加拿大最具影响力的商业团体之一表示，其成员对总理马克·卡尼更具干预色彩的经济议程的态度正在回暖，他们很大程度上支持卡尼多元化出口和促进投资的计划。
One of Canada’s most influential business groups says its members are warming to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s more interventionist economic agenda, and they largely support his plans to diversify exports and boost investment.
代表该国许多最大公司高管的加拿大商业委员会发现，商界对总理的计划给予了广泛支持，尽管高管们对政府执行这些计划的能力表示怀疑。
The Business Council of Canada, which represents the top executives of many of the country’s largest companies, found broad backing for the prime minister’s plans, even as executives expressed doubt about the government’s ability to carry them out.
超过80%的受访者赞同联邦政府经济议程的总体方向，但大多数人表示他们“对执行情况感到担忧”。事实上，高管们几乎一致认为，政府交付的体制能力“不均衡”或“薄弱”。许多高管将监管复杂性或“繁文缛节”视为加拿大经济成功的最大单一障碍，在选项列表中有59%的人选择了这一项。税收竞争力以19%的比例位居第二。
More than 80% of respondents agreed with the overall direction of the federal government’s economic agenda, but most said they’re “concerned about execution.”In fact, there was almost universal agreement among executives that the government’s institutional capacity to deliver is “uneven” or “weak.”Many executives see regulatory complexity or “red tape” as the single biggest obstacle to Canada’s economic success, with 59% choosing that from a list of options. Tax competitiveness came in second at 19%.
这些调查结果表明，加拿大商界领袖现在对政府介入以促进战略行业的态度更加开放。
The findings suggest Canadian business leaders are now more open to the government stepping in to boost strategic sectors.
约有一半的商业委员会成员表示，他们比2019年时更支持政府干预。不过，他们也承认产业政策的局限性，41%的人表示应该“有选择地使用，并辅以严格的标准和纪律”。另有35%的人表示应该将其保持在最低限度并专注于竞争力。
About half of BCC members said they were more supportive of government intervention than they were in 2019. Still, they acknowledged the limits of industrial policy, with 41% saying it should be “used selectively, with strict criteria and discipline.”Another 35% said it should be kept minimal and focus on competitiveness.
“如果要将高管们的这种情绪描述为民族主义，或者对背离市场原则持开放态度，那就有些勉强了，”该委员会高级副总裁西奥·阿吉蒂斯在一篇关于调查结果的文章中写道，“市场应该尽可能开放，政府干预应该有限。但我们并非身处一个最理想的世界。”这项调查捕捉到了在经历前总理贾斯廷·特鲁多领导下多年紧张关系之后，企业与联邦政府之间不断变化的关系。
“It would be a stretch to characterize the mood in C-suites as nationalist or an openness to retreat away from market principles,” Theo Argitis, senior vice-president at the council, wrote in a post about the survey results. “Markets should be as open as possible and government intervention limited. But we are not in a first-best world.”The survey captures a changing relationship between business and the federal government after many years of strained relations under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
9月，卡尼宣布了一项扩大资本投资税收减免的计划，该政策被称为“生产力超级扣除”。他还提交了旨在简化项目审批并扩大联邦权力以干预某些劳工纠纷的立法。
In September, Carney announced a plan to expand a tax break for capital investments through a policy dubbed the “productivity mega-deduction.”He’s also introduced legislation to streamline project approvals and broaden federal powers to intervene in some labor disputes.
阿吉蒂斯说：“商界领袖在很大程度上支持向注重主权和韧性的整体转变，同时也支持政府越来越多的参与，只要这种参与保持纪律性并专注于为我们的经济吸引更多投资。”
“Business leaders are largely supportive of the overall shift toward a focus on sovereignty and resilience, as well as an increasing appetite for government involvement, as long as it remains disciplined and focused on driving more investment into our economy,” Argitis said.
来自商业委员会的100多名成员，以及来自商业和政策界的约两名其他领袖回应了这项调查。该组织还在加拿大五个城市举行了圆桌会议，数十名利益相关者出席了会议。
More than 100 of Business Council members, along with about two dozen other leaders from the business and policy community, responded to the survey. The organization also held roundtables, which dozens of stakeholders attended, in five Canadian cities.
该委员会的成员包括各大银行、电信公司以及能源和交通运输公司的首席执行官。加拿大国家铁路公司的首席执行官特蕾西·罗宾逊担任董事会主席。
Members of the council include the CEOs of large banks, telecommunications firms and energy and transportation companies. Tracy Robinson, the CEO of Canadian National Railway Co., is the board chair.