We’re laggards when it comes to new digital economy, despite doing many things right

We are not training the thousands of skilled people we will need for success. We are not digitizing our vast collections of cultural material. Our financial structure is failing to provide the risk capital innovators need to start new businesses.

STRATFORD, ONT.—Canadians are using the internet a great deal. As Statistics Canada reports in its most recent survey, 80.3 per cent of Canadians 16 and older—that's 21.7 million Canadians—used the internet for personal purposes last year, compared to 73 per cent just two years ...

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