Government house: Canada

Canada might be “150 years young”, according to one keynote speaker at the Canadian Corporate Innovation Summit in Toronto last month, but it has a wise head on its young shoulders judging by the succession of speakers under Chatham House rules exhorting its businesses to avoid complacency and invest more in innovation.

Two of these speakers, David Johnston, Canada’s governor general, and Tom Jenkins, founder and chairman of the country’s largest software company, OpenText, were promoting…