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Education:
BA (Mount Allison), MA (Queen鈥檚), PhD (McMaster)

Biography:
Dr. Noah Fry is a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science. Prior to his fellowship, he completed his PhD (Political Science) in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University. His thesis contended that, despite the apparent textual similarities between NAFTA and CUSMA, North America is in a dissociative trade moment that warrants a renewed Canadian industrial strategy. Prior to that, he did a master's at Queen鈥檚 University in Political Studies and an Honours BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mount Allison University. Generally, he researches Canadian and comparative trade policy, public procurement, lobbying systems, political economy, and public administration.

Currently, Dr. Fry鈥檚 research is fixated on social and local procurement (Project title: Buying Better? Buy Social, Buy Canadian and the Free Trade Agenda). Under the stress of a shifting international trade environmental, countries are realigning their purchasing priorities to simultaneously fulfill secondary objectives. This can include environmental abatement strategies, inclusionary hiring and buying local (e.g., Buy Canadian). Yet, international trade agreements have severely limited the space for these heterodox purchasing approaches. How do we manage these competing priorities? How can Canada make the most of a Buy Canadian policy within existing trade commitments? This research project takes up these questions while generating new and sustainable strategies for social procurement.聽

Selected Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Works

• Fry, Noah. Forthcoming. 鈥淏uy(pass)ing Indigenous? Settler Co-optation of the Procurement Strategy for Indigenous Businesses.鈥� Studies in Political Economy.聽
• Fry, Noah. 2025. 鈥淏uy Canadian: policy options for localizing federal public procurement.鈥� Policy Design and Practice 8, no. 4: 519-33. .
• Fry, Noah. 2024. 鈥淐anadian Crown corporations and social procurement: Trade commitments and institutional bricolage.鈥� Canadian Public Administration 67, no. 1: 89-106.
• Fry, Noah. 2023. "Testing the Laurentian Hypothesis: Regionalism and Federal Lobbying Access." Canadian Political Science Review 17, no. 2: 1-22.
• Fry, Noah. 2023. 鈥淟obbying Regulations in New Brunswick: Toward a Political Economic Account.鈥� Journal of New Brunswick Studies 15, no. 2: 1-13
• Fry, Noah. 2023. 鈥淒airy concessions in Canadian trade: a discursive institutionalist account.鈥� Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 29, no. 1: 73-92. .
• McBride, Stephen and Noah Fry. 2022. "Locked in: Canadian Trade Policy and the Declining Liberal Order." In Canada and Great Power Competition: Canada Among Nations 2021, edited by David Carment, Jeremy Paltiel and Laura Macdonald, 25-47. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Graefe, Peter and Noah Fry. 2022. "Le patronat et le nationalisme dans un Qu茅bec conservateur." Recherches Sociographiques 63, no. 1-2: 157-77.
• Fry, Noah. 2022. 鈥淟opsided Lobbying? Regulatory Opportunism and the Office of the Commissioner of Lobbying.鈥� Canadian Public Administration 65, no. 1 (March): 1-26.

Policy Reports

• Trew, Stuart, Kyla Tienhaara, Noah Fry聽and Risa Schwartz. 2024. 鈥淐PTPP: Out of Step with the Times - Submission from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives to the Government of Canada Consultation on the Mandated General Review of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.鈥� Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.聽
• Fry, Noah. 2023. Bye Buy Canada? Evaluating social procurement strategies under Canada鈥檚 trade commitments. Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.聽
• Fry, Noah.聽2023. 鈥淏ye Buy Canada? Social Procurement under and Inclusive Canadian Trade Policy.鈥� Progressive Economics Forum.聽

Professional Affiliations:

Canadian Political Science Association

Personal Website: noahfry.ca