Many nations in Southeast Asia, Europe, South America and elsewhere, and the U.S., understand that the intangible economy is not a production economy of co-operative trade. It's a rentier economy wherein somebody is the landlord and somebody is the tenant. Nobody's going to look after Canada. Nobody's going to be our economic partner, because nobody is anybody's economic partner in this system. It has to be us looking after ourselves. I've not seen a country with more potential pay less attention to this than Canada. The South Koreans are doing sovereign compute. All the Europeans are doing it. They're doing the AI governance. South Americans are doing their own payment rails and systems. There's a big contention on the compute and digital sovereignty the Mexicans are doing. The U.S. of course....
I'm really concerned about our lack of attention to this as a country. It's moving fast, and we're putting negative points on the board, not even a positive point.