Muammar Gaddafi's UN speech in 2009 is starting to look a lot better in retrospect.

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It would also require a true, encompassing and coherent industrial strategy that could serve as a framework for coordinated federal-provincial-territorial action across policy domains and economic sectors. Something similar to what the EU has been developing since 2019.

There are so many areas where Canada could go on the offensive and strengthen our economy and society by taking advantage of US self-immolation. This is one. Poaching all of US academia/R&D is another. But they all require an activist, high-capacity state, not an austerity-obsessed government.

The time to invest in Canada's future is now. Only the state can play this role. Instead, gov'ts are slashing the university sector. Carney has our civil service focused inward on DOGE-esque waste elimination when they should be developing innovative moonshots to strengthen Canada and the economy.

Canada could help mitigate the damage to US education and global R&D by massively expanding our post-secondary education sector. Unfortunately our leaders see government spending, esp on education, as inherently wasteful, to be minimized, not as investments that create new markets and opportunities.

Keep in mind that this is taken from a Disney production, one that just this week won an Emmy. It may sound vaguely apropos. youtu.be/KYnE2Mxayco?...

Déjà vu!!!

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Good read from @plagasse.bsky.social who correctly points out that contrary to popular belief, the the US does *not* pressure Canada to buy military equipment. In my years in government, most/all of the lobbying was done by European and Asian countries.

"‘Unpredictable’ tariff expansions make it harder to justify U.S. investments, automakers and suppliers warn" 😲 share.google/6aPZVS5A7Wp9...

Trump nixes military aid to Taiwan in push for trade deal and summit with Xi www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Having spent last week in Ukraine, 2 impressions stand out: 1. The US is out, providing no assistance whatsoever, but Ukrainians are diplomatically not complaining. 2. Physically, Ukraine can produce all the arms they need, but to do so they need financing from Europe.

hey so this is insane

Le 2ème table ronde de l'atelier de lundi abordera le thème « Sauver les meubles : gouvernance mondiale du commerce, de la fiscalité et des finances » (13h-14h30) Avec Leonard Seabrooke, Jonathan Fried et @prleblond.bsky.social, sous la présidence de @meredithlilly.bsky.social >>> bit.ly/4m6PBzv

Have you registered for the workshop taking place on Monday? The second panel will discuss “Saving the Furniture: Global Governance of Trade, Tax and Finance” (1pm-2:30pm) Featuring Leonard Seabrooke, Jonathan Fried & @prleblond.bsky.social, chaired by @meredithlilly.bsky.social > bit.ly/3V9kNmY

📣New Policy Brief by @prleblond.bsky.social & Mark Camilleri 📘This policy brief outlines key challenges and strategic recommendations to ensure the Canada-EU Digital Trade Agreement promotes innovation, protects privacy, and supports inclusive digital trade. Read the brief here >>> bit.ly/3Kmct0I

📣Nouvelle note par @prleblond.bsky.social et Mark Camilleri Cette note présente les principaux défis et recommandations stratégiques visant à garantir que l'accord de commerce numérique entre le Canada et l'UE favorise l'innovation, protège la vie privée et soutienne un commerce numérique inclusif

mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree... The McGill University Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in International Relations, with an emphasis on global governance and/or international security.

Focused measures, some reactive in nature, destined to mitigate, some with the potential to have limited long-term effects. I find it difficult though to identify early signs of a coherent industrial strategy based on key policy and governance benchmarks (see🧵below). www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...

"It remains unclear what visas the workers held or whether those allowed them to be on the site." 475 workers detained, huge international incident, and the Trump admin can't even give a basic explanation for it. Would you invest in a lawless country like this?

South Korea's foreign minister is considering a trip to the U.S. to meet with the Trump administration after hundreds of South Koreans were arrested in Georgia at an electric vehicle battery plant.

White Christian Taliban shit right here. Time to stop tiptoeing around it. These people are fanatics pursuing a Holy War. It’s a critical piece of the threat assessment that should inform our strategies. (Psst. They’re not just going to hand back power.)

Percent change in GHG emissions (CO2eq) per year since 1990, G7/EU. 🫣🇨🇦

Chinese inspiration for Canada!

