Canada must be more ambitious in supporting key industries

In developing a new continental strategy, Canada will need to carefully manage our trade relationship with China, which is vying to usurp America as the world’s technology-intensive manufacturing powerhouse.

François-Philippe Champagne oversees the innovation file at the federal level. We don’t need industrial strategy like it used to be. But we do need to be much more strategic about industry, writes John Stackhouse. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOHN STACKHOUSE

March 31, 2021

Canada’s largest trading partner enters the 2020s with an ambitious agenda, which could reshape our nation’s prospects for prosperity in the post-pandemic economy. How we adjust our trade, investment, and business policies in the coming months will be critical.

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