President Trump has proclaimed that my country should become the 51st state.

We have brilliant innovators. We have brilliant researchers. We come up with earth-changing ideas.

What did we do wrong? What did we misunderstand? And what did we fail to apply moving forward?

So the number three AI research center in the world is in Edmonton. Number five is in Toronto.

We gave essentially all that away to other U.S. tech companies.

I think Trump has made a strategic mistake

because America's got an unbelievable deal from Canada.

You know, we actually have the opportunity to make this country roar

if we choose wisely.

What do you think

needs to be done?

Hello everybody.

This is a podcast that you might think of as primarily for Canadians,

but it's really for anybody who's trying to understand the world where Trump looms large.

It's been a particularly of the last 10 years that Canadian politics

has become interesting internationally, not least because the things that are happening

everywhere in the West affect everywhere else in the West. And so this is a good case and point.

Now, Canada is in a particularly strange position at the moment because President Trump has, first of all, proclaimed that my country

should become the 51st state and also lambasted us with some very heavy duty economic measures

in the form of tariffs.

And this has really put the cat among the canaries in Canada.

And so the timing of this interview with my guest today could hardly be better.

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