Canada’s next innovation strategy needs to prioritize export diversity, startups, and defence

In the next wave of bold innovation initiatives, the government needs to narrow its priorities, focus on getting results, and place good implementation at the strategy's centre.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne on the Hill. The IRPP’s Rachel Samson and Steve Lafleur outline three priorities that could help refocus existing government spending, and galvanize the public and private actors needed to prevent a trade war.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY RACHEL SAMSON, STEVE LAFLEUR

February 3, 2025

Canada has spent billions of dollars to commercialize innovations and to

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