Canadian Chamber of Commerce has a new president and CEO. Who is Candace Laing?

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has named Candace Laing its caller president and CEO, effective Sept. 1.

Laing has served arsenic chair of nan chamber’s committee of board since 2022 aft joining nan committee successful 2019, serving arsenic its vice-chair from 2021 to 2022. The enclosure said she has resigned from that domiciled arsenic she prepares to return connected her caller job, which will beryllium based successful Ottawa.

She succeeds Perrin Beatty, who will extremity his 17-year tally astatine nan helm connected Aug. 30.

“My imagination is truthful intimately connected to what nan imagination of nan statement is and that’s that thriving business and a beardown system leads to a amended life for each Canadians,” Laing said successful an interview.

She said reddish portion and proviso concatenation obstacles are among nan challenges facing Canadian businesses that she hopes to tackle, noting, “We tin trim that load alternatively of piling connected to it.”

Laing said she besides feels it should beryllium much “attractive” for group to commencement caller businesses successful Canada aliases move existing ones there.

“We request a unchangeable regulatory situation successful bid for that to happen,” she said.

Born successful Saskatchewan, Laing spent 10 years astatine Nutrien Ltd. and its predecessor company, PotashCorp., serving arsenic elder vice-president and main quality resources officer, and arsenic vice-president of sustainability and stakeholder relations.

The enclosure said she was a cardinal personnel of nan integration squad that merged PotashCorp. and Agrium Inc. successful 2018 to shape Nutrien.

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Penny Wise, chair of nan chamber’s CEO hunt committee and vice-chair of its committee of directors, said location was an “extensive hunt that drew a wide scope of candidates pinch awesome acquisition successful authorities and business.”

“We are grateful to each of them for their interest. What group Candace isolated was her acquisition successful some business and nan enclosure activity and her imagination for nan Canadian chamber’s early arsenic a champion for Canadian businesses,” she said successful a statement.

“She has extended acquisition making decisions crossed analyzable organizations, which will thief america build connected our existing strengths and meet nan challenges facing Canadian businesses and families. She is exceptionally well-equipped to partner pinch a wide scope of stakeholders, including chambers, boards of trade, associations, and government.”

Beatty said Laing “understands nan needs of businesses of each sizes.”

“There’s cipher who’s amended qualified to return nan Canadian enclosure to nan adjacent level,” he said successful a news release.

The chamber’s committee is considering adjacent steps to capable nan chair’s domiciled until nan predetermination of a caller chair astatine its yearly wide gathering successful October.