Jim Balsillie
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Well, the government is making the market. It manufactures the assets in the market and it changes them a hundred times a day in the knowledge economy.
Well, the government is making the market. It manufactures the assets in the market and it changes them a hundred times a day in the knowledge economy.
Well, the government is making the market. It manufactures the assets in the market and it changes them a hundred times a day in the knowledge economy.
And you have to have a plan for getting your words in there to advance your specific interests through your advisory councils, which is the opposite of hands-off.
And you have to have a plan for getting your words in there to advance your specific interests through your advisory councils, which is the opposite of hands-off.
And you have to have a plan for getting your words in there to advance your specific interests through your advisory councils, which is the opposite of hands-off.
Okay, so that's a reasonable coverage of our... Yeah, and what bothers me so much about this, you have this country with so much potential. We have brilliant innovators. We have brilliant researchers. We come up with... earth-changing ideas, and we don't capitalize on them. We give them away.
Okay, so that's a reasonable coverage of our... Yeah, and what bothers me so much about this, you have this country with so much potential. We have brilliant innovators. We have brilliant researchers. We come up with... earth-changing ideas, and we don't capitalize on them. We give them away.
Okay, so that's a reasonable coverage of our... Yeah, and what bothers me so much about this, you have this country with so much potential. We have brilliant innovators. We have brilliant researchers. We come up with... earth-changing ideas, and we don't capitalize on them. We give them away.
So our economic structure should be much more like the Scandinavians in the U.S., but our economic structure is much closer to Russia's right now because of this abdication. And so you also mentioned in Google really quickly that the taxpayers in Canada... spent 30 years funding the fundamental artificial intelligence at University of Toronto and in Alberta.
So our economic structure should be much more like the Scandinavians in the U.S., but our economic structure is much closer to Russia's right now because of this abdication. And so you also mentioned in Google really quickly that the taxpayers in Canada... spent 30 years funding the fundamental artificial intelligence at University of Toronto and in Alberta.
So our economic structure should be much more like the Scandinavians in the U.S., but our economic structure is much closer to Russia's right now because of this abdication. And so you also mentioned in Google really quickly that the taxpayers in Canada... spent 30 years funding the fundamental artificial intelligence at University of Toronto and in Alberta.
So the number three AI research center in the world is in Alberta, in Edmonton. Number five is in Toronto. We gave essentially all that away to Google and other US tech companies. So Canada- So what kind of loss is that in economic terms, do you suppose? Trillions. Trillions.
So the number three AI research center in the world is in Alberta, in Edmonton. Number five is in Toronto. We gave essentially all that away to Google and other US tech companies. So Canada- So what kind of loss is that in economic terms, do you suppose? Trillions. Trillions.
So the number three AI research center in the world is in Alberta, in Edmonton. Number five is in Toronto. We gave essentially all that away to Google and other US tech companies. So Canada- So what kind of loss is that in economic terms, do you suppose? Trillions. Trillions.
And you take a trillion away or you take a couple hundred billion dollars of earnings a year on a trillion dollar asset, that's the difference between an enormous budget surplus paying for military and health care and public safety along the way versus a deficit.
And you take a trillion away or you take a couple hundred billion dollars of earnings a year on a trillion dollar asset, that's the difference between an enormous budget surplus paying for military and health care and public safety along the way versus a deficit.
And you take a trillion away or you take a couple hundred billion dollars of earnings a year on a trillion dollar asset, that's the difference between an enormous budget surplus paying for military and health care and public safety along the way versus a deficit.
And better paychecks versus a deficit that is eroding those services.
And better paychecks versus a deficit that is eroding those services.