When will Canada finally invest in Canadian companies?

The Trudeau Liberals continue to be a government with a 'branch plant' mentality that seems more at home supporting foreign multinationals than it does advancing our own home-grown companies.

From left: Pekka Lundmark, president and CEO of Nokia, sits next to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne at an event in Kanata, Ont. on Oct. 17 to announce the expansion of the Nokia Campus on March Road.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

October 24, 2022

This was designed as another one of those win-win events. Nokia, the giant Finnish telecommunications company, was announcing a big new investment in Ottawa’s 'Silicon Valley' North. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was there to cheer this on, declaring, “this is about building a strong economy and...

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