Trudeau government ignoring single most important program to help small, midsize companies

It's the Industrial Research and Assistance Program, or IRAP, which is run out of the National Research Council.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, the minister responsible for IRAP, should be fighting harder for IRAP. The problem is that every new minister for industry would prefer to direct available new funding to his/her own new programmes rather than to strengthen existing programmes that really work and which demonstrably well serve business needs, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

October 23, 2017

TORONTO—How much should the country pay to save Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s political neck and rescue the Trudeau government from a looming political disaster? How about $3-billion over six years? This doesn’t include costly photo-ops across the country to unveil tax changes so that Prime ...

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