If we can’t do better, we will not be able to afford the Canada we want

So despite Industry Canada claims of success, much more heavy lifting—and much bolder thinking—is needed. Modest gains will not be enough. As a country, we should follow the words of Virgil in The Aeneid, written in the first-century BC: Audentis Fortuna invat (Fortune favours the bold).

It's time to be bold: Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, many of the government’s innovation initiatives have not been new initiatives but additional funding for existing programs, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

May 10, 2021

TORONTO—In running for election in 2015, the Liberal Party said next to nothing about innovation and the challenges Canada faced in moving into a knowledge-based economy. So it came to office with little thinking or awareness of the urgent need to transition Canada to a new more productive and mor...

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