When the late Don Dennison was heading the New Brunswick Business Council, him and I had long conversations about the possibility of establishing an independent ‘institute’ to support good economic development policy and economic opportunity development. In fact, the initial idea for what became the New Brunswick Social Policy Research Network (NBSPRN) was that it would be mostly focused on economic policy but when the universities were approached that was a no-go. In fact, I pushed to get an ‘E’ in NBSPRN name (i.e.