Dangerous thing about LLMs is not that they produce PhD level work. They don’t. It’s that they produce junior researcher level work. Flawed but decent material you can work with. So you ditch your farm team to save money. 10 years later your senior researcher bullpen is empty and you’re cooked 1/3

That said, my past work with Creig Lamb shows that Canadian employers are also serving weak sauce on training opportunities for employees. So any solution to the hollowing out of the next gen researcher farm teams will probably need some external intervention. fsc-ccf.ca/projects/emp...

THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

Here's an early preview of the findings from our multi-year industrial policy project. The world has changed multiples times along the way, but the reality remains the same: there are challenged that neither governments nor private industry can solve alone. policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/09/futu...

More money for the rich and more corruption for the government. It’s win-win for Trump!

According to Tesla’s lawyers, car owners are legally responsible for what the car’s cameras record. 90% of the data collected by BYD cars goes back to China. Fascinating and scary podcast about Project Lion Cage (lnkd.in/dpXFVzaC) by @fraghi.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/g...

I don’t know who writes the Bluesky posts at @bloomberg.com (an AI bot perhaps), but “increased” is the opposite of “pare back”. 🤔

Despite the ruling against him, the president predicts that Supreme Court justices will eventually “help” him save the tariffs. He may be right, for several reasons

Watch this interview with Bessent (start at 9:30 min.)! Bessent says that what the US is doing with its “allies” is essentially using them as sovereign wealth funds, coercing them into investing hundreds of billions in the US (at the discretion of the President). www.foxbusiness.com/video/637684...

I wrote this weeks after trump won in 2016 and almost ten years later I still think there is basically nothing more to say, not because I am super smart but because this is all so very empty and stupid www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bull...

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics. The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s long past time you all stopped using “Congress” when you mean “Republicans”. Not a single Democrat voted for this hot mess of an appointment. This endless grind to maintain a non-partisan tone, despite the partisanship of our fascist reality, is willfully blind, & a betrayal of your country.

Welcome to America’s new reality show: “Survival of fittest and richest”.

In light of the White House efforts to "fire" Fed Governor Lisa Cook, here's a link to a 2024 study I co-authored with David Steinberg (SAIS) exploring, in part, how diversity in the central bank's leadership impacts the institution's popular legitimacy. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats again, everyone

I asked gen AI to suggest fruits or vegetables that have a hard shell with a soft, tasty inside. The idea is to represent an alliance of liberal-democracies creating their own sphere of influence to rival China’s, Russia’s and the US’s. I got two suggestions: coconut and durian. (1/2)

The EU and Canada should not ally with China against the US. China is no more trustworthy than the US. It plays the same power game. Canada and the EU need to lead a Free and Open Alliance of liberal-democracies to create a “sphere of influence” that rivals China’s, the US’s and Russia’s.

There are already LoP legislative summaries that are publicly available. Like this one: lop.parl.ca/sites/Public... As a Minister, you also get unique access to a whole cadre of experts available to answer your questions.

En mai, nous avons organisé une conférence avec AmbCanada intitulée « Trouver la place du Canada dans un monde désordonné » La conférence a réuni d'anciens chefs de mission canadiens et des experts académiques afin de discuter des enjeux cruciaux Lisez le rapport de conférence ici > bit.ly/4fR99X9

In May, we hosted a conference with AmbCanada titled Finding Canada’s Place in a Disordered World. The conference brought together former Canadian Heads of Mission and academic experts to discuss critical issues. Read the full Conference Report here >>> bit.ly/3Hnqevi

1/Great conversation w/ Daniel Kurtz-Phelan @foreignaffairs.com on the weaponization of the world economy. As the economic weapon proliferations, is the US or the world ready? Not if you decapitate the expertise needed to navigate this new world. www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/ris...

This whole thread is worth your time to understand a bit of the complexities of current supply chains and how firms are trying (but maybe failing) to make sensible decisions in the face of insensible policy. Also, all of this is without touching China and international dumping. 1/2

Isn’t it every boy’s dream to own the company that makes the toys???