>Michael Sabia, former head of Quebec’s powerful pension fund and current chief executive officer of Hydro‑Québec, warns Canada has long lacked the willpower and grandiose thinking needed to spur national projects, and he believes this must change fast in order to transform the country’s economy.
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>“We have an ambition deficit,” he said on stage Monday at Globe and Mail’s conference designed to foster conversation around building a stronger Canada.
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>Fixing the economy, he argued, will involve shrinking layers of regulation that discourage foreign investment and changing how businesses and governments partner with Indigenous communities.
Part of the challenge we have here is that we have politicians at all levels who are more interested in finger pointing and scoring points against each other than they are in working together to move the country forward. The lack of ambition starts, in many ways, at the top.
mxe363 on
blame it on housing and rents. wana go back to school? start a business? well rent is like 2k per month so good fucking luck covering that while trying to do the ambitious thing
7r1ck573r on
Why do they always want to cut regulations…never profits or anything else. It’s easy to bypass regulation when you won’t live to see the effects on the climate…
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>Michael Sabia, former head of Quebec’s powerful pension fund and current chief executive officer of Hydro‑Québec, warns Canada has long lacked the willpower and grandiose thinking needed to spur national projects, and he believes this must change fast in order to transform the country’s economy.
>
>“We have an ambition deficit,” he said on stage Monday at Globe and Mail’s conference designed to foster conversation around building a stronger Canada.
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>Fixing the economy, he argued, will involve shrinking layers of regulation that discourage foreign investment and changing how businesses and governments partner with Indigenous communities.
Part of the challenge we have here is that we have politicians at all levels who are more interested in finger pointing and scoring points against each other than they are in working together to move the country forward. The lack of ambition starts, in many ways, at the top.
blame it on housing and rents. wana go back to school? start a business? well rent is like 2k per month so good fucking luck covering that while trying to do the ambitious thing
Why do they always want to cut regulations…never profits or anything else. It’s easy to bypass regulation when you won’t live to see the effects on the climate…