Canada needs to create an environment where talent will want to stay

Skills shortages are making it difficult and expensive for innovative companies to find the people they need for growth. The shortage of talent is one of the most pressing issues not only in Canada but in the United States and Europe as well.

Fortunately, the Trudeau government was persuaded to drop its election platform pledge to penalize stock option plans, which are crucial to small companies unable to offer high pay and benefits, writes David Crane.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

July 25, 2016

OTTAWA—Canada has high ambitions to become an innovative high-tech economy, the key to a more prosperous future society that’s able to afford health care and other valued public goods and to provide good jobs for a diverse workforce. Yet skills shortages are making it difficult and expensive fo...

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