The very exciting, not at all self-serving ideas of Build Canada's CEOs

Have you heard the great news? The builders of Canada's tech industry have come together to start an exciting new policy initiative to fix our woe-begotten country. Didn't you know? Canada isn't just a country dealing with some difficult problems, it's BROKEN and it needs to be FIXED. Fortunately, these luminaries of the tech industry have come up with a bunch of simple solutions that those bozos in the public sector simply never thought of.

Build Canada has just launched, after having previously been reported on in The Logic, as a 'non-partisan' platform (in the software sense, not political party sense) for disseminating policy memos, each written by 'builders', which ostensibly means Canadian entrepreneurs who have built successful companies that have created lots of jobs (more on that later). These memos are also 'supported' by other builders, and maybe people with actual policy backgrounds? They don't exactly make it clear.

The platform has launched with 4 memos, and you'll be thrilled to know that they're all very novel ideas that solve substantive issues facing Canadian society! Wait, sorry, no, I meant they're all very boring pleas to fix personal bugbears impinging on the operating income of these executives' businesses. We've got:

• 'Transport Canada should prohibit municipalities from banning e-scooters', written by the CEO of an e-scooter company
• 'We should spend money on new Heritage Minutes that are pro-builder, and collect lots of data to see how these videos are being watched', written by the CEO of a video hosting and analytics company
• 'Make our immigration system more onerous and focused on "high-value" immigrants (with a nice sprinkling of dogwhistles)', written by the CEO of an immigration services company
• 'Leverage the Canada Health Act to force all provinces to use a shared platform to give patients access to their health data', written by the CEO of a company that makes 'healthcare's most powerful customer experience platform'

I for one can't wait for the next few memos. I suspect they've had to throw a few out since Mark Carney has already said he's tossing the capital gains inclusion-rate increase that caused all these business execs to fall out of love with the Grits in the first place. Maybe we'll get an exciting non-partisan memo from former Jason Kenney staffer and current True North board member Kaz about the prudence of accepting manifest destiny.