Driving Great Lakes Priorities Forward: Inside Great Lakes Week 2026 – Washington DC.
A Strong Start to the Week Great Lakes Week has a way of bringing the region’s shared priorities into focus, and this year’s gathering in Washington, D.C., was no exception. Leaders, advocates, and policymakers from across the region came together to elevate the issues that matter most to the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence, and CGLR […]
In Charge of CDP Reporting for Your Company? 4 Pieces of Advice
Used to reporting financials as business as usual, companies are now being called upon to disclose their impact and approach on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors that materially affect their business. CDP—also known as the Carbon Disclosure Project—is one of the leading frameworks. The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) is widely regarded as the ‘gold […]
An Untapped Resource
For over 200 years the people of Canada and the United States have peacefully shared and benefited from our wonderful communal resource, the Great Lakes. Though we have a mutual commitment to open societies based on democracy, human rights and personal economic freedom, we do have differences in political structures, taxation, regulation and appropriate levels […]
Council of the Great Lakes Region (Canada) Announces New Board of Directors
OTTAWA, ON and CLEVELAND, OH / January 12, 2022 – The Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR), a Canadian not-for-profit forum of business, government, academic, and non-profit leaders committed to working across sectors and the Canada-United States border to strengthen the bi-national Great Lakes region’s long-term competitiveness and sustainability, is pleased to announce that […]
The Great Lakes Region:
Our Competitiveness.
Our Sustainability.
Our Future.
Today, this region of the United States and Canada is home to 107 million people living in iconic cities like Milwaukee, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Toronto, and Montreal, making it the 12th largest nation in the world by population, if it were a country. Encompassing eight states, from New York to Minnesota, and the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, this region forms 75% of the 5,525-mile (8,891 km) border between the two countries.
Untapped Opportunities: Regulatory Cooperation in the Great Lakes
This report provides a rational for regulatory cooperation within the binational Great Lakes Region and proposes some potential first steps to initiate a dialogue between New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ontario and Quebec.