Lack of innovation isn’t Canada’s problem—it’s the lack of adoption

This country has ample creativity and invention, but we’ve been chronically ineffective in actually adopting innovative new products and services.

Unless we Canadians change our approach to the adoption of innovation, our current trajectory is ominous and our health-care system unsustainable, write Cameron Groome and Ken Hughes. Pexels photograph by Pavel Danilyuk

Opinion

BY CAMERON GROOME, KEN HUGHES

August 5, 2026

We believe this should be the golden age of medicine, driven by Canadian innovations.

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