CARPA diem: seize the innovation

Canada will need more than a well-funded advanced research agency if we want its work to turn into innovation and sustainable economic growth.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pictured in Ottawa on Jan. 12. Instead of $950-million spread across five superclusters, the Liberal platform promised that the Canada Advanced Research Projects Agency will launch with an initial endowment of $2-billion. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BENJAMIN BERGEN

February 2, 2022

It can be hard to cast your mind back to the halcyon days of 2015 and 2016, but I remember it fondly. In the early days after the Liberal government took office, there was a real sense of excitement around innovation in Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went viral for a video explaining quantum...

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