Canada once had an ‘at the time’ super-modern steel industry. Stelco and Dofasco were on the leading edge of steel making tech, using the most advanced for-the-time automated systems. But they fell behind European and Asian technology, became inefficient, and essentially closed up shop. If Canada us to be competitive, we need to completely rethink how we do things. For instance, here is an example of the newest steel making technology that is carbon-friendly, and Canada needs to take a serious look at it.
This is the type of investment needed in Canada.
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/sweden-green-hydrogen-powered-steel
Remember when the cool phones were Canadian?
Ex-Nortel employees remember.
Nortel think more recent RIM. They had the phone and just let it go because they didn’t think the iPhone without a keyboard would be a threat.
The problem was allowing Apps to run on the smart phone and still maintain the tight security of the Blackberry. Security lost to Apps, and look where we are now?
This would be real handy these days:
ATI Technologies
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Technologies