MBP Intelligence

The Carney government's AI strategy is a bet that adoption can outrun public anxiety. But the anxiety is broad, deep, and in some places already organized, and the political battlelines are about to be drawn across jobs, privacy, misinformation, and the data centres going up in people'

Mark Carney spent the better part of a year promising a national AI strategy, and on June 4 he finally delivered it — not from a tech hub or a boardroom, but from the floor of Toronto General Hospital. The venue was the argument. This is a government that wants AI

The House has a handful of sitting days left before it rises for the summer, and the usual end-of-session scramble is well underway. But the decisions being made and deferred in these final weeks are setting up what looks like a genuinely volatile fall. The government is trying

The federal Electricity Strategy and the Canada–Alberta Implementation Agreement reshape the policy landscape for renewables—but the real opportunities are provincial, and they vary enormously. Key Takeaways: • The Electricity Strategy is a consultation document, not a spending plan—there are no dollars attached. Its signal that Ottawa will loosen

On May 21st, Premier Danielle Smith delivered a televised address announcing that a tenth question would be added to the October 19 Alberta referendum ballot. The nine questions already scheduled — five on immigration and four on constitutional reform — emerged from the Alberta Next panel process and were first announced in

The May 15 Implementation Agreement has been described as a balanced trade on electricity — but reading the text reveals a federal regulatory exit, a de facto renewables ban through land use, and a carbon price that constrains nothing Alberta was not already going to do. Key Takeaways: * The CEPA equivalency

On Thursday, May 14, Prime Minister Mark Carney released the federal government’s National Electricity Strategy, “Powering Canada Strong,” outlining a plan to double the country’s grid capacity by 2050 and signalling a loosening of the Trudeau-era Clean Electricity Regulations to accommodate natural gas. The following day, Carney

Ontario has been the sleeper province in Canadian politics for the better part of a decade. Doug Ford’s comfortable re-election in 2022, combined with a hollowed-out Liberal Party and an NDP unable to break through, made the province’s political direction feel settled. That has changed.  Recent

Real progress on dismantling interprovincial barriers has been made over the past year, but the hardest barriers remain intact and the federal-provincial momentum that delivered the easy wins is already flagging. If we're going to get big things built, we have to at least tackle the lowest