Can Carney ensure Canada is a true innovation nation?

Canada’s poor performance on innovation is apparent in the World Intellectual Property Organization's 2025 Global Innovation Report which ranks our nation in 17th spot, compared to 14th a year earlier.

Prime Minister Mark Carney. While Canada has potential, the World Intellectual Property Organization's 2025 Global Innovation Report says it lags badly on high-tech exports, creative outputs from the business sector, industrial designs, trade marks, and other forms of intellectual property, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

October 20, 2025

TORONTO—Mark Carney ran to become prime minister on the promise of delivering a strong but new economy that would generate the growth, innovation, and productivity needed to bring on good jobs and improved living standards, including more affordable housing, bett...

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