Industrial policy may be the missing link for Canadian productivity

A more co-ordinated industrial policy that measures results and learns from failure could result in less waste, and fewer bad bets.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne. Some of Canada’s biggest innovations have come from speculative investments underpinned by government spending, writes Steve Lafleur.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY STEVE LAFLEUR

October 21, 2024

You’ve heard the word “crisis” a lot in Canada. Productivity crisis. Climate crisis. Housing crisis. All these various crises are real. Yet there seems to be a lack of urgency about them. Part of it is that these are complex issues, requiring multifaceted solutions. We...

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