Your sentence is so true "The truth is that Canada can never realistically expect to be an alluring locale for biopharmaceutical R&D investment if it is perceived as a hostile environment for the actual end-product of that R&D."
Health Canada is so slow to approve new end products and especially those developed in Canada which are already approved in the US for use. That probably is because if Health Canada approves then the pressure in on provinces would have to approve, provide and spend money on those new products.
I am a senior and feel that their is NO hope for Canada improving health care as too many citizens buy into the Liberals hype that Canada has great free health care. Canada health care usually delivers if you have some urgent medical issue however if not an urgent health issue it can go undetected or unresolved for years until it becomes urgent.
I see absolutely NO improvement in Canadian health care that will come from Carney Liberal government as they are not at all focused on the poor state of Health care in Canada except as you point out holding consultations and producing mountains of more reports. The provinces are also to blame however the Federal government funds health care and as such Federal government should lead and innovate with policies to improve not just stifle with open mind and money for new products that may result in more positive health outcomes for Canadians. The myth of a private Canadian health system that works continues under the Liberals all the while many private options are available for those of us who are fed up and just pay.
Agree 100 % with you Carolyn. IMO It’s the result of a national culture where based on IMF data government expenditures represent almost half (45%) of GDP. Since government expenditures are controlled by politicians and civil servants who are completely risk averse the possibility of government getting involved in research where you have to have losers to get winners is zero. In that environment only the private sector is prepared to carry out investments in research but then if successful they get penalized through regulation, taxation and petty bureaucracy. Not to mention the “boiling frog” Canadian societal culture described by a former Quebec premier.
Canada does - or could have- some advantages in things like natural resource extraction or climate control eg ice breakers.
Unfortunately with the huge expenditures announced in the latest budget the percentage of government involvement in the GDP (Canadian activity) will increase not decrease. And once you get above 50% you IMO are on the downslope to going from a free enterprise economy to a socialist one.
Deferring to a task force is a great way for organizations and governments to give the impression they are doing something while in actual they typically accomplish nothing productive.
I'm not sure who coined the phrase “ your tax dollars at work “, but this just identifies another area, along with infrastructure, resources, transportation, foreign affairs, where Canada, through its bureaucracy, has perfected process over actual results.
My first real job out of university was in an Ottawa Govt department and it only took about a year to realize that my first job was rewriting and expanding my job description, followed by report writing for my supervisor to push up the hierarchy into oblivion.
Your sentence is so true "The truth is that Canada can never realistically expect to be an alluring locale for biopharmaceutical R&D investment if it is perceived as a hostile environment for the actual end-product of that R&D."
Health Canada is so slow to approve new end products and especially those developed in Canada which are already approved in the US for use. That probably is because if Health Canada approves then the pressure in on provinces would have to approve, provide and spend money on those new products.
I am a senior and feel that their is NO hope for Canada improving health care as too many citizens buy into the Liberals hype that Canada has great free health care. Canada health care usually delivers if you have some urgent medical issue however if not an urgent health issue it can go undetected or unresolved for years until it becomes urgent.
I see absolutely NO improvement in Canadian health care that will come from Carney Liberal government as they are not at all focused on the poor state of Health care in Canada except as you point out holding consultations and producing mountains of more reports. The provinces are also to blame however the Federal government funds health care and as such Federal government should lead and innovate with policies to improve not just stifle with open mind and money for new products that may result in more positive health outcomes for Canadians. The myth of a private Canadian health system that works continues under the Liberals all the while many private options are available for those of us who are fed up and just pay.
Agree 100 % with you Carolyn. IMO It’s the result of a national culture where based on IMF data government expenditures represent almost half (45%) of GDP. Since government expenditures are controlled by politicians and civil servants who are completely risk averse the possibility of government getting involved in research where you have to have losers to get winners is zero. In that environment only the private sector is prepared to carry out investments in research but then if successful they get penalized through regulation, taxation and petty bureaucracy. Not to mention the “boiling frog” Canadian societal culture described by a former Quebec premier.
Canada does - or could have- some advantages in things like natural resource extraction or climate control eg ice breakers.
Unfortunately with the huge expenditures announced in the latest budget the percentage of government involvement in the GDP (Canadian activity) will increase not decrease. And once you get above 50% you IMO are on the downslope to going from a free enterprise economy to a socialist one.
Deferring to a task force is a great way for organizations and governments to give the impression they are doing something while in actual they typically accomplish nothing productive.
You got it. As Matt and Jen are fond of saying "The announcement is the plan."
It would be beneficial to the public if you would name names, government departments, and ministers who are responsible. Federal and provincial.
I'm not sure who coined the phrase “ your tax dollars at work “, but this just identifies another area, along with infrastructure, resources, transportation, foreign affairs, where Canada, through its bureaucracy, has perfected process over actual results.
My first real job out of university was in an Ottawa Govt department and it only took about a year to realize that my first job was rewriting and expanding my job description, followed by report writing for my supervisor to push up the hierarchy into oblivion.