The Canadian Unicorn Who Stayed
John Stackhouse talks to Fred Lalonde, co-founder of Deep Sky and CEO, in the latest episode RBC’s Disruptors podcast. Stackhouse asks “What do you think Canada needs to come to grips with most critically to ensure we get a better trajectory of economic growth and that we help companies and entrepreneurs like you take on the world but scale a lot faster here at home than we’ve seen?” In response, Lalonde says Canada is the richest country in the world because of our natural resources and we need to “hunker down” when it comes to AI, climate and energy. “We need to be building our own sovereign energy. We need to be dealing with our emissions. We’re not good at wind farms. We have no tech. We’re dependent on the Chinese, the Europeans. We have nothing on solar,” he says. “Our nuclear program, like every program in the world is in shambles because we gave up on it. You know what we’re really good at? Really, really good at? Drilling.”
