Jon Shell
Entrepreneur and advocate for a more fair and balanced economy.
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Stelco is a teachable moment about foreign acquisitions (opens the original)
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The Stelco situation, where American parent Cleveland-Cliffs is laying off 500 Canadian steelworkers in Hamilton, is a teachable moment about resilience and sovereignty. And it should wake Ottawa up to the downside of foreign investment.<img alt="" class="sizing-norma
A Middle Power Alliance is an Anti-Monopoly Strategy (opens the original)
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It can be hard to see the through-line in the fury of Mark Carney’s travels. To pull ourselves out of the orbit of the United States and to preserve our sovereignty, Canada is making agreements around the world. Yet, each new agreement trades some amount of sovereignty to get something we want.Things finally became clear this week with Mr. Carney’s speech to the European Parliament. For middle powers, achieving sovereignty means breaking free of monopolies. That’s what the fight is really all ab
The Great Canadian Opportunity (opens the original)
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I wanted to call out a particular section of this remarkable Gloves Off interview with former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julie Smith, because I think it points to a risk that the Americans didn’t expect and that may become a huge opportunity for Canadians: that current U.S. actions are making American companies toxic, and that a global wave to look for alternatives has already begun and will last well beyond Trump and the tariff explosion.Here’s the quote (5:45 of the interview):“for those that are
A Time For Ambition (opens the original)
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Middle Powers, Now With Ambition! (opens the original)
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Please take a two minutes to listen to Ursula von der Leyen's vision for Europe's future partnership with Canada. It does something no one has really done before - something that Mark Carney didn't do in his Davos speech - it presents an ambitious agenda for middle power action:* Intelligent manufacturing* Tech Alliance* Integrated defense industrial base* Arctic a flagship joint project* Energy* Critical Minerals* Batteries, Quantum, etc.If you want to flex about the EU being bureaucratic, etc.
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