The co-founder of Blackberry, Jim Balsillie, joins veteran policy adviser Robert Asselin and National Post’s John Ivison to discuss the problems with Canada’s traditional and arguably outdated approach to innovation, trade and competitiveness — and why it leaves us dangerously vulnerable to U.S. economic power.

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The man credited with remaking the smartphone industry with Blackberry in the early 2000s says Ottawa’s decision to give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to foreign companies like Volkswagen to build battery cell manufacturing plants in Canada was a “catastrophically disastrous move.”

Jim Balsillie, the former chair of Research in Motion and more recently the co-founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators, told National P

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