ABSTRACT
The history of industrial policy in Canada is very different from that in the United States. In 1975 the Economic Council of Canada published a major study that, in effect, reaffirmed the findings of the 1960s for growth Canada needed more-specialized industrial production and could best link it with widespread tariff liberalization at home and abroad. The Economic Council of Canada, although it has a structure that could work for understanding among public, private, business, and labor groups, is less important for consensus building than for the quality of the analyses made by its staff. The market in the United States was large; in Canada federal and provincial procurement was an important instrument of industrial policy. Raw materials and how they are handled are clearly central to Canada's industrial policy. Late in 1978 an interdepartmental Board of Economic Development Ministers was created to integrate federal work on economic growth.
