Time for a bold changes to foster innovation

We should, as Barry Eichengreen suggests, use the current economic crisis to spark and accelerate a transition, to replace what has been destroyed and improve our potential growth rate.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains. His Innovation, Science and Economic Development department has cast Canada as a rising innovation superstar, but the data tells a different story, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

September 7, 2020

TORONTO—Much of the speculation over the forthcoming Throne Speech suggests the Trudeau government plans a significant focus on social policy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his new Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, are said to be of one mind on this. We should aim for a fairer and more inc...

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