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Toronto’s waterfront project should not be left to a deep-pocketed American tech giant

Do we continue along a path that sees Canada as a colonized economy using our own talent and skills to generate prosperity benefits for others or are we ready to rethink our innovation policies to focus on the knowledge-based economy, building new Canadian advantages for our own portfolio of intangibles for our own future prosperity?

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BY DAVID CRANE
July 1, 2019

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