CHARLEBOIS: We don’t lack ideas in Canada—we bury them in red tape

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois writes: “Canada isn’t losing food innovation because of a lack of ideas—it’s losing it because we’ve made approval more exhausting than entrepreneurship.”

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By: Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

Sylvain Charlebois is director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University, co-host of The Food Professor Podcast and visiting scholar at McGill University

Ottawa’s latest Spring Economic Update included a quiet but consequential signal: a willingness to rethink how Canada regulates …