Policy Horizons Canada, the Canadian government’s foresight centre, has just published a report entitled Perturbations à l’horizon [Disruptions on the Horizon], available in both French and English, which provides a brief overview (around 40 pages) of a series of 35 disruptions that will, or could, occur in the coming years. The aim of this work is to help decision-makers select the disruptions they should anticipate as a priority.
Policy Horizons Canada, Disruptions on the Horizon: 2024 Report, Policy Horizons Canada, April 2024, 37 p.
Methodology
As a first step, the Policy Horizons team compiled a list of 35 plausible disruptions based on a literature review, interviews with experts and policymakers, and workshops with futurists. This list of disruptions has been classified into five areas: society, the economy, the environment, politics/geopolitics and healt
