Reimagining Recovery

Learn about the policy work and events that are helping to lead our region’s recovery.

Driven by our mission and informed by our members, Reimagining Recovery is rooted in expert insights, designed in collaboration with government and industry leaders, and organized around six priority work tracks essential to our shared success.

Recovery Summit Series Work Tracks Steering Cabinet Get Involved

As the COVID-19 pandemic presents the world with the biggest public health crisis of our time, it also poses significant economic challenges – starting with the shuttering of our businesses, and now as we navigate a safe and strategic return to work.

To help businesses build back better, the Toronto Region Board of Trade is putting forward a framework for economic recovery – the Reimagining Recovery Framework. Guided by a Steering Cabinet comprised of senior government and industry leaders from across the Toronto region, it consists of six work tracks that will help inform government policy, and will culminate with the Recovery Summit Series taking place over the course of fall 2020 and winter 2021.

Scroll down this page for more information about the summits, work tracks, and Steering Cabinet.

Recovery Summit Series

Over the course of a three-part virtual Recovery Summit Series, the Toronto Region Board of Trade will convene leaders and city-builders from across the region to discuss how to foster strategic partnerships and build back better.

Reimagining Our Workforce Summit – February 25, 2021
Join us as we address how the Toronto region can harness talent for recovery.

Transportation Summit – November 25, 2020
Leaders from the transportation industry gathered (virtually) to discuss the Toronto region’s transit systems, and the role it can play in regional recovery. View highlights.

Regional Recovery Summit – September 22, 2020
Leaders from across the Toronto region convened to discuss our economic recovery. View highlights.

Work Tracks

Work Tracks led by business and policy leaders will investigate six areas toward a consolidated vision for our economic future. The work of each of these tracks will help inform all three levels of government.

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Track One: Recovery Stages
How do we re-open businesses and what conditions need to be met before a return to our physical workspaces?

Track Two: Sector Recovery Plans
How does re-opening and economic recovery differ by sector and what supports do they need?

Track Three: Retrofitting Our Urban Region
How do we retrofit and redesign our physical spaces, buildings and infrastructure in a new COVID-19 reality?