Eighteen ideas on how to kickstart the Canadian economy
The government needs to create an economic council to deal effectively with the opportunities and challenges of the global economy on the IP, data and AI front, says Jim Balsillie.
“An Economic Council would provide the government with the research, expertise and capacity to produce policy agendas for the array of evolving and cross-cutting competitiveness and security issues Canada faces,” he said. “Staffed with experts from the public and private sectors who understand how the nature and structure of contemporary firms have changed, it would also help governments navigate modern trade agreements, which have since the early 2000s become less about liberalizing trade through tariff reductions and more about regulatory remote control, technical standard-setting and spreading monopolies.”
Balsillie was one of 18 business leaders featured in the Report on Business, which asked “for some big ideas on how to not just keep up, but to thrive.”
