Field notes.

Policy Brief

May 31, 2026

Ontario's industrial strategy: aligning provincial mandates with federal R&D procurement

Provincial industrial priorities and federal R&D funding move on different clocks toward overlapping goals. Treating them as one landscape captures value that pursuing each in isolation leaves behind.

Operational vocabulary

May 29, 2026

Writing to Treasury Board standards

A Treasury Board submission is a decision document written in a fixed analytical vocabulary — where the quality of the reasoning, not the ambition of the idea, determines whether a file advances.

Methodology

May 27, 2026

Methodology as strategy: structuring technical proposals for IDEaS and ISED

In competitive federal R&D programs the methodology section is scored hardest. A clear, milestone-linked method beats a more ambitious one whose path to the result is vague.

Defence procurement

May 22, 2026

Industrial and Technological Benefits: positioning within defence frameworks

Canada's ITB Policy turns defence procurement into an industrial-development instrument. Understanding ITB/VP obligations early is the difference between a competitive bid and a merely compliant one.

Regulatory

May 19, 2026

Evidence-grade regulatory submissions: bridging engineering and policy

The strongest regulatory submissions read like technical whitepapers — translating engineering reality into decision-grade policy options that withstand scrutiny.