# Social Capital Partners: Who owns the economy matters\. We believe working people deserve a fighting chance to build economic security and wealth\. A nonprofit organization based in Canada, we undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and opportunity\. > Who owns the economy matters\. We believe working people deserve a fighting chance to build economic security and wealth\. A nonprofit organization based in Canada, we undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and economic security\. Generated by Yoast SEO v28.0, this is an llms.txt file, meant for consumption by LLMs. ## Pages - [Economic Trends](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/economic-trends/): We undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and opportunity\. - [Home](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/): Who owns the economy matters\. We believe working people deserve a fighting chance to build economic security and wealth\. A nonprofit organization based in Canada, we undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and economic security\. - [Our Work](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/our-work/): Extreme wealth inequality and concentrated ownership of assets are big problems — and getting worse\. The returns from economic growth have disproportionately gone to capital and the owners of assets\. Too many people are not sharing in the benefits from growth\. - [SCP Opinions](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/scp-opinions/): Who owns the economy matters\. We believe working people deserve a fighting chance to build economic security and wealth\. A nonprofit organization based in Canada, we undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and economic security\. - [News](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/news/): Who owns the economy matters\. We believe working people deserve a fighting chance to build economic security and wealth\. A nonprofit organization based in Canada, we undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and economic security\. - [Research](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/research/): We undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and opportunity\. - [Always Canada\. Never 51\.](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/never51/): The Never 51 series outlines policy solutions to the economic and geopolitical threats we face\. Each of our proposals is practical, enhances our economic sovereignty and is in the interests of workers, smaller businesses and the vulnerable\. - [About](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/about/): Who owns the economy matters\. We believe working people deserve a fighting chance to build economic security and wealth\. A nonprofit organization based in Canada, we undertake public policy research, invest in initiatives and advocate for ideas that push back against inequality and broaden access to wealth, ownership and opportunity\. ## Posts - [Strategies and democratic practices to build community wealth](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/building-community-wealth/): Building on lessons from a roundtable at DemocracyXChange 2026, this joint report from the Atkinson Foundation, Social Capital Partners, and DemocracyXChange provides strategies and democratic practices to build community wealth\. - [BANC committee submission on SME financing](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/banc-committee-submission/): Canada can continue treating its financing monoculture as inevitable, or it can follow the lead of peer jurisdictions and intentionally build the institutional diversity required for a different outcome\. The status quo produces predictable, cumulative exclusions that compound over time into lower productivity, narrower entrepreneurship, weaker community resilience and entrenched inequity\. - [Social Capital Partners' 2026 Federal Pre\-Budget Submission](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/social-capital-partners-2026-federal-pre-budget-submission/): Budget 2026 should double down on the ownership agenda\. - [Mark Carney's Davos speech is a manifesto for the world's middle powers](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/carney-davos-manifesto-middle-powers/): Mark Carney's recent speech at Davos matters because it treats this moment as a rupture, not a passing disruption\. It’s in this rethink, write Matthew Mendelsohn and Jon Shell, that there is also relief: “From the fracture, we can build something better, stronger and more just,” Carney said\. “This is the task of the middle powers\.” The world's middle powers are not powerless, but we have been acting as if we are, living within the lie of mutual benefit with our outsized and increasingly erratic neighbour\. Without the U\.S\., the world's middle\-power democracies are rich, powerful and principled enough that we can unite to advance human well\-being, prosperity and progress\. - [From Guidelines to Action: Feedback on the proposed Merger Enforcement Guidelines](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/from-guidelines-to-action-feedback-on-the-proposed-merger-enforcement-guidelines/): The Competition Bureau's proposed Merger Enforcement Guidelines represent meaningful progress against trends towards corporate consolidation in Canada\. In our formal feedback submission to the bureau, Social Capital Partners outlines that we strongly support the new guidelines\. ## Tags - [The Ownership Solution](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/tag/ownership-solution/) - [economic inequality](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/tag/economic-inequality/) - [home ownership](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/tag/home-ownership/) - [profits](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/tag/profits/) - [Housing](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/tag/housing/) ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://socialcapitalpartners.ca/sitemap_index.xml)