Canada

“These limitations are coming around in Australia and Canada and the UK. They'll probably appear in other places.”

“Three of the top AI institutes in the world are in Canada. One's in Montreal. It's called Mila, around Yoshua Bengio who has invented deep neural nets, as well as the one in Toronto around the Vector Institute, which is Jeff Hinton, who is a Nobel Prize laurea…”

“Yes, we were in Canada, so it was not a big market for kind, and until 2012, Taste of Nature was much larger than kind in Canada.”

“In Canada, we're the number two brand. In the US, we are number six and the fastest growing brand in the category, whereas, you know, we have ambition to get to number two.”

“Places that in theory ought to be, you know, a sort of standard theory should be having trade deficits because of their investment needs, actually having surpluses, and sending you know, buying financial assets, rather than borrowing, their net lending to plac…”

“Canada, By far has the deepest and richest resource of economic gas in the ground, but it's been trapped behind pipe.”

“I think you are going to see, I suspect, a far less radicalized youth aging into the voting rolls in those three countries.”

“Ryan, who joined from Canada, we have a team of people joining from Canada, they're all moving to Sweden, and he vibe coded an app to help everyone migrate. So like very specifically, if you're Canadian, these are like all the laws and all the steps you take, …”

“We've got a geospatial software platform that detects and tracks all fires in the US and in Canada. We're agnostic in the data that we plug in. It's everything that from satellite data to weather data to camera data to fire service data.”

“We are self-sufficient on potash. From a Canadian standpoint, they are the biggest producer and exporter in the world. We are mostly self-sufficient on phosphate as the spring season has shown. UAN and anhydrous, both nitrogen products, we produce almost all t…”

“I think Canadians massively overfit to niceness. Like it's kind of a best thing and a worst thing in a country is like to prioritize niceness. Because it's like, I mean, it's certainly pleasant, but the problem is it leads to unkind lies, right? Like it's like…”

“60% of people, more than 60, I think the numbers have gone up since, and people think that the United States is the largest risk to Canada, like, much larger than, like, Russia or China would be.”

“There's been one winning strategy in Canada's history which is win by helping America win.”

“We've got, yeah, certainly hundreds of years of supply in the ground. U S has supply. We have active mining in the U S Canada has even more supply, higher grade ores enough to supply us for a very long time. Same as Australia. And then Kazakhstan's a huge depo…”

“They have way more oil deposits than we do, way more oil reserves, but they have on the order of a third of the production, and in part, because they have absolutely terrible policies, which are their fault, but in part, we have had terrible policies, includin…”

“It's interesting, a Canadian publication, The Globe and Mail, came out yesterday and says, Canada needs nationalized public AI, and Toby, the greatest Canadian entrepreneur in history, says, deranged drivel, in response.”

“Canada is incredible because you can get this education and it doesn't saddle you with this debt that you can't overcome, which is not true in the United States for many people.”

“Tim Hortons is a brand of a magnitude that I almost want to say that I'm unsure whether it exists in the U.S. It's just so, so large, the brand in Canada and so important for the Canadians”

“So housing, affordable housing, I think is the single biggest social problem, certainly in America, probably in Canada right now. Because so many other social problems that might seem bigger than that are downstream of housing. A lot of the drug problem, the d…”

“I've seen reports, at least in Canada, that 30% of the price of a new home is basically government fees.”

“Fruit Loops was making cereal for Canada, where the petroleum-based dyes were banned, and a different Fruit Loops for the United States for American kids.”

“We spend 14,000 14,000 per capita per year on patients in the U.S. So that, that's like a rough spend. That's two to three, two and a half to three, like Germany and Canada spent as an example.”

“And what we've allowed to happen over the last decade is that the government has said the Canada has no national identity. We're a postmodern, post-nationalist state, and there's nothing that binds us together. And as a result of that and mass migration on lev…”

“And, you know, I, I've said very clearly, I will be cutting foreign aid.”

“I find it appalling that we had 2.2 million people lined up at food banks, that we got a return of scurvy in Canada, or one in four kids are going to school hungry.”

“The liberals have been bringing in a million people a year, growing our population almost three percent while our housing stock grows by one percent. Our job market grows by about the same and our availability of doctors and nurses grows by about That one or t…”

“The doubled housing costs. So young people can't even come close to making a down payment. You know, it takes to your late, in your late thirties to afford a down payment.”

“There are temporary foreign workers who are making less than the, in reality, less than the prevailing wage and driving wages down and jobs out.”

“There's also, I think, some very exciting things we can do, like get rid of capital gains tax. When you reinvest in Canada, the government's going to get its pound of salt one day anyway. Eventually you'll fully cash out and you'll want to enjoy Everything you…”

“Whether we like it or not, and I like it, oil and gas is the single biggest net export in this country, period. And there's nothing that is even close.”

