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Trudeau Meets Bezos in San Francisco. Here's How Canada Is Doing on Tech

  • Toronto still in the running for Amazon’s second headquarters
  • Business R&D is down from 2015 peak; VC funding boomed in 2017

Justin Trudeau

Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg

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Technology and innovation is at the center of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s economic vision for Canada, so his visit to San Francisco on Thursday is as much about symbolism as it is about drumming up new business.

Trudeau, the first Canadian leader to visit the city in years, meets Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, no doubt hoping to bolster Toronto’s bid for the company’s second headquarters, as well as chief executives from companies such as EBay Inc. and salesforce.com Inc.