Canada needs some visionary corporate leaders

There remains a dearth of serious business leadership and a continuing expectation on the part of business that it is up to government to pay companies to be entrepreneurial and innovative.

The Business Council of Canada recently called on Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland to 'embrace a demand-side, mission-driven approach to innovation policy' by creating an agency similar to the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 15, 2021

TORONTO—These cautionary words from a visionary corporate executive, written almost 50 years ago, are worth reading as we struggle to build a more innovative business sector today. The concern of the CEO of one of Canada’s largest corporations was that Canada was at a serious disadvantage in a ...

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