The critical issue for Canada is to raise its innovation potential which, among other things, means getting out in front. If we are playing catch-up, as the budget implies, then we will not be a leading innovation nation, no matter how often Finance Minister Bill Morneau says we will be.
The 2017 Canadian federal budget was touted as an innovation-first agenda, and to the delight of the technology community, the Liberal government seems to have kept its word.