David Crane

Mark Carney plans to invite the world’s largest investors to a summit in Toronto in September to 'advance Canada’s nation-building projects.' But we need to be more than a branch-plant economy.

Los Angeles police Chief Jim McDonnell and Los Angeles District Attorney Nathan Hochman walk past a photo of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, 14, of Lake Elsinore, California, on April 20, 2026.

The federal government becoming a shareholder in many Canadian companies as it seeks the capital it needs to build planned projects or launch new technologies.

Conventional wisdom holds that the United States can only maintain its economic primacy in the dawning age of artificial intelligence if we build new electricity generation on an unprecedented scale.

Why don't clean energy advocates talk about how it's cheaper than fossil fuels? Affordability, not morality, is the argument that can actually win.

Boosting skilled trades is critical to many of the Carney government’s plans to reinvent our economy. Carney has said that, by 2033, Canada will need more than 1.4 million new trades workers 'to build homes, expand transit and develop energy infrastructure across the country.'

In particular, we need to invest in innovation and build a new generation of large Canadian firms that have scale and scope for global success, with high-paying jobs for workers and wealth generation to sustain and improve public services.

Will we simply hope that our raw materials will sustain our prosperity? Or do we need to become aggressively proactive in building a new knowledge-based economy? The latter will take much greater effort than has been deployed so far.

Canadians who could help Canada become stronger and more prosperous are helping the U.S. when they join U.S. big tech instead.

L to R; Spencer Pratt, Mayor Karen Bass, and Nithya Raman in a mayoral debate at the Skirball Cultural Center on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. (Screenshot from NBC) (Photo by