> You need entrepreneurship, competition and risk taking. Canada has had this in the past and IMO has faltered more recently. RIM/Blackberry (ie pioneering el

> You need entrepreneurship, competition and risk taking. Canada has had this in the past and IMO has faltered more recently. RIM/Blackberry (ie pioneering elliptical curve crypto), Smart boards, Canada ARM for space, Candu reactors. We've had some pretty high tech inventions in the past. Waterloo was(/ is?) a pretty great tech school.