If Canada speaks up, world will listen, Balsillie says

[CHIMO]

The world would listen, if only Canada would speak up.

One of Canada's most successful entrepreneurs, Jim Balsillie, served up strong words for the country last night, saying that when it comes to foreign relations and global leadership, Canada should be doing more on the international stage.

"It's not that the Canadian voice isn't valued, I assure you that's not it," the co-chief executive of BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion Ltd. said at the annual gala dinner of The Canadian Press.

"It's that we're not there. It's not that people aren't prepared to receive us, we're not voicing," he said. "They never say 'we don't want to hear what you say,' they say, 'where are the Canadians?' "

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Our New (Impotent) Canadian Government isn't going to like this.

[Spazito]

1. At the moment, Canada is in the pocket of the US neocons

sadly. It is a temporary aberration, hopefully.

[HeresyLives]

2. Yet Harper keeps saying

'we're back on the world stage', when actually we've left it.