Cultivating growth: Canada’s bio-economy opportunity

The bio-economy offers a path to more productivity by leveraging our domestic resources, adopting innovative technologies and advanced manufacturing capabilities, and building strong, integrated supply and value chains here at home.
We must be more than fishers, farmers, and foresters; increasingly, these roles need to be low-carbon feedstock suppliers into other industries. Only then will we begin to see a shift in our productivity, writes Meaghan Seagrave.

Canada stands at a crossroads. We can choose to remain a nation of raw material exporters, allowing other nations to benefit from our vast natural resources, or we can embrace the bio-economy and unlock its full potential. We must be more than fishers, farmers, and forester...

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