Dear Minister Champagne, Canada needs all the help we can get

Building a new defence industrial base, with a core of advanced Canadian companies with global prospects for their technologies, is an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. So we must be sure we don’t.

The response from Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured, sounded promising. The industrial benefits policy, Champagne said, reflected “the importance of fostering homegrown innovation and developing our industrial capacity, given industry’s critical role in supporting Canada’s national security,' writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

December 9, 2024

TORONTO—We clearly need new and better jobs. This means we need Canadian companies with growth potential, their own technology and new export possibilities. Innovation-led growth is our most important priority. This is how we will build a more optimistic confidence in...

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