Silicon Valley of the North already exists

If Ottawa doesn’t adjust its program to reality, we should conclude that belonging to Canada is harmful to Québec, whose economy is definitely more future-oriented than that of Canada, which is still tied to the 20th century even if it refuses to admit it.
In the early months of 2009, as the auto industry was collapsing, the Harper government invested $10-billion to save GM and Chrysler, in addition to creating a $500-million innovation fund for the automobile industry. Rather than dispersing the resources in a vain attempt to develop car industries a...

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