To mark M&W’s second anniversary and as part of our mission to drive solutions-based discussion, we reached out to some of the country’s leading thinkers and business leaders for their takes on how to make Canada resilient during this fragile moment for the Canadian economy. We asked: What is Canada’s single biggest vulnerability when it comes to the economy — and how do we fix it?

‘If you look at the Canadian experience, mainly because of a decline in the pulp and paper sector, the annual timber cut has declined by 25 per cent in the last 20 years – but our fire impacts are going up because many of our forests are simply dying,’ says Forest Products Association of Canada CEO Derek Nighbor.

Thought leaders from across Canada exchanged their perspectives on the rural socio-economic landscape at Wednesday’s discussion on Parliament Hill.