It’s not just the federal government that isn’t that interested in Balsillie’s advice. Most provincial governments couldn’t care less either.
Balsillie said those who thrive in today’s economy own and control intangible assets such as data, AI and IP, and the U.S. has “turbocharged their capture,” but Canada’s economic game plan has stayed stuck in the decades-old “tangible production economy era,” while the new assets of the new economy require different strategies.
It’s going according to plan
No pipelines
No auto industry
No steel industry
Just TFWs, Timmies, Staples, on the phones
Announcements, building faster than every before.
Join EU.
Buy Canada (really anything).
A Gordie Howe bridge to where?
Sell BC LNG to Germany.
Just reverse every Trudeau law/reg/initiative.
So Canada buys LNG from Australia (long route getting here), and may ship to Germany from BC (I suspect that route will be rather long too). Goddamn Liberals!
And in the meantime we are constantly bombarded with ads from the Feds and Ontario saying how great everything is, and getting better going forward! I’d love to know how much these ads cost and whether the advertising firms have connections to ‘government’. No info will be provided here! Not our business.
“…bombarded with ads from the Feds and Ontario saying how great everything is…”
I’m pretty happy to say that I haven’t seen a single one of those ads.
Might be time to cut the TV cord, Steve. Why pay to be lied to?
I hear ya! Most of the ads are during sporting events. Sigh!
Steve record the hockey etc and start watching 1/2 hour in … fast forward through all the shite!!
for the 378th time BLAME WHERE BLAME BELONGS IN THE LAPS AND HEADS OF VOTERS
Reminder that #JimBalsillie used to run Blackberry, Canada’s jewel in the crown. Where’s Blackberry these days? It’s dead, Jim. Sold to the Commies for a buck fifty and a hot weekend in Beijing.
So #Jimmy can say what he wants about the “tangible production economy era” being old and busted, and Big Data being the new hotness. I will merely note that you can’t eat data, and you can’t heat your house with it.
It might be pretty profitable to grow food, refine metals and dig up uranium to run in Candu reactors, not to mention all that juicy oil and coal we could be selling. Them guys building data centers gotta eat.
Agreed.
Ask all the people being replaced by programming if they’re still saying Shop Class is for the Epsilons.
I actually liked my Blackberry. I liked the physical keyboard and I miss it.
But they couldn’t keep up with iPhone and Android. All the Android phones worked on a common operating system that was backward- and forward-compatible. Whereas each model of Blackberry had its own, unique operating system. The app developers simply couldn’t devote enough resources to write new apps for every Blackberry.
You can’t eat data? This will come as a crushing disappointment to elements of the Brent Spiner fan club.
Re-industrialization – The future belongs to makers. Page 13
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025-National-Security-Strategy.pdf
Trump Just Killed Britains’s 100 Year American Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaGlOZOSJ7Q
Off hand I can’t think of anything of consequence manufactured in Canada; and no, snow machines are not a serious business.
Surely the Canadian grievance industry is the envy of the world?