Cabinet hell-bent on your input

The instinct to ask Canadians is understandable. Will the outcome be healthy? It depends.

By my count, Navdeep Bains is the fourth industry minister (as people in his office used to be called) to launch an innovation agenda since the turn of the century, writes Paul Wells. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY PAUL WELLS

August 8, 2016

OTTAWA—Canada must be a nation of innovators. "684 ideas for #CdnInnovation," Navdeep Bains, the federal minister for innovation, science and economic development, wrote on Twitter on Aug. 1. "Have you submitted yours yet?" Bains added a link to the website for the federal government's "Innovatio...

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