
Laura Jones
– Executive Vice-President, Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Laura Jones is Chief Strategic Officer and Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), a non-profit association that advocates for 110,000 independent businesses across Canada. She is responsible for CFIB’s legislative, communications, research, and marketing functions.
Since joining CFIB in 2003, Ms. Jones has spearheaded several high-profile campaigns on behalf of small businesses, including creating CFIB’s annual Red Tape Awareness WeekTM and Small Business Every Day Campaign. She has authored a number studies on regulation, including papers for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Mercatus Centre, and CFIB.
Ms. Jones has been providing advice to Canadian governments on effective regulatory reform for more than a decade served on several federal and provincial regulatory committees. Currently, she serves as Chair of the federal External Advisory Committee on Regulatory Competitiveness. She is currently on the board of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and CFIB.
Ms. Jones received her B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, and her M.A. in Economics from Simon Fraser University. She and her husband live in Vancouver with their three spirited children.
Recent Research by Laura Jones
Executive Summary
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Chapter 1: Getting to a Four-Day Work Week Through Faster Productivity Growth
Chapter 2: Towards a More Productive and United Canada
Chapter 3: Barriers to Entry and Productivity Growth
Chapter 4: The Drag on Productivity from Excessive Regulation
Chapter 5: The Importance of Labour Market Mobility to Productivity Growth
Chapter 6: Promoting Productivity Growth by Encouraging Innovation
Chapter 7: Enhancing Productivity Growth by Encouraging Entrepreneurship
Chapter 8: Entrepreneurial Finance and Productivity in Different Institutional Contexts
Chapter 9: Increasing Productivity Through Tax Reform
Chapter 10: Putting Government on a Financial Diet
Chapter 11: Government Size and Economic Growth
View the Infographic: A Fiscal Anchor Will Promote Faster Growth
View the Infographic: Potential Gains From Eliminating Interprovincial Trade Barriers
View the Infographic: Barriers to Trade Harm Growth
View the Infographic: Excessive Regulation Hampers Productivity
View the Infographic: Increasing Productivity Through Tax Reform
View the Infographic: Entrepreneurship
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