The Industry Strategy Council, like the Business Council of Canada, and other groups offering advice, are, like the government itself, failing to provide the analysis we need for policies that would actually make a difference. That’s a big problem and dooms us to second-best policies.
The panel of representatives from industry sectors selected by Industry Minister Navdeep Bains, pictured Nov. 9, 2020, is the latest to give the federal government advice on how to rebuild better as we move beyond the pandemic.
TORONTO—We like to see ourselves as an innovation nation, a global leader in everything, from the digital economy, and clean-tech, to advanced manufacturing, the biosciences, and now even electric vehicles.
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