Innovation and business investment needed in Canada

With our resource-rich economy and access to education and health care we could be doing better. And we must, because the Americans have put nearly $400-billion on the table for clean growth—and they can continue to outspend us 10 to one.

We’ve had mixed messages from the Bank of Canada, but the latest rate hike is a wallposter. These are not necessarily incompatible messages—just cautious realism that this will take time and there will be bumps in the road, writes CSG Senator Pamela Wallin.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY CSG SENATOR PAMELA WALLIN

June 12, 2023

There is no doubt that inflation has been devastating. Food inflation alone has forced many to choose between food on the table or medicine in the body.

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