Canada’s innovation agenda: can moonshots work?

They will work if they put great Canadian products on the front shelf.

We should also heed the warnings of famed Canadian businessman Jim Balsillie, pictured, and ensure our intellectual property protections are up to scratch, writes Elizabeth May.Photograph courtesy AtelMedia Technologies

Opinion

BY ELIZABETH MAY

February 8, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.” —Paul Krugman, The Age of Diminishing Expectations (1994) It is not worth the ink to repeat the ways in which Canada has fallen behind in productivity. We can recite the stats of how w...

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