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The embattled federal cleantech agency will be folded into the National Research Council following a damning report from the Auditor-General
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The embattled federal cleantech agency will be folded into the National Research Council following a damning report from the Auditor-General
Sustainable Development Technology Canada has been at the centre of allegations of financial mismanagement and governance lapses
The federal government has also appointed new positions to lead the agency through the upcoming transition.
Beyond the talk about "corporate welfare," there is a smarter debate to be had about what constitutes good industrial policy or bad industrial policy.
Who's really got Ottawa's ear? Paid consultants are everywhere in Ottawa. This so-called 'shadow public service' offers expert analysis at a pretty penny—and never has to worry about pesky accountability (Photo illustration by Liz Sullivan and Drew Maynard) Last May, in what we now know was merely the opening chapter of the pandemic, Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) posted one of the high-level help wanted ads that regularly go up on the federal government’s procurement website. ISED was seeking someone to analyze “key strategic industrial sectors,” model the impa...