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🚨 BREAKING Canada’s entrepreneurship rate just hit a 45-year low. IT GETS WORSE. The number of Canadians who actually run businesses with employees dropped 57% since 2000. IT GETS WORSE. VC investment got cut in half in two years. Seed rounds here are 40% smaller than the US. IT GETS WORSE. In 2024, for the first time ever, more Canadian-educated founders started their companies in the US than in Canada. Only 1 in 3 are still based here. IT GETS WORSE. Y Combinator briefly removed Canada from its acceptable jurisdictions list entirely. They sent a message. New businesses created since 2015: France up 86% UK up 40% US up 34% Canada? Flat. 191,000 → 190,000 $66 billion in startup ecosystem value: gone from Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal in five years. We’re not just losing OUR BEST to the US. We’re losing the people who CREATE the jobs. THE BEST PEOPLE ARE LEAVING.

71% of Waterloo's best engineers leave Canada (UWaterloo SE Class of 2022 graduate survey). And nobody riots. In any other country, a 71% talent export rate would be a national emergency. In Canada, it's Tuesday. The problem isn't the people who leave. They're rational. The US pays 2-3x more, taxes less, and builds things that matter. The problem is the people who stay and never ask why the system is designed to make leaving the rational choice. Canada doesn't have a brain drain problem. It has a demand problem. Nobody demands better. Not from the universities. Not from the employers. Not from the government. The best leave. The rest adjust. The cycle continues. Every country gets the talent retention rate it deserves.

Two options: 1. Bitch and moan at gov 2. Build a company in Canada worth staying for No one’s gonna fix this for us

"Canada should be the greatest nation in the world, and settling for mediocrity is not patriotism -- it is giving up on the country. We can and must do better." Couldn't agree more.

Alabama's unemployment rate is 2.7%. Canada's is 6.5%. Alabama now manufactures nearly as many cars as Ontario. How did the one of the poorest states in the US start outcompeting us? The Globe went down there to find out. The short version: Alabama spent 30 years treating economic development like a serious strategy... landing investments, making it fast and easy to build, and clawing back incentives from companies that didn't deliver. Canada spent the same 30 years writing reports about competitiveness and then not acting on them. Eli Lilly just put a $6B pharma plant in Huntsville. That could have been Montreal. Alabama is no paradise. Life expectancy is 74 vs 82 in Canada, minimum wage is $7.25. But there's a line in the piece that stuck with me. In 2007, the Harper government commissioned a competitiveness report. The conclusion as to why it's difficult to take the actions needed to be more competitive: "Canadians do not perceive that there is an imminent crisis." The authors said you'd get the same answer today. I think they're probably mostly right. And as the Globe puts it: "If Canadians remain complacent, the rest of the world will eat our lunch." We're in a crisis, folks. An imminent one at that. Time to get seriously aggressive about the changes we need to make.

"...That's why NAFTA was signed..." "...Nobody knows that - I guarantee most of our politicians don't know why NAFTA was signed today..." "....NAFTA was signed because the U.S. needed energy supply. Their domestic supply was declining at a rapid pace..." "...And they made a deal with Canada - 'Hey why don't you develop that great resource up there called the oil sands - and we'll buy every barrel from you?'..." "...In return for us giving the U.S. access to that resource that needed to be developed - oil sands - they made us a deal on autos and other trade..."

BREAKING: President Trump is privately considering exiting USMCA, the North American trade pact, per Bloomberg.

KENNEDY: If Canada came to the US and said, 'We're going to 0 tariffs on the US, all of them are off,' would you and the president go to 0 tariffs and let Canadian companies and American companies compete on a level playing field? BESSENT: Absolutely not

After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we’ve decided to add Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation. Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations. ycombinator.com/blog/adding-ca…

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“Buy Canadian.” Buy Canadian what? Other than groceries what do you want me to buy that’s made in Canada? A tree?

@SecDuffy @POTUS And most of them will end up being Tesla's!

@SecDuffy @POTUS Why is MAGA so innumerate. The deal is capped at 49,000 Chinese EVs /yr, in exchange for China accepting our agriculture exports again. That's less than 5% of the cars we consume.

.@POTUS is right. Canada will live to regret the day they let the Chinese Communist Party flood North America with their EVs.

@JulianKlymochko Cleanup in aisle 47.

Treasury Secretary Bessent clarified that the threatened 100% tariff on Canadian goods would only be implemented if Canada signed a free trade deal with China. As a reminder, the USMCA prohibits Canada from signing a free trade deal with China. In any event, the recent “deal” that Canada announced with China was the resolution of a trade dispute, in which Canada agreed to lower Chinese EV tariffs in exchange for the reduction of Chinese tariffs on Canola and other Canadian agricultural products. Note that Canada initially implemented 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs in solidarity with the U.S., only to get hit with retaliatory tariffs from both China and the U.S. So, despite initial confusion, it appears that the 100% tariff scenario is off the table for now. x.com/Acyn/status/20…

@jackprandelli Canadians are free to purchase shares in all of those corporations. They're publicly traded. Stop advocating for state oil companies.

🇨🇦 Canada Produces the Oil 💰Others Take the Money 🛢️Canada is pumping a record 6.1 mb/d But the cash mostly flows out. • 55%+ of output controlled by CNRL, Suncor, Cenovus • Exxon: 70% of profits head to Texas • 70% of oil sands effectively foreign-owned • Shell & BP sold, but debt and interest still leave Canada • 97% of exports go to the U.S., locking in the WCS discount #Canada has the barrels and the workforce. What it doesn’t fully control is the upside. That’s the real issue. #oott #Trump

@DeItaone "100% tariff" = immediate TACO.

Trump: 'If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A.'

The first 4 Canadian soldiers who died in Afghanistan were killed by an American F-16 dropping a bomb on them, believing they were Taliban. Canadians were on the front lines. Trump knows "behind the lines", as a 5 times draft dodger.

@SantiagoAuFund It would guarantee a Democratic sweep in the midterms.

Yes. Do you know what 4.5 million barrels of unsold Canadian oil would do to Canadian GDP?

Eight days ago, Trump said the exact opposite: “It’s a good thing for (Carney) to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, he should do that.” This is why officials from around the world tell me they do not trust trade deals with the U.S. under Trump.

@ianbremmer That's a great Q. Now how about those Epstein files?

q: do you know what 100% tariffs on 4.5 million barrels of imported canadian oil per day would do to gas prices in the midwest?

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@Harry__Faulkner No thanks, Howard.

WATCH: U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lashes out at Mark Carney in Davos. "They have the second-best deal in the world, and all I gotta do is listen to this guy whine and complain?" Lutnick says Trump views Carney's speech as "political noise" for his reelection bid.