Author: Dr. Roger Gibbins
Playing for Keeps: Boosting Western Canada’s Economic Competitiveness in the Post-Recession World draws from the international and Canadian literature on competitiveness, past policy recommendations from Canadian think tanks and commissions, work that the Canada West Foundation has done over the past decade (including the ongoing Going for Gold Project), policy spadework by western Canadian governments, and a survey of 500 western Canadian economic analysts drawn from the ranks of academia, economic development authorities, think tanks and the public service.
This report was written by Roger Gibbins and Robert Roach with the assistance of Saravie Brewer, Owen Jung, Jacques Marcil, and Casey Vander Ploeg. The report was prepared for the 2009 Western Premiers’ Conference.