Jim Balsillie
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218 appearances
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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What's that? It's the quality of your paycheck per worker.
Catastrophic, catastrophic.
Could happen this year.
Well, as I've said, rhetorically, we become Puerto Rico without a passport. We'll be very poor in terms of quality of life and what we can buy and no political representation, no clout. And we have a beautiful country that both you and I love, but it's an expensive country. So if you don't have the prosperity, you can't pay for the health care, the transportation.
The public safety, the social services, the heat, all the things that we value being a prosperous, sophisticated country. And we've seen those come under stress in this last era. Okay, so let's detail out that a little bit. It's expensive. It hurts a lot when you don't do well in this.
Yes, that's all correct. Yeah, and one in a quarter Canadians have food insecurity now. Define food insecurity. Well, there's metrics on it, but basically they're not able to provide, they're skipping meals or children are unable to be fed what they need. So you're not secure in providing the food to your home. Okay, so one in four.
Yeah, that's really, and food bank lines have doubled, and these things, these are terrible consequences of economic policy and attention. Yeah, it really hits home.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, and in, I mean, in the United States, they have, you know, the White House has an office of IP, you know, it has an IP caucus, and they have, and he said he's a very, he runs a global IP, international IP association that everybody knows.
Yeah, and he says all these other countries have IP attaches, but he never comes across an IP attache of Canada.
Pharmaceutical and Hollywood and agriculture and finance. It's every sector's an IP business.
And changing it to their favor.
And then inserting it into quote-unquote trade agreements that don't say trade. You can look at the million words of the USMCA. You would not find the words free trade in it. But they use them as instruments of regulatory remote control to extract the rentier economy to their home country's benefit. Okay, USMCA, detailed out. That's Canada's trade agreement signed under Trump.
six, seven years, five years.
It's an instrument for regulatory remote control. Yes.
They set the rules for how we manage our IP systems, regulate our health care, put in standards, how we manage, who we can, how we do our macroeconomic policies, who we can do trade agreements with.
Yeah, it's a seeding of democracy, for sure. And it also had a provision to sunset it in six and a half years, which created a chronic instability, which has come home at this time, literally. And I was... trying to explain that this is actually a ticking time bomb for Canada.
I was writing and articulating that if you read the agreement, it's none of the celebration that's happening in the economic discourse in the media of the country, that this is going to erode our prosperity, which has happened, and it's going to come back with a bomb to supersize the erosion of that prosperity. Well, you have to read the agreement. Wow. And you have to understand it.
Yeah, but I read agreements for a living. That's what I do all day. These are legal economic contracts. That's what you do. Okay, so let me drill down. That's what I do.
Okay, so let's delve into that a little bit to make it concrete. Yeah, but what's interesting about that is that was... Our government invited Google to privatize our largest city, government of our largest city, under the Google Sidewalk Labs.
Yes, is that? Yeah. Can I wind this back and walk into it? So you ask Canada's, we talk about Canada's original sin and how we got there. So in 1989, and I will work into this because you see the original sin. In 1989, we signed the original Canada-US free trade agreement. And that was liberalizing all these things. That was leg one. That was leg one.
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