Canada never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, but we better not miss it this time

Building this capacity to implement innovation possibilities, in partnership with the private sector and our university-based research community, is the urgent pre-condition if we are to avoid another missed opportunity—and more than that, lose the chance we now have to build a sovereign and more prosperous nation.

Who is going to address the shortcomings in innovation policy, including access to capital, if our Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is preoccupied with saving the steel, aluminum, and auto industries, asks David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

August 4, 2025

TORONTO—It has been said many times that Canada never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The risk is this could happen again, and at great cost to our future. The opportunity comes from United States President Donald Trump’s malign attacks on our prosperity an...

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