Canada dropped to 17th among developed countries for innovation performance.
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GM will use the $6 billion it saves by shuttering plants to enter the driverless and electric car markets.
Ontario raised its top personal income tax rate by 3.1 percentage points, preventing up to 2,158 new businesses from starting.
Ontario needs policies that encourage Ontarians to spend more energy and imagination working and innovating.
Regulators continue to downplay the deleterious impacts of their rules.
U.S. pharmaceutical innovation has been disproportionately funded by U.S. consumers of patented drugs.
If more innovation programs were all we needed to solve our innovation problems, they would have been solved a long time ago.
Government-sponsored venture capital initiatives tend to underperform compared to initiatives funded by the private sector.
By reducing the rewards of investment and entrepreneurship, governments in Canada have discouraged the very activity they profess to encourage.