“Some Canadians in the group ask:” Should we move our office? Should we change our approach? ” – said Waselnuk. “But we don’t really know what will happen. If at all, America does not know. Canadians do not want these problems. We just want to get along.”
Alysaa Co, director of Bain Capital Ventures and a colleague from Canada, agreed. She noticed that one of the BAIN portfolio companies, a start-up based in Toronto, has been serving American small companies from the very beginning. Perfectly what he said that the startup would not have to think about this strategy.
Some in a clone syrup gang were poisoned by American and American culture. One of the entrepreneurs who showed AI tool powered to help children learn mathematics, asked the crowd to bake it and brutally convey honest opinions about his application. “Pretend you are from Texas. Or pretend you are Trump,” he said.
Canadian pride and nationalist sentiments are growing, so far Trump began to threaten the northern neighbor of America and took a hard trade line. The percentage of Canadians who claim that they are “very proud” from their country He jumped significantly According to data analysis from data analysis from the Angus Reid Institute, the Canadian Non -Profit organization, in February. When Canada is preparing for national elections in a few weeks, two main political parties emphasize the importance of “Canada First” and defending national sovereignty. Carney’s liberal party, which sank in the polls before Trump’s rhetoric towards Canada, which became shadowy, saw her popularity growth As a prime minister, a former banker, he put himself as the best candidate for the protection of Canada’s economy.
This growing sense of Canadian national pride has also appeared in the technology sector, in which some investors and founders of startups perceive the division between the US and Canada as an opportunity to increase the efficiency and independence of their country. A group of Canadian technological entrepreneurs, including the management of Shopify and Cohere, recently changed a promotional campaign called Build Canada in order to influence the policy of technology, tax reform and immigration. Article in Canadian Betakit blog He informed that these technology leaders were “frustrated by the liberal government and long -lasting problems with productivity.”
“In retrospect, we will look at these American tariffs as an vital waking up [Canada]Boris Wertz, founder of Vancouver version of One Ventures and former board partner in Andreessen Horowitz, said on x At the beginning of February. Canada should diversify international trading partners away from the USA, deregulate inter -vein trade and double energy infrastructure, wrote Wertz. He also took into account “border/difficult to crime” as an element of the meeting.
Canada was a significant source of technological talents in the Silicon Valley, since in 1994 a free trade agreement was introduced in North America, which included an unlimited number of visas for qualified specialists who want to move from Canada or Mexico to the USA. (NAFTA has been replaced by a US-MANS-MANCA or USMCA agreement, in 2020) Canadians who work in technology can quickly tear the names of the founders of Unicorn and other significant characters that come from their native country, including co-founder Uber Garrett Camp, Cofounder Ivan Zhao, cloudlare Michellen. Ericocound Camp Migicovsky – not to mention thousands of Canadian engineers who work on products behind the scenes.