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MAX Policy is a collection of provocative ideas and policy solutions generated by the minds at the Max Bell School of Public Policy.

A Solid, Unspectacular Budget – With a Few Red Flags

5 Nov 2025

Budget 2025 has a very different tone from most of the Trudeau government’s budgets. There is much less talk of middle-class Canadians and their plight, far less emphasis on the need to implement...

Gisèle Yasmeen on Challenges and Opportunities for Food System Transformation

16 Oct 2025

A number of voices are converging in an urgent call for global action to fundamentally reform the world’s food system, given climbing rates of food insecurity, diet-related disease, and...

The Immigration Debate Within Immigrant Communities

25 Sep 2025

MPP alumnus Aftab Ahmed '23 took time to listen to the viewpoints of immigrants in his community in Toronto.

Canada needs new playbook for relations with China amid Trump chaos: report

26 Aug 2025

Canada should adopt a “selective engagement” strategy to manage dealings with China that could reap more trade benefits from the authoritarian state while avoiding entanglement in the rising...

The U.S. is no longer a superpower

16 Apr 2025

This article originally appeared in The Globe and Mail on April 15, 2025.

Campaign Offers a Confusing Set of Choices on Sensible Climate Policy

10 Apr 2025

For those voters who care about economically friendly climate policy, the federal election campaign has so far offered a confusing set of choices from the two leading political parties. From...

Invisible Hand, Visible Impact: Unlocking the Role of Competition in Reducing Inequality

31 May 2024

This year’s Jack Layton Prize for a Better Canada winning essay underscores the pressing need for policies that foster competition within the Canadian economy.

Chris Ragan: Carbon pricing is a national dumpster fire

22 Mar 2024

The political games being played don’t serve the country. They actively undermine the well-being of Canadians.

Ukraine deserves long-term financial commitment from Canada

27 Feb 2024

Two years into the war, it is evident that “for as long as it takes” will mean years into the future, writes Vincent Rigby and Eugene Lang.

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