Canada needs to raise its sustained growth rate of productivity for a better future

The problem, as Savvas Chamberlain, founder of one of Canada’s most successful tech companies, sees it, is that Canada is not creating the innovation-led, high-productivity economy needed to boost living standards.
Innovation Minister Mélanie Joly, scrums ahead of a committee meeting on the Hill on Nov. 3, 2025.

WATERLOO, ONT.—Savvas Chamberlain, the founder of DALSA, one of Canada’s most successful tech companies, is increasingly frustrated by the fading of the Canadian dream among younger Canadians, and the ongoing affordability difficulties many families have been experiencin...

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