Laurent Carbonneau
@laurentdcar
innovation and industrial policy | vp of policy/advocacy at the council of canadian innovators | formerly PSE policy, NDP staffer, early modern intellectual history
No one has been brave enough to point out that the Québécois have a rare gene that makes us all look like political cartoons
Like, the fuckin thing is the size of centretown with room to spare
politics and the pen baby!! great to see @vassb.bsky.social and many other fine individuals. (buy the book!! At the Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums, available wherever fine books are sold!)
just look at this thing. it looks like it's going to ask me to play a round of pazaak at the mos eisley cantina
can any stable political-economic system survive the sudden 'line go up' phenomena in this graph that affect the price of literally everything?
Fun launch last night for At the Trough at Perfect Books in Ottawa! Great to see so many friendly faces :)
Ok change of pace, post completely unrelated to book or innovation policy, but painted up this Shadow Hawk and Catapult yesterday and I think they're pretty neat
At the Trough drops in just two short weeks! Over the lifetime of the Trudeau government, Canada's federal government went from spending $15 billion to $40 billion on business subsidies, for little movement on productivity, innovation, or growth. ATT gets at why, and what we can do differently.
Yay author copies! Very excited for publication day, a mere month and change away!
ITIF in Canada vs ITIF at home in the United States. Honestly it's profoundly insulting to see this two-faced insistence that Canada know its place while they recognize the obvious benefits of domestic HQ'd global tech leaders at home. Appallingly dishonest and self-serving.
I am very excited to finally announce that my short book from Sutherland House, *At the Trough: The Rise and Rise of Canada's Corporate Welfare Bums* is out for release on March 25, will set you back just 20 bucks, and will teach you all about the long, sordid history of Canada's subsidy adventures.
Well box is fully painted, time to actually try to find the time to play
Regret to inform that I will be stomping little battle guys around my table in the near future
Really interesting Statecraft interview about the UK with a lot that resonates with the Canadian experience www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-bui...
Interesting StatCan releases on R&D this morning. BERD is still pretty anemic in %GDP terms but has grown by 40% since 2014 after inflation
On Friday we'll be saying goodbye to our big boy Hugo, who's been with us for our 8 eventful years in Ottawa. He's been with us through moves, a wedding, a pregnancy, careers, the whole bit. We'll miss him terribly, and it guts me that he won't get to meet our son.