Good article ....
Instead of profundicating on "innovation" perhaps our media might actually do some investigative journalism and write about actual Canadian examples. Currently Q Wave of Burnaby BC comes to mind - they are delivering Quantum computing systems into R&D organizations working on the next generation of orders of magnitude faster computers and programs. Then there was the demise of the NORTEL R&D in telecom high tech - without so much as a tear from our government who claim to be promoting "innovation" ....