The U.S. is stealing Canada’s future, and nobody seems to notice
In a sharply worded op-ed in the Globe and Mail, Liam Gill warns that “the United States is stealing Canada’s future” by luring away top artificial intelligence talent before Canadian innovators can build companies at home. Gill argues that while Ottawa’s new AI strategy “reflects a playbook built for the internet era — not the AI era,” U.S. investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Y Combinator are already targeting Canada’s brightest minds “pre-company, pre-product and pre-revenue.” He calls on the federal government to “make investing in early-stage talent the cornerstone of Canada’s AI strategy,” or risk losing another generation of innovation — and sovereignty — to Silicon Valley.
