Part I – What is canada@150?

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Message from the Assistant Deputy Minister Co-Champions

From June 2008 to June 2009, 150 early-career public servants took part in a unique and unprecedented experiment. They were given the opportunity to work together to identify and analyze the key policy challenges that Canada will face in 2017, on its 150th birthday, and the implications of those challenges for the federal Public Service.

The project – canada@150 – was an exceptional development opportunity. Launched by the Honourable Kevin G. Lynch, then Clerk of the Privy Council, as part of the Public Service Renewal Action Plan, canada@150 was a laboratory for experimenting with new ways of working in the Public Service and has become a source of ideasinstance, proposes innovative instruments like a revenue-neutral feebate on GST for new residential construction and a sliding commercial land transfer tax based on the building density of the zone. The group focused on urban passenger transportation raises the notion of kilometrage charges as a means of reducing the environmental impacts of motor vehicle traffic in cities.

Greening Canada and the new Economy: Adopting a new Approach to Policy

These high-level approaches – tapping into all that Canada has to offer, and doing so through an integrative, collaborative, place-based, information-rich, and multi-instrument approach to policy development – come together in the form of concrete policy options in a number of different areas. In particular, two broad and connected policy themes dominate many of the papers and provide key insights into how