Freeland’s first budget must set Canada on a strong investment-innovation growth path

The budget must signal how the government will better focus its investment and innovation policies to achieve clearly stated goals. This is a necessity we cannot afford to ignore and will be the most important test of the budget. In the meantime, other countries are racing ahead.

Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured Sept. 15, 2020, at a press conference in Ottawa. The reality today is that we are not up to the challenges of a much more competitive global economy and failure to respond will mean a stagnant standard of living and an inability to afford the things we need to do as a country, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

February 15, 2021

TORONTO—Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s first budget must set Canada on the strong investment-innovation growth path that we urgently need. The reality today is that we are not up to the challenges of a much more competitive global economy and failure to respond will mean a stagnant standar...

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