Article content Canada’s industry minister is preparing for raids on some of Canada’s most promising digital and research-oriented companies in 2021. “I had a lengthy conversation with (Finance Minister) Chrystia Freeland about this,” Navdeep Bains said in a year-end interview. “There’s a lot of economic activity out there. There’s a lot of Canadian tech companies we’ve built over the past number of years. We’ve got to protect those Canadian companies to the extent that they can stay in Canada and scale here in Canada.” We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser.