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The report analyzes the legal framework of Canada's public procurement in the context of international trade agreements, specifically the WTO GPA and CETA. It argues that while these agreements prohibit origin-based discrimination, they provide significant flexibility for incorporating environmental, social, and socioeconomic criteria through performance-based specifications and life-cycle costing. The author concludes that international trade obligations are not a barrier to sustainable procurement and recommends a comprehensive 'Procurement Package' to professionalize the procurement workforce and develop national life-cycle assessment databases to better support clean tech SMEs and climate goals.

The author contends that the Covid-19 crisis demonstrated that capitalism is not synonymous with the market. Drawing on the theories of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, the text proposes a post-capitalist economic model characterized by a stronger 'care economy', the elimination of the capital-labor divide through cooperatives, and the prioritization of local, circular markets over shareholder accumulation.

The text advocates for a transition from capitalism to a post-capitalist market economy, drawing on the theories of Adam Smith and Karl Marx. It argues that the COVID-19 crisis demonstrated the necessity of state intervention and social solidarity, contrasting this with the failures of unregulated capitalism seen in the 2008 financial crisis. The author proposes a model based on three pillars: expanding the 'economy of care' and state regulation, establishing enterprises without capital-labor asymmetry (such as cooperatives), and implementing local markets using social currencies or service-based models to ensure ecological and social stability.