How Morneau can make this year’s budget the innovation budget

The Trudeau government’s promise to strengthen the middle class will ultimately depend on improved productivity performance, not tax cuts for the middle class.

In all that Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured, does on innovation, the focus must be on productivity, writes David Crane.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

February 8, 2017

Will Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s 2017 budget be the innovation budget? That’s far from clear. Innovation and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains has launched his own innovation agenda project and may want to save some big ideas for his own report. Now, Morneau’s Advisory Council on...

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