First budget in years to tackle Canada’s dismal performance in innovation and investment, but we could still fall short: need guardrails

We need to truly transform our economy when so much around us is changing so fast. We need an arm’s length council to independently monitor how well we're doing, what works, and how we can do better.

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, pictured inside the media budget lockup in the John G. Diefenbaker Building on Sussex Drive in Ottawa before holding his press conference on the budget on Nov. 4, 2025.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

November 10, 2025

TORONTO—For the first time in many years, we have a budget that aims at the biggest challenge facing Canada. This challenge is our dismal performance in innovation and investment, the sources of a more compet...

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