Canada Innovation Corporation’s been a long time coming, but there’s ample room for skepticism

The CIC may bring some small economic improvement. But we need a much better picture of what the future needs than Ottawa is currently offering, or maybe even capable of offering, for real success.

Do we really know much more about what the Canada Innovation Corporation is expected to do than when it was first promised in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2022 federal budget now that we have been presented with a 'blueprint' for the new agency? Not really.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

February 27, 2023

TORONTO—A long time coming. But do we really know much more about what the Canada Innovation Corporation is expected to do than when it was first promised in Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2022 federal budget now that we have been presented with a “blueprint” f...

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