Ricardo Chejfec

Ricardo Chejfec is a research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, leading the Empowering Canada’s Workforce program. He also helps lead the Community Transformations Project, aimed at supporting workers and communities through the low-carbon workforce transformation.

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Le Premier ministre Mark Carney, debout derrière un pupitre, regarde la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, assise à sa gauche, alors qu’il s’adresse au Parlement européen.

Nine years under a European trade agreement show tariffs were only the starting point

Vue aérienne de l'usine, avec son groupe de bâtiments longs et bas et les bassins de goudron situés à proximité des quartiers résidentiels de Sydney.

Why Canada’s nation-building moment demands a skills revolution

Dozens of workers carrying signs and union flags.

It’s time to put Canada’s employment insurance program on solid footing

The global energy transition could disrupt 10 per cent of Canadians

High-quality training programs needed to weather labour market disruptions

Will Employment Insurance reform worsen labour shortages? Not likely

Looking up at man in hardhat and orange safety vest who is standing on a concrete platform with a larger concrete slab above him. He is talking to two similarly clad men who are standing in a small metal cage lifted up by machinery. They are several feet lower than the first man.

To reform Employment Insurance, Ottawa must change the way it is financed

How to fix Canada’s broken employment insurance program

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Employment Insurance Reform: Where Can Canada Go?

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