Time for a bold changes to foster innovation – The Hill Times
By David Crane September 7, 2020
We should, as Barry Eichengreen suggests, use the current economic crisis to spark and accelerate a transition, to replace what has been destroyed and improve our potential growth rate.
Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains. His Innovation, Science and Economic Development department has cast Canada as a rising innovation superstar, but the data tells a different story, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
TORONTO—Much of the speculation over the forthcoming Throne Speech suggests the Trudeau government plans a significant focus on social policy. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his new Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, are said to be of one mind on this.
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With no ‘institutionalized’ emergency response group, the capacity for ministers to tackle pandemics is ‘woefully lacking,’ says Mel Cappe.
‘The problem is without the identifiers, it would be very hard to trace any pattern or trend [on racial disparities],’ says Alok Mukherjee, who served for 10 years as chair of the Toronto Police Services Board.
‘In the pandemic, during the lockdowns, people are using alone a lot more, which is partly why we’ve seen a big spike in overdose deaths,’ says Green Party MP Paul Manly, who also pointed to increases in tainted drugs.
Despite the government’s promise to reconvene the independent review panel, members say they won’t return unless the CSC turns over the data requested to track whether it is complying with the law.
‘The U.K. wants the same deal as the Europeans had—or better. I would sit back and say, ‘Tell me what’s in it for me?’ says trade lobbyist Peter Clark.
The appeal means the STCA is in place indefinitely, say lawyers who predict that the question of whether the agreement infringes Charter rights, as recently ruled, will ultimately be put to the Supreme Court to hear.
Since April 21, Canadian officials have highlighted concern over the situation in Hong Kong in more than 25 meetings and calls with the Chinese and Hong Kong governments.
‘Now there’s a new imperative. Bring that mask production, or ventilator production, or for that matter, generic drugs—bring that back home,’ says economist Jeff Rubin, author of The Expendables.
‘Minister Chagger has been given multiple opportunities to be truthful with the Canadian people. The documents show she played a key role, but she has not told us that,’ says NDP MP Charlie Angus.
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