Jörg Broschek 🇨🇦

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Political Science Prof and Laurier Research Chair | Federalism/Multilevel Governance | Political Economy | (Active) Transportation and Infrastructure Policy | Kitchener/Waterloo Region More at https://tinyurl.com/4pzjpykm

Since he became prime minister just over a year ago, Mark Carney’s approach has been to focus on big announcements supporting infrastructure and economic growth. Absent so far has been a leadership ingredient other modern prime ministers have spent time on: constitutional vision.
Screenshot TKMS announcement from June 11, 2026: "Kiel/Edmonton, June 11, 2026 – TKMS, Heirloom Carbon Technologies and thyssenkrupp Calvion signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on large-scale carbon dioxide removal in Canada. The partnership will support the country’s goal of becoming a global leader in clean-technology exports, generate high-value jobs and stimulate Alberta’s manufacturing sector. The cooperation combines the low-cost, limestone-based Direct Air Capture technology of Heirloom Carbon Technologies with thyssenkrupp Calvion’s expertise in engineering and scale-up, large-scale materials handling, systems-integration and complex plant-delivery. The MoUs create a clear framework for joint investment in Alberta, aligning with Canada’s Industrial and Technological Benefits (ITB) policy. "
Hockey bag
Trudeau-style left-leaning Canadian cultural nationalism had gone out of style. In its place emerged a shallow commercialized patriotism of multinational corporations dolloping maple leaves on their logos.
Figure displaying two different types of Executive Federalism: Cooperative Federalism on the left, Competitive Federalism on the right
New Tim Hortons coffee mug.
Excerpt from paper quote: "It must be developed as a collaborative exercise of federal and provincial governments together. The question then becomes, is it possible to develop a process and a set of mechanisms to achieve it?"
Screenshot capturing PM Carney interview with A. Arsenault on the National on Monday pointing to a picture of a First Ministers Meeting
"Carney’s mandate letter to his cabinet ministers issued soon after he took the reins mentions a “true partnership with provinces, territories, and Indigenous Peoples,” but what does that mean really? What kind of federation does he want to lead as he seeks to transform the Canadian economy?"
Book cover Schultze/Pal (eds.) 1991: The Nation-State versus Continental Integration. Bochum.
Screenshot quote: "Pepin defined the enterprise as follows: ... a strategy is an ensemble of co-ordinated objectives and instru- ments, i.e. policies, programs and institutions. Applied to industry, the term means the proper planning by govern- ment (federal) for the optimum co-ordination of policies and decisions, on the use of all productive resources, in order to achieve defined (and accepted) social and economic goals. The strategy must embrace all sectors of economic activity from re- sources to services but must emphasize manufacturing and processing."
Oped page Ottawa Citizen from August 22, 2005. Headline Western Separatism is Real
Screenshot from Government of Canada website overview Cabinet Committees: Build Canada Committee Chair (Hodgson) and Joly (Vice-Chair)
Figure displaying asymmetrical weight of Canada's emerging industrial strategy - national security, economic security and climate security/decarbonization
From Ontario's "Building Fortress Am-Can": "Complement the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve and further enhance Am-Can energy by rebuilding and enhancing America’s Strategic Oil Reserve to protect both countries, businesses and every-day families from the high-cost consequences of global oil price manipulation."
Screenshot Cover Proceedings of the fall 1978 First Ministers Conference
"The Carney government could easily opt for a two-track approach. The first track consists of items that require immediate action (such as a resolution of trade issues with the US and aid for hard-hit industries) or items where the need for action is generally accepted (such as liberalization of internal trade). The second track is long term. It includes steps to promote a national dialogue, including the creation of something like the Macdonald Commission, albeit with a radical overhaul for the digital age."
Screenshot News Release Ontario Government March 4, 2026: Ontario Secures Groundbreaking National Energy Corridor Agreement
Screenshot add announcing trade diversification to protect Ontario
Iconic train bridge crossing the Grand River in Paris, ON, with two trains.
Picture of the "Rosebud Motel" near Mono in Southern Ontario.
Screenshot Building Fortress Am-Can. Government of Ontario.
Screenshot The ‘scholzing’ meme featuring German chancellor Olaf Scholz, tweeted by Timothy Garton Ash on 19 January, 2023.
Screenshot from German Bundesrat website displaying the meeting schedule for 2026
"The report, compiled by the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS), warns that the US “uses economic power, including threats of high tariffs, to enforce its will and no longer rules out the use of military force, even against allies.” "
Screenshot NSS quote: "Sovereignty and Respect – The United States will unapologetically protect our own sovereignty. This includes preventing its erosion by transnational and international organizations, attempts by foreign powers or entities to censor our discourse or curtail our citizens’ free speech rights, lobbying and influence operations that seek to steer our policies or involve us in foreign conflicts, and the cynical manipulation of our immigration system to build up voting blocs loyal to foreign interests within our country.
Screenshot quote NSS 2025: "Energy Dominance – Restoring American energy dominance (in oil, gas, coal, and nuclear) and reshoring the necessary key energy components is a top strategic priority. Cheap and abundant energy will produce well-paying jobs in the United States, reduce costs for American consumers and businesses, fuel reindustrialization, and help maintain our advantage in cutting-edge technologies such as AI."
Schreenshot quote NSS: "The terms of our agreements, especially with those countries that depend on us most and therefore over which we have the most leverage, must be sole-source contracts for our companies. At the same time, we should make every effort to push out foreign companies that build infrastructure in the region"
Screenshot quote NSS 2025: "Securing Access to Critical Supply Chains and Materials – As Alexander Hamilton argued in our republic’s earliest days, the United States must never be dependent on any outside power for core components—from raw materials to parts to finished products— necessary to the nation’s defense or economy. We must re-secure our own independent and reliable access to the goods we need to defend ourselves and preserve our way of life."
Lawn signs please slow down
"But if I am right, the pipeline will either die — which will give Smith and the separatists an important new grievance — or will be pushed through in a way that is toxic to Carney’s existing coalition and unfair to the formidable Indigenous people of northern BC, who cannot be treated as an afterthought."
"When asked if it was still appropriate to refer to the U.S. as an ally, he didn’t answer the question directly, but said that Canada is “very hopeful that we can get through this difficult time and we can resume the type of relationship that we’ve had with the Americans for a long, long time"
Screenshot Content Section Part 4: The Canadian Dilemma. Possible Ways Out
Book Cover H.G. Thorburn 1984: Planning and the Economy.
Screenshot Letter Council of the Federation to PM, asking for a FMM to address the need for adequate, flexible federal infrastructure investment; PT positions on their respective major projects; the state of relations and negotiations between Canada and the United States; and international trade relations with China and India
Screenshot PMO Press Release/Announcement on First Ministers Meeting today at 11am. At 2:15pm, the PM will attend Question Period.
Letter Council of the Federation to PM Carney
Screenshot book chapter draft, title: The Politics of Decarbonization in the European Union.
"But, despite the competitiveness framing, the strategy doesn’t give much sense of whether the government aims to expand Canadian innovation and commercialization of particular clean technologies. Or how it will try to use the electric-vehicle transition to get the auto sector back on its feet. Or how trade policies could change as carbon tariffs take hold in Europe and elsewhere."
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