Once the election is over, the much harder work begins

Promises are one thing, but successful implementation with promised results are quite another. High expectations without the capacity to deliver is the big risk.

Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Both the Liberal and Conservative platforms promise to spend billions of dollars to create a Canadian version of the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a US$3.5-billion program that is credited with funding much of the initial research that spawned the information and communications technology revolution as well as many advances in aviation and space, materials science, and telecommunications.The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia and Cynthia Münster

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

September 20, 2021

TORONTO—Once the election is over, the much harder work begins. Promises are one thing, but successful implementation with promised results are quite another. High expectations without the capacity to deliver is the big risk. Both the Liberal and Conservative platforms promise to spend billions o...

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