How should we grow our economy? Statistics Canada is looking for answers

We can't plan improvements to our economy if we can't properly measure it. Canada's statistics agency is looking for new data to help us do that.

Many of Statistics Canada's more than 6,000 employees work in three buildings at Tunney's Pasture in Ottawa. The agency has a plan to improve how it measures Canada's digital economy, among other things, over the next few years. The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

August 23, 2021

TORONTO—Whoever wins the September 20 election will face a big task: creating the good jobs and good health Canadians need and want. While Conservative leader Erin O’Toole confidently declares in his party’s election platform that “Canada’s best days lie ahead,” that will only be true if...

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