Tech sector left out of feds’ COVID-19 rescue package

U.S. tech giants have the financial capacity to buy up weakened Canadian tech companies and their IP, often at fire-sale prices. Is this what Morneau and Bains want?

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured on March 20, 2020, gives an update on the government's measures to help Canadians weather the COVID-19 pandemic. The Liberal government must do more to help Canada's cutting-edge tech companies survive the crisis, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 13, 2020

TORONTO—A healthy federal fiscal position and a professional public service are combining to give the Trudeau government the capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in a pragmatic and flexible manner. This doesn’t mean we should become boastful. We delayed acting and were not as well prepa...

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