Liberals’ superclusters plan attracts interest from industry, skepticism from others

Industry advocates are applauding the Trudeau government for seeking out new ways to drive innovation in Canada, but a government watchdog says it likely won't work because governments aren't good at predicting economic trends.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says the government's supercluster program is 'really about three words: jobs, jobs, jobs.'The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

June 5, 2017

The Trudeau government’s $950-million plan to foster nodes of investment for burgeoning innovation fields is “rehashed corporate welfare” that will likely fail to generate promised returns, warns a government watchdog group. Aaron Wudrick, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation...

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