Of course there are Canadian innovations, RADARSAT for example, SIngulair (Asthma), first North American electron microscope, recent advances in Machine Learning at U ot T, the first effective EBOLA vaccine.  Some of this is state funded, some private but as Canada has become increasingly statist our rate of innovation has declined. Even worse is the Canadian state shows little capacity to deploy capital into innovation where it can create further wealth. Rather it prefers  to redistribute existing wealth. 

The American state however, is fundamentally more inclined to direct capital to industrial, scientific and technological innovation as opposed to socialized schemes of nanny state benevolence.   

At any rate,  dairy supply management is the plaything of eastern Canadian quota holders and their government sycophants. We are the worse off for it.