November 17, 2020 – A new book from the C.D. Howe Institute provides an overview of the Institute’s critical policy recommendations made in response to the developing COVID-19 pandemic. Read by government policymakers and the public alike, these ideas – aimed at preserving the wellbeing of Canadians and sheltering the country’s economy as the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis unfolded – prefigured many of the policy responses that emerged in 2020. As the extent and seriousness of the COVID-19 crisis became known in March 2020, the Institute rapidly mobilized some of Canada’s foremost academics, business leaders, and policymakers into working groups to tackle the biggest policy problems of the day. The Institute started with four such groups, forming a fifth in the fall: