OPINION
For finance ministers, the annual budget is the big chance to play Santa Claus, and Finance Minister Bill Morneau was no different in Budget...
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 Trudeau government's Smart Cities Challenge is a good first step, but Canada should learn from examples in the U.S. and the U.K. about where to go from here.