{"id":3516,"date":"2025-11-19T09:10:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:26:27","slug":"critical-conversation-on-canadas-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/2025\/critical-conversation-on-canadas-supply-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Conversation\u2122 on Canada\u2019s supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Critical Conversation\u2122 on Canada\u2019s supply chains\n\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

On nearly every measure of international competitiveness Canada is declining (e.g., GDP per capita, logistics performance index, trade and transportation infrastructure).  Much of this comes from underperforming supply chains.  Our transportation productivity has been flat since 2011, after two decades of continuous improvement following deregulation.  With each passing year, the problem has become more pressing.  The recently-announced goal of the federal government to double Canada\u2019s non-U.S. exports in a decade makes improving the performance of Canada\u2019s supply chains even more urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On November 5th<\/sup>, the Transportation Policy Innovation Centre (TPIC) hosted, with the assistance of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation \u2013 North America, a Critical Conversation\u2122 event entitled \u201cMoving Canada\u2019s Transportation Policy into the 21st<\/sup> Century\u201d. This event aimed to build industry consensus for a contemporary premise of transport policy that enables speed and throughput as a primary objective, and relies on principles of system dynamics to achieve it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Marc Rioux \u2013 SPPA Adjunct Research Professor and TPIC Executive Director, Dr. Alan Barnard and Dr. Brenda O\u2019Neill \u2013 Dean of the FPGA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Close to 30 senior executives from private sector organizations across Canada gathered in Richcraft Hall to learn about the Theory of Constraints (ToC)<\/a> from Dr. Alan Barnard, a top international expert in this area. After listening to the introductory remarks of the Dean of the FPGA, Dr. Brenda O\u2019Neill, and a call to action from the Honourable Lisa Raitt, former federal minister and current co-chair of the Coalition for a Better Future, participants applied the ToC to real-life situations affecting the performance of Canada\u2019s supply chains. A what-we-heard report will be presented to Transport Canada with recommendations for changes to public policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Barnard during his presentation on \u201cthe power of removing constraints\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On November 5th, the Transportation Policy Innovation Centre (TPIC) hosted, with the assistance of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transportation \u2013 North America, a Critical Conversation\u2122 event entitled \u201cMoving Canada\u2019s Transportation Policy into the 21st Century\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":3519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[269,261],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-events","tag-public-policy-and-administration"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}