We’re stuck in much lower global innovation rankings

But no one, it seems, has actually calculated what it would take to make Canada a world leader in innovation.

The Council of Canadian Innovators says in the April 16 federal budget Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured, should allow the Scientific Research and Experimental Development tax credit to boost taxable capital to $70-million.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 11, 2024

TORONTO—There is this persistent Canadian idea that we are poised to become one of the top five innovation nations in the world. When he was industry minister, Navdeep Bains boasted his policies would accomplish this. His successor, François-Philippe Champagne, talks i...

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