Canada’s Big Challenges: Morneau’s got bold rhetoric on an innovation agenda, but can he deliver?

‘Every government, it seems, sets out a lofty agenda to promote innovation, just as every government worries about our disappointing productivity performance, mindful of the reality that it is only through sustained gains in productivity that living standards improve.'

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, left, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, release the 2016 Federal Budget, which makes big promises to establish Canada as a global leader for science, technology, and entrepreneurial innovation. P&I Photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 20, 2016

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