Growth is the new mantra

But there is a big risk that the growth summits and conferences will focus on the wrong solutions and ignore the areas where change is most important.

These shoes are made for walking: Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured April 6, 2022, buying her budget-day shoes at the Rideau Centre in Ottawa. David Crane argues that the federal government's big growth challenge will be how to reform our institutions so that we can accelerate the transition to an economy based on ideas and intangibles, which is where a new growth agenda must focus.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 25, 2022

TORONTO—Get ready. We are going to be blitzed with growth summits, growth conferences, growth speeches, and growth strategies. The federal budget, enthusing that, “we can be leaders in the economy of today and tomorrow," while adding reassuringly that, “as the global economy changes, Canada ha...

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