“You got one pipeline to Northwest British Columbia that the liberals blocked and that I'm pushing for that would move a million barrels and 30 a day and thirty billion dollars a year overseas. That would be the single biggest boost to overseas exports in the h…”

“We just have to get it to coast, liquefy it, put it on ships, send it over to Asia and Europe, where it goes for four times the price that it, that we pay for it here.”

“And I think you'd have more leverage in that negotiation if you had done, if we do unblock the other world markets that await us.”

“Here's Mark Carney, the guy who moved his corporate headquarters to the US, who has 90% of his assets in the US who You know, he, Carney dodges his taxes in Canada by putting his, putting them in the Caribbean.”

“And we've seen it with the Stellantis deal, where we're in for fifteen billion dollars, and Stellantis is cutting jobs in Canada. Fifteen billion dollars for one company. That works out to almost a thousand dollars for every Canadian family in taxes for a comp…”

“All of that indirection, trying to celebrate everybody's heritage, confuses and slows that country down. And you can see it in the GDP. You can see it in the FDI, foreign direct investment.”

“Conversion rates aren't entirely favorable for SaaS companies, and so when you have pent up demand, the most valuable dollars are coming from the U.S., and so, you know, it doesn't make sense to take on Canadian clients, and we have a backlog of U.S. Clients t…”

“And then recently we went to Canada for the Glen Gold Foundation. They invited us, and they all played. It's such a great moment to see kids from corporation schools taking your flight, going to Canada, And playing for, you know, billionaires sitting there.”

“It's very much veered into socialism under, under Trudeau. He pushed that very, very hard I am very much hoping that, ah, Mark is helping all of Canada to figure out that that's a successful discovery of something that doesn't work, because obviously that kind…”

“It has in the ground basically as much, like, it's number one, two, or three on every single resource that is of value in, in the in, in the next manufacturing buildup age”

“I think it can be richest country in the world if it chose so, and it just needs to make a decision that it wants that”

“Since then, we've really bootstrapped it. We've been profitable, which has been really great for a beverage business, but we can't really grow that way, but now we're in about a thousand stores across Canada.”

“I don't know if he realizes it, but he probably single-handedly changed The number of people speaking out in Canada on the election, because he started having an opinion, having a voice, and that, that sort of made it safe for other people to have an opinion, …”

“He built the largest farm fruit farm, basically, in, in the world, and he's built the largest, largest private telecom company in, in the country.”

“Native Canadians are encouraged to kill themselves at government expense for non-terminal illnesses up to and including economic distress. And that's sponsored by the government. It's called the Maids Program.”

“So I think there's a lot of companies in Canada and around the world that are interested in working with non-American tech companies. And I would say that's been an asset for us, right?”

“Yeah. Maybe north of the border.”

“Eastlink became the first cable company in Canada to offer telephone service over cable. First in North America to bundle internet, phone, and TV into one package. The first to let customers add or drop channels in real time.”

“Just go nicher. Create an AI property management voice line for Quebec. Or Canada. Or, you know, with a specific type of brand.”

“Just in the US and Canada and Australia, you have everything we need. We have every element that we need. So that is not the issue. We have the technology to go do these things.”

“I just started managing a fund out of Canada. Where they pool investor income in, and they put them towards different artworks of different calibers, artworks of 25,000, artworks of 250,000. And I'm managing that fund and so far it's doing really well”

“What a lot of people don't realize is a huge percentage of the world's apparel, of the American apparel brands had set up fulfillment in Mexico and Canada. To do the same thing, only they would do ocean freight from wherever the goods are made, deliver to Mexi…”

“Our venture capital industry is more nascent than that in the US. Some LPs and major allocators actually consider Canada to still be an emerging market within this asset class.”

“He built one of Canada's largest fleets with over 4000 vehicles.”

“Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada are all on track to do this.”

“And we were very fortunate and excited that in 21 we were raised what, for the very short period of time, was Canada's largest Series D round valuing Trulieu just over two billion. Canadian.”

“We're a five-year-old startup. We are in 40 states in the US. We're in Canada. We're in Hawaii. We're in Haiti. We process thousands and thousands of workers a day.”

“I feel like their diplomatic system like knows how to play the kleptocracy game much better than Canada or Europe. You know, they got their reps and sets when it comes to dealing with, you know, family dynasties and whatnot.”

“Canada has a lot more capital flowing into mining than the United States does today.”

“Kellogg's makes fruit loops with carrot juice and watermelon juice and ships them across the border to Canada and ships them over to Europe. They make the same product with petroleum based dyes here in the U S.”