Budget 2017 was billed as an innovation budget, but was it really?

Without improved productivity performance that comes from investment in innovation, we will not be able to create the wealth needed to sustain our health-care system

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured March 22 inside the budget lockup for the media. Canada is a long way yet, despite some small steps forward, to making Canada 'a world-leading centre for innovation' and achieving the Trudeau government’s 'long-term plan to create jobs and strengthen the middle class,' writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 10, 2017

TORONTO—Budget 2017 was supposed to be an innovation budget. But was it really? And are we much further ahead as a result? The answer to both questions is negative, not positive. We are still far from achieving the Trudeau government’s stated goal to “make Canada a world-leading centre for inn...

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