House Finance Committee has little to say on huge changes in global technology, industries and competition

If we fail in innovation then we are reduced to a low-dollar economy which means a low and even declining standard of living. The Finance Committee doesn’t seem to get it.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured last month on the Hill. Canada’s biggest economic challenge is to achieve and sustain a high level of productivity growth and we need to do this to support the things we value as a society, such as health care and education, as well as to deliver the prosperity for a rising standard of living, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

January 29, 2018

TORONTO—Canada’s biggest economic challenge is to achieve and sustain a high level of productivity growth and we need to do this to support the things we value as a society, such as health care and education, as well as to deliver the prosperity for a rising standard of living. The best way to ...

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