Jim Balsillie

It's an instrument for regulatory remote control. Yes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.