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Assessing Canadian Innovation, Productivity, and Competitiveness

Assessing Canadian Innovation, Productivity, and Competitiveness

Canada faces unprecedented challenges in innovation, productivity, and competitiveness. The first step in addressing them is to develop a clear understanding of the Canadian economy’s underlying structure and performance in each area. Policymakers must then tailor strategies for specific industries and technologies instead of focusing on principally on macro factors.

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October 2, 2024|Blogs

Canadian Businesses Are Not Profiteering

Big Canadian telcos, grocery stores, and banks have not seen major changes in profitability over the past four years or compared to their international peers. Rising prices should not be attributed to “price gouging” but plain old inflation.

September 13, 2024|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner Regarding Age Assurance and Privacy

Age assurances are not the only available option to protect children online. But if policymakers are set on mandating age assurance systems, regulation should be limited to high-risk circumstances, avoid inflexible requirements, and be designed to be technologically and commercially agnostic.

September 3, 2024|Reports & Briefings

A Techno-Economic Agenda for Canada’s Next Federal Government

Innovation, productivity, and competitiveness must be top priorities for Canada’s next federal government, not sidenotes or vague aspirations to be addressed with little more than lip service.

August 7, 2024|News Clips

Federal Legislation To Protect Canadians Against AI Harms Could Stifle Innovation and Productivity, Experts Say

Research Money wrote an article about the Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness's recent webinar on the current state of Canadian AI regulation, where to go from here, and what alternative approaches policymakers should consider.

July 26, 2024|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada Regarding Legislated Procurement Targets for SMEs

Legislated procurement targets for SMEs should be a tool to stimulate technology R&D and commercialize Canadian innovations, and not a goal in and of itself. Focusing on firms that develop innovative solutions for government problems will create opportunities for Canadian firms to scale up and drive innovation, productivity, and competitiveness.

July 24, 2024|Op-Eds & Contributed Articles

“Green” Is Not an Economic Growth Strategy

Spurring the transition to clean energy is now widely viewed not just as the key to fighting climate change but also as the silver bullet to restoring economic growth. But it's not. They are separate goals that require separate policies, as Robert Atkinson writes in Research Money.

July 18, 2024|Blogs

The Digital Services Tax Will Not Be Good for Canada

Canada should drop its Digital Services Tax, which will harm Canadian businesses, startups, and consumers and surely lead to a retaliatory response by the U.S. government.

July 17, 2024|Events

How Can Canadian Policymakers Improve the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act?

Watch now for an engaging discussion with leading international experts and peers presented by ITIF’s Centre for Canadian Innovation and Competitiveness.

July 15, 2024|Blogs

Challenges in Assessing Canadian Competition

The Competition Bureau of Canada’s 2023 report assessing the state of competition in Canada has several methodological and interpretation issues that raise doubts about the conclusion's accuracy. As such, policymakers should not use the report as the foundation of competition policymaking or to justify a more aggressive antitrust regime.

June 10, 2024|Testimonies & Filings

Comments to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission Regarding Supporting Content Through Base Contributions

There is no free lunch to be found by imposing base contributions on foreign online undertakings to fund the government’s preferred content. The Commission should reckon with the economic realities of its proposal rather than obscuring them behind anti-foreign rhetoric.

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