It’s now permissible to talk about industrial strategy

This matters because it is through the new ideas that drive innovation that we advance.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne. Canada is doing a poor job of converting new ideas into innovation, yet it is through the ownership of those ideas and innovations, in patents and other forms of intellectual property or intangibles, by Canadian companies, that 21st century value will be created for Canada.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 5, 2021

TORONTO—You might say that we are making progress of sorts in figuring out where our future jobs and wealth will come from in the post-pandemic world. It is now permissible to talk about industrial strategy—the idea that government has a key role to play in raising the level of innovation in ...

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