Ottawa must completely redraft its innovation strategy

It looks like the feds want Quebec to be like Ontario, whose economy relies on local branches of foreign multinational corporations. But that’s not who we are.
The Montreal skyline. The greater Montreal region has one of the highest concentrations of high-tech jobs in North America.
Multinational corporations tend to concentrate their strategic activities, including research and development (R&D), at or near the head office rather than in their foreign subsidiaries. Since Canada’s economy relies mostly on local branches of foreign corporations, mostly American, structural...

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