Dima

We're culturally broken if we can't stand on our values and morals to hold someone accountable. He isn't ethical. Full stop. If a thief let a senior go, do you forgive him after dozens of crimes? He won't have an ethics committee investigate Telesat funding. The Liberals are trying to reverse the outcome of the Emergency Act. They awarded $90b to SNC-Lavalin. If he wanted change, it would have already happened. What happened to the performance report from his MPs? What happened to the trillions of dollars from the growth conference? How are we more competitive by adding carbon taxes to our oil and CBAM? How are we more competitive when the government continually cherry picks funding and expands government at an ever-increasing pace? How are we more competitive when citizens don't have doctors and we're adding hundreds of thousands of people every year? He holds the most important role in the country with some of the largest natural resources and he weaseled his way into a majority government. Stop giving him another inch. This is just another promise. Hold him accountable.

Before you start celebrating the 2026 Canada Growth Incentive you need to keep in mind that only 2.8% of companies in Canada actually publish products and new IPs. As the data shows below, Canada has 116,000 tech consulting/services providers, compared to only 3,400 publishers. I'm not going to bother trying to explain this with my own words, but it's important to acknowledge that Canada is not the US. The majority of tech companies in Canada simply don't benefit from this model. Yes, it's important to develop incentives that target bootstrapping of the future we need to see. But, our startups require a lot of other supporting incentives to make up for the additional risk, structuring, and funding needed in order to make this program worth-the-risk. When designing policy, it's important to make sure that the environment that exists can match up to the ambition of the program. Unfortunately, the best way to achieve sustainability, find talent, discover what works, and take a few shots on net in Canada, is by working on someone else's dime. Canada simply does not have the capital formation mechanisms in place to spin up startups at the same rate as the US and other hubs. The best way to approach bootstrapping an economy of startups and success stories in Canada would be to provide a path for consulting and service provider firms to (1) learn the landscape of Canadian businesses, (2) achieve some form of success, then (3) leverage their know-how and human capital into new enterprises. The majority of successful tech companies I worked for began as solid consulting and service provider business before receiving funding and spinning out on their own. That would increase the success surface-area by 34x. ------------- Here's the problem: many Canadian tech startups begin as service businesses. Founders take on consulting contracts, build software for clients, and use that revenue to fund the development of their own products before they ever raise venture capital. Yet consulting is explicitly excluded, raising serious questions about how these businesses qualify as they transition into product companies. To put the scale into perspective, Canada has approximately 116,000 computer systems design and related services establishments, compared with just 3,400 software publishers — a ratio of roughly 34 to 1. Those categories generate approximately $113 billion and $28 billion in annual revenue, respectively. These figures don't tell us how many companies are legally ineligible, but they illustrate a fundamental disconnect: Canada's technology economy is heavily weighted toward services, while this incentive explicitly excludes consulting businesses.