Carney Did a Lot This Week. What He Didn’t Do Matters More.
I watched the Canada Investment Summit the way I watch most government showcases: with one eye on the stage and the other on the structure behind it.The stage looked impressive. Prime Minister Carney…
Canada Wrote a Small Business Investment Policy for Businesses That Are Not Small
Canada just announced its biggest capital investment incentive in a generation. I read the fine print. The businesses that employ nearly half the private workforce get the smallest share of the…
Prime Minister Carney Did a Lot This Week. What He Didn’t Do Matters More.
A summit is a speech with better catering. I have spent enough time inside the machinery where capital meets policy to know that before the executives land back home, the commitments are already…
Canada Held an Investment Summit. It Didn’t Discuss Investment Infrastructure.
A government hosted a summit, invited the world in, and called it an innovation strategy. I have watched this sequence enough times to know what comes next — and what doesn’t.I have spent years…
Canada Built an Investment Strategy That Skips Its Own Small Businesses
I have spent years inside the machinery of Canadian capital policy, and I can tell you what I see when I read the Productivity Mega Deduction announced at the Canada Investment Summit.I see a policy…
Canada doesn’t just have a technology problem — it has an ownership problem.
We produce world-class founders, researchers and ideas, but too often the first serious financing relationships are established somewhere else, and the company’s future follows the capital. This short presentation explains why extending Canada’s proven Flow-Through Share model to technology startups could help change that: mobilizing more private Canadian risk capital earlier, helping promising companies commercialize […]
Buy Canadian. Build Canadian. Own Canadian. What the 2026 FTS-Tech Proposal Is Really About
The 2026 FTS-Tech proposal would test a three-year Flow-Through Share pilot to mobilize private risk capital for Canadian technology startups.
Why Is a Headhunter Leading Canada’s FTS-Tech Campaign?
[David Perry followed Canada’s company-building problem upstream—and found a capital system that was starving technology startups before leadership ever got the chance to matter.] Why is a headhunter leading Canada’s Flowthrough Shares for technology campaign? It’s a fair question. David E. Perry has spent more than four decades recruiting executives, not drafting tax legislation. He […]
The Evidence Keeps Arriving: Canada Needs More Private Risk Capital for Technology
We submitted our 2026 pre-budget proposal to extend Canada’s Flow-Through Share mechanism to qualifying technology startups.Almost immediately, the evidence kept arriving.To be clear, this is…
Canada Doesn’t Have an Innovation Problem. It Has a Capital Formation Problem.
We create the talent. We create the technology. Too often, somebody else finances the scale — and owns the upside. Canada is very good at creating things. We produce world-class scientists, engineers, researchers and entrepreneurs. Canadians are building companies in artificial intelligence, quantum technology, cybersecurity, clean technology, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing and other fields that will […]
