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Canada’s competition law needs to be reformed and modernized to ensure a competitive market.

While Canada spends significantly on research at the federal level, what has been an ongoing problem for decades is the translation of the breakthroughs into viable and sustainable companies for the long term, writes NDP MP Brian Masse.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY NDP MP BRIAN MASSE

May 9, 2022

When the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released its recent report that Canada’s real GDP per capita only increased by a meagre 0.8 per cent a year from 2007 to 2020, ranking us 26th among 38 advanced countries, that was not the worst news. The disaster on the horizo...

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