Party platforms ignore intangibles that drive our economy

Without well-funded, publicly-accessible research into the needs of Canada's economy, we won't get a serious public conversation about how to improve it.
Google Canada's research and development office in Kitchener, Ont. Companies like Google invest in the sort of intangible assets that drive the modern economy, writes David Crane.
TORONTO—Think of political party platforms as boxes of lures used by fishermen to catch fish. We, the voters, are the fish and the political parties the fishermen. Each party has its box of lures, and the goal is to hook as many fish as possible. In this election, for example, will green economy ...

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