MBP Intelligence Briefing

In this year-end episode, Ben Woodfinden is joined by Ken Boessenkool, Tyler Meredith, and Shannon Phillips for a wide-ranging policy roundtable reflecting on the most consequential, overlooked, and misguided policy developments of 2025, alongside a forward-looking discussion of what to watch in 2026. The conversation focuses on structural policy shifts across fiscal rules, defence spending, clima...

The MBP Intelligence Briefing delivers exclusive, insider insight into the policies, decisions, and dynamics shaping Canada’s political and economic landscape. Hosted by Ben Woodfinden, Director of MBP Intelligence and Senior Advisor at Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips, the series features weekly conversations with MBP partners Ken Boessenkool, Tyler Meredith, and Shannon Phillips, along with a...

The MBP Intelligence Briefing delivers exclusive, insider insight into the policies, decisions, and dynamics shaping Canada’s political and economic landscape. Hosted by Ben Woodfinden, Director of MBP Intelligence and Senior Advisor at Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips, the series features weekly conversations with MBP partners Ken Boessenkool, Tyler Meredith, and Shannon Phillips, along with a...

The MBP Intelligence Briefing delivers exclusive, insider insight into the policies, decisions, and dynamics shaping Canada’s political and economic landscape. Hosted by Ben Woodfinden, Director of MBP Intelligence and Senior Advisor at Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips, the series features weekly conversations with MBP partners Ken Boessenkool, Tyler Meredith, and Shannon Phillips, along with a...

The MBP Intelligence Briefing delivers exclusive, insider insight into the policies, decisions, and dynamics shaping Canada’s political and economic landscape. Hosted by Ben Woodfinden, Director of MBP Intelligence and Senior Advisor at Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips, the series features weekly conversations with MBP partners Ken Boessenkool, Tyler Meredith, and Shannon Phillips, along with a...

The MBP Intelligence Briefing delivers exclusive, insider insight into the policies, decisions, and dynamics shaping Canada’s political and economic landscape. Hosted by Ben Woodfinden, Director of MBP Intelligence and Senior Advisor at Meredith Boessenkool & Phillips, the series features weekly conversations with MBP partners Ken Boessenkool, Tyler Meredith, and Shannon Phillips, along with a...

In this episode Ben Woodfinden, Tyler Meredith, Ken Boessenkool, and Shannon Phillips unpack the new federal budget. They discuss The economic outlook and why Canada avoided recession even as growth falls Why this is a capital assets budget and what it asks of private investment The new fiscal anchors and how markets are reacting The political risk of long runway payoffs and how to show near-term...

In this episode, Ben Woodfinden, Tyler Meredith and Shannon Phillips discuss: Projects of national interest and how new polling reveals what Canadians really think about building faster while maintaining environmental and Indigenous safeguards Why Bill C-5 could reshape how Canada approves major infrastructure projects The shifting dynamics between Carney’s government , Conservative premiers, and...

In this episode of MBP Intelligence Briefing, Ben Woodfinden, Tyler Meredith, Ken Boessenkool and Shannon Phillips discuss: The “teaser budget” and how Prime Minister Trudeau and Mark Carney are framing a transformational moment for Canada’s economy What the language of sacrifice and “transformation” really signals for Canadians and how it landed with students The political balancing act between f...

In this episode Ben Woodfinden and Shannon Phillips talk with National President of UNIFOR Lana Payne and discuss: Stellantis, subsidies and Trump Pressure 03:02:18 Government Tools and Leverage 05:49:12 On a Team Canada Strategy, and potential divergence between federal and provincial governments 10:36:15 On the Future of the Canadian Auto Sector 22:00:01 On Labour Power and Policy 32:06:10 Unifo...

In this episode of MBP Intelligence Briefing, Ben Woodfinden, Tyler Meredith, Ken Boessenkool and Shannon Phillips discuss: Changes to the timing and presentation of the upcoming Federal Budget (1:08) The latest in pipeline politics with Premier Danielle Smith proposing a new West Coast pipeline and the revival of Keystone XL talks (25:02) The state of Canada's auto sector and the existential thre...

In the inaugural episode of MBP Intelligence Briefing, Director of MBP Intelligence Ben Woodfinden talks with Ken Boessenkool, Tyler Meredith and Shannon Phillips to get their insights into: The ongoing trade war, the return of Trump’s 51st state talk and the upcoming CUSMA renegotiations (1:38). The PBO’s fiscal warnings and the federal fiscal outlook in advance of the first Carney budget (14:45)...