Setting Canada’s global technology agenda after COVID

Canada has the potential to re-establish its global technology leadership in niche areas and in setting global standards and governance.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is pictured in the West Block on Feb. 2. Canada should look to align its domestic innovation policy agenda with today’s geopolitical realities, write Stewart Beck and John Knubley. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STEWART BECK, JOHN KNUBLEY

April 6, 2022

New technologies are now a foundation of the global economy, with two titans—the U.S. and China—duelling over technology leadership. Both threaten to decouple the governance and infrastructure of the world’s digital technologies, creating separate supply chains they plan to dominate. After the...

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