Canada needs to invest in innovation, investment, and productivity, and it’s urgent

Canada faces deep and difficult challenges that could take a decade to overcome. The test for Chrystia Freeland’s upcoming budget is to be honest about our circumstances, and budget the priorities right, not deliver another exercise in self-congratulation and misguided optimism.

The staff economists from the International Monetary Fund are quite clear on what Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured Sept. 15, 2020, should do in her first budget.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

February 22, 2021

TORONTO—The staff economists from the International Monetary Fund are quite clear on what Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland should do in her first budget. In a concluding statement after the IMF's most recent survey of the Canadian economy, it warns that “structural challenges that existed pri...

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