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Canada is like the gifted child who straggles near the back of the class, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the Conference Board of Canada.
This country's companies don't think big enough, the economic think-tank said. Canada doesn't invest in higher and adult education and suffers an overall lack of innovation.
How Canada Performs, A Report Card on Canada ranks the country on its economy, innovation, environment, education, health and society against the performance of 16 other countries.
This is the first such report to base its rankings on results, rather than the amount of money funnelled into such areas. Canada compared poorly with most other countries.
"The results were very uneven and very disappointing, in some cases, shockingly disappointing," said Anne Golden, CEO of the Conference Board. "You can trace our poor performance to a failure to innovate in the broadest sense."
Switzerland, Sweden and Finland rated highly throughout the report. Italy f
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