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Steve Maynard

Steve Maynard

Managing Partner, Government & Public Sector at EY Canada, based in Halifax, and a guest on the Good Question podcast.

Sep 18, 2026

20:29
In terms of what you're hearing and the policy that needs to support it, Are we in a good place? And I guess it's a bit of a fuzzy question, really, but are Canadian businesses feeling confident enough right now to be the ones that step up into this sort of, you know, the optionality that's in front of us? Or are we going to let other players come in?
20:48
I think that there's enough investment opportunity to go around, is the short answer.
20:53
Certainly, we believe and it's essential that Canadians invest in the Canadian economy.
20:58
If Canadian business don't have confidence in the Canadian economy, they will not invest.
21:02
And there are certain assets that, frankly, I would imagine that the government of Canada is not really that interested in having a significant or controlling interest by a foreign investor.
21:15
And I expect that to be clarified this fall, things like the airports and other things.
21:20
I expect that there's really, you know, the thing about the Canadian pension funds is, to take one example, their first accountability is to their pensioners, to you and me, those that are going to earn a pension, who've worked hard their whole lives.

14 MINS LATER

35:34
It's sort of like a yes and, if we can get on the other side of that.

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