Canada predictions for 2022

Read 30 predictions about Canada in 2022, a year that will see this country experience significant change in its politics, economics, technology, culture, and environment. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.

Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A trend intelligence consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends in foresight. This is just one of many possible futures society may experience.

International relations predictions for Canada in 2022

International relations predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

Politics predictions for Canada in 2022

Politics related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

Government predictions for Canada in 2022

Government related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • Critics warn ottawa's new 'luxury tax' on pricey cars, planes and boats could backfireCritics warn ottawa's new 'luxury tax' on pricey cars, planes and boats could backfire.Link
  • Bank of canada expected to push interest rates into restrictive territory.Link
  • Canada Will Impose a New Tax on Private Jets, Yachts and Luxury Cars.Link

Economy predictions for Canada in 2022

Economy related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) adapt current securities regulations to specifically address crypto-assets. Likelihood: 80%1
  • Lift All Boats: The Opportunity in Digitizing Canada’s Traditional Industries.Link
  • Canadians are falling deeper into debt: statistics canada.Link
  • Critics warn ottawa's new 'luxury tax' on pricey cars, planes and boats could backfireCritics warn ottawa's new 'luxury tax' on pricey cars, planes and boats could backfire.Link
  • Canada Will Impose a New Tax on Private Jets, Yachts and Luxury Cars.Link

Technology predictions for Canada in 2022

Technology related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • Lift All Boats: The Opportunity in Digitizing Canada’s Traditional Industries.Link
  • Toronto’s fintech ecosystem on the rise; canadian jet fuel is going green.Link
  • 20 predictions for the next 20 years.Link
  • Robo pot: Aphria says automation key to low-cost cannabis production.Link

Culture predictions for Canada in 2022

Culture related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • Canada commits 95% of foreign aid to gender-focused initiatives that support women and girls. Likelihood: 60%1
  • Granville Island seeks input for redevelopment of former Emily Carr campus into "arts and innovation hub".Link
  • Robo pot: Aphria says automation key to low-cost cannabis production.Link

Defense predictions for in 2022

Defense related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • The government expects to award a contract for a new fleet of 88 fighter jets between 2022-24, with deliveries by the mid-2020s and a fully modernized air force by the early 2030s. Likelihood: 80%1

Infrastructure predictions for Canada in 2022

Infrastructure related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • The province of Nova Scotia opens Canada's first spaceport with backing from US-based aerospace firms. Likelihood: 80%1
  • The controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is completed enabling the transport of crude and refined oil from the province of Alberta to the coast of British Columbia for eventual sale in Asian markets. Likelihood: 80%1
  • The Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion to be completed between 2022 to 2024, thereby enabling a more efficient shipment of crude oil from Alberta to Vancouver and then out to Asian markets. It will also add 590,000 barrels of daily shipping capacity, a 15% Likelihood: 60%1
  • T-minus 1 year until rocket launch site construction starts in Nova Scotia.Link
  • Trans Mountain mobilizes workforce to start pipeline expansion, expects completion by mid-2022.Link

Environment predictions for Canada in 2022

Environment related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • Canada's carbon tax maxes out at $50 per tonne charged to carbon emitters. The provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Yukon, and Nunavut remain the only provinces to participate in this program. Likelihood: 70%1
  • Toronto’s fintech ecosystem on the rise; canadian jet fuel is going green.Link
  • What is a carbon tax, and will it make a difference?.Link

Science predictions for Canada in 2022

Science related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • Robo pot: Aphria says automation key to low-cost cannabis production.Link

Health predictions for Canada in 2022

Health related predictions to impact Canada in 2022 include:

  • Between 2022 to 2025, Canada enacts a universal, single-payer public pharmacare system worth $15 billion that will draft a national list of prescription medicines that will be covered by the taxpayer. Likelihood: 60%1
  • Alberta to become the first province in Canada to regulate psychedelic therapy.Link
  • Liberals, NDP unveil ‘single biggest expansion of public health care in 60 years’.Link
  • Insulin pills could end the need for painful injections.Link
  • Mental Health Has Become a Business Imperative.Link

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January 7, 2022. Last updated January 7, 2020.

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