Canada sits on unimaginable natural wealth, yet projects take over a decade to clear environmental assessments. We have effectively replaced resource development with 131,754 federal regulations, driving billions in capital and top talent out of the country. Are we willing to cut the red tape and finally build our future?
Canada is a rich country making its own people feel poor. The generation that built everything — the homes, the institutions, the wealth — is still sitting at the head of the table. The gates are warm and glowing. The inheritance is real. The problem is nobody's leaving anytime soon.
Canada has every advantage a nation could ask for — and has been quietly squandering most of them. The math is unforgiving, Norway is watching, and seventy per cent of our best builders already left. But pressure has a way of clarifying what comfort obscures. The rewrite starts now. Hold the pen.
For two decades, SaaS companies built empires on a beautiful, locked-in logic: make switching painful, make customization limited, make implementation expensive. The lock-in was the product. Now AI has destroyed that calculus — and over half a trillion dollars in market value has quietly disappeared to prove it.
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