Canada can do better than just being a branch-plant economy

We need to be more innovative. But innovation takes place in companies, and if you don’t have them, you don’t have the innovation. That’s our key challenge.

Federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured in a scrum on the Hill. 'The problem is that Canada is pursuing an alternative economic strategy—relying on foreign multinationals to locate here in return for massive taxpayer subsidies,' writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 10, 2024

TORONTO—Without more Canadian-owned businesses big enough in scale and scope for the global marketplace, it’s unlikely we will become a more innovative country, one that can generate the wealth and good jobs we need to sustain our way of life. Right now, we are ill-equip...

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