Failure to invest in government capacity is a luxury we can’t afford

The Canadian government must have sufficient in-house, or in-government, capacity to address and evaluate changes in the knowledge-driven economy, from a Canadian public-interest perspective.

The small-government era began with the view, imported from the United States and the United Kingdom, that government itself was the problem. Forty years later, having weathered a global pandemic, a technological revolution and the rewiring of the international system, it’s increasingly obvious that government isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution. But only if it has the tools to do the job. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NATASHA TUSIKOV AND BLAYNE HAGGART

April 1, 2021

After years of public concern about the largely unchecked spread of online hate and illegal content on social media platforms, the Canadian government is introducing new rules ...

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