Getting government to work by putting Canada first

If Canada can’t turn its economy around—can’t match the AI-driven global economy with productivity and economic growth—it won’t just lose its seat at the table, it will be relegated to the shelf in the backroom, next to the old Nortel telephones and Blackberries.

Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne. For the government to extract the benefits of AI, the traditional incremental thinking of cost cutting must change, write Ram Mathilakath and Greg MacDougall.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY RAM MATHILAKATH, GREG MACDOUGALL

February 3, 2025

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