famously noted “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Had I been standing here […]

Goldy Hyder on stage at the Parliament 2020 Conference

Parliament 2020 Conference – The Future of Jobs in Canada Goldy Hyder (Business Council of Canada) and Hassan Yussuff (Canadian Labour Congress) sit down with Jonathan Calof (University of Ottawa) to discuss the skills and trends shaping the future of […]

Goldy Hyder delivers keynote address at Ivey’s MBA Leadership Day

After the keynote address to over 150 MBA students, Goldy speaks with Ivey Business School’s Institute for Leadership on how to build a better Canada and how leadership has changed.

Environment and economy: until death do them part

Delivered by Thomas D’Aquino, President and CEO of the Business Council on National Issues, at a conference on sustainable development in Winnipeg. This address follows in the wake of the formation of a Business Council Task Force on the Environment […]