March 28, 2018 – CDIC celebrated 50 years in 2017. To mark this milestone, CDIC asked C. Ian Kyer, author, historian and lawyer to look back at the people and events that have shaped CDIC since 1967. The story actually begins before confederation, more than 100 years before CDIC was established.
From Next Best to World Class: The People and Events that Have Shaped the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1967–2017 (PDF), captures the rich history and political and economic context of how and why CDIC came to be and the events and circumstances that contributed to building CDIC from the ground up.
We invite readers to dive into this historical treasure.