Canada Needs Entrepreneurs

financialpost.com

5 pointsDuncanKinney2 comments

Meh. Kind of a content-free article. And it repeats the old saw about entrepreneurs being risk-takers. The evolving wisdom seems to be that successful entrepreneurs are actually risk-averse. They just happen to be people who can effectively analyze, manage and minize risk.

Indeed, but it points out one thing by glaring omission: while Canada may well need entrepreneurs, why would entrepreneurs need Canada?

More specifically entrepreneurs need a good environment in which to do their thing and as this article mentions, but only a bit, Canada just doesn't provide that environment.

Heck, I had no idea until it was reversed that foreign startup investment was impractical due to needless red tape. That fact and Canada's long delay in fixing it tells you rather a lot.

Also telling are the three suggestions for improvement which are all top-down, governmental sort of things.

BTW, how many top universities in Canada are private vs. public?

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