You can’t build and scale a start-up fast enough, say, in case of a crisis. Furthermore, China will use such investments to gain political influence in the foreign country -in that case Canada-, and they won’t stop in this particular industry. Countries must think more in vertically-integrated supply chains and strategic clusters rather than in industries, and they must include geopolitical issues.

Germany just legalized Cannabis, effective this month.

@IninewCrow

Remove that necessity from the table and see what the Russians will do.

Russia will attack the next country. Agressions can be seen against Moldova already. And just talk to someone from the Baltics.

Finland is also a good example. The country has been neutral since tbe 1940s and only joined Nato after Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022 for the second time. And Russia attacked Ukraine for the first time in 2014 after the successful citizen protests in Ukraine which put the country on the road from a dictatorship to a democracy.

Because democracy, not Ukraine, is Russia’s true enemy.