Toronto’s waterfront project should not be left to a deep-pocketed American tech giant

Do we continue along a path that sees Canada as a colonized economy using our own talent and skills to generate prosperity benefits for others or are we ready to rethink our innovation policies to focus on the knowledge-based economy, building new Canadian advantages for our own portfolio of intangibles for our own future prosperity?

Perhaps no decision better illustrates today the choices facing Canada and its future competitiveness and prosperity than who gets to develop Toronto’s waterfront and benefit from the intellectual property, technology development, and scaling up of companies that the multi-billion-dollar project will generate, writes David Crane. Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

July 1, 2019

TORONTO—Perhaps no decision better illustrates today the choices facing Canada and its future competitiveness and prosperity than who gets to develop Toronto’s waterfront and benefit from the intellectual property, technology development, and scaling up of companies that the multi-billion-dollar...

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