David Dlab

Director of Parl Affairs @SenateCA. Prev 📊 @ George Weston, Finning & Exxon. Love history, maps. Climate optimist. 🌱🇨🇦🌍 Opinions my own.

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

@simongerman600 I read now that this was published in 1830 to replicate what was the "known world" in 1660. So not published in 1660 (which would have been quite remarkable!).

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

@simongerman600 The accuracy of this map in terms of proportionality and detail is truly amazing for 1660.

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

Trump’s tariffs are not an attack on Canada’s economy. They’re an attack on America’s. We should respond accordingly.

My latest for @TheHubCanada on Canada’s best response: https://t.co/geBuwUZZtC #cdnecon #cdnpoli

[Stuart Benson @LeftHandStu]

If you're in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday evening, the National Arts Centre will be livestreaming the launch of the Artemis II lunar mission from the five-story screens of its outdoor Kipnes Lantern.

The first of two launch windows opens tomorrow at 6:24 p.m. and you can check for updates at https://t.co/fcqoj7vF8h

[Report on Business @globebusiness]

CSIS warning shows Ottawa can’t keep ignoring Canada’s IP crisis https://t.co/z8WEFaNOCX

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

@tylermeredith Unfortunately this ruling doesn’t impact the sectoral tariffs. I think last time a court challenged the liberation day tariffs, Trump upped the sectoral ones from 25 to 50% to show his tariff agenda potency. Hope he doesn’t make a similar move again.

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

@zerohedge For clarity, in 2016 Canada sold the remainder of its gold which was only 77 ounces. The vast majority of the reserves were sold in the 90s. Lots of countries have 0 gold (Norway, NZ, Israel, …)

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

With trade frozen and inventories quickly drying up in certain sectors it’s just a matter of time before the direct effect of tariffs are felt across the whole economy. (1-2 months)

We should start seeing detailed measured effects on earnings reports during the summer.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

what’s happening to the turkish people is is so painful to witness.

an educated, modern nation with a leader who doesn’t trust his own citizens, is unwilling to allow their voices to be heard, and is prepared to use the force of the state against them.

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

Major news from Turkey as Ekrem Imamoglu, Mayor of Istanbul and chief political rival to Erdogan, is arrested, days before he was set to be nominated as a presidential candidate in the next election.

https://t.co/OVaGfxRT0t

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

There is a lot of nonsense written today about the result of the election in Greenland 🇬🇱yesterday. Trumpers are claiming that Greenland will now get a more pro-Trump government.

That is not the case. Here are some insights.

1/x 🧵

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

The most successful outcome of diplomacy is when both sides thinks the other blinked first.

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

Canada is far behind on digital government transformation (47th globally in 2024, from 3rd in 2010). This has severe consequences for public finances, service delivery outcomes, and trust in government's competence/legitimacy as an institution.

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

Two good articles on UK gvmt digital transformation last week: 🧵

(1) “The State of Digital Government” report is set to be released this week. One of the top headlines will be that the UK gvmt has missed out on £45 billion of annual savings because of archaic technology.

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

The blueprint contains six priorities for digitizing government. Most promising is the focus on prioritizing inclusion of UK tech firms to nurture the ecosystem and drive cost effective and consumer driven system delivery.

https://t.co/cvEmRbAcJ8

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

There has been a lot of commentary in recent days about interprovincial trade barriers but one gets the sense that most of those commenting couldn't cite specific barriers if forced—with the exception of vague references to alcohol or transportation.

One of the principal challenges with addressing interprovincial trade barriers is that no province has a policy called "interprovincial trade barrier." In fact, there aren't even many instances where provincial policy is explicitly and intentionally protectionist.

Most interprovincial trade barriers are in fact legal and provincial divergences that have grown up over time with no real rhyme or reason. Most of them aren't matters of significant political principle or import.

For instance: A restaurant license in Lloydminster, SK, needs to be renewed every 2 years. The same license in Lloydminster, AB, must be renewed every 5 years. It's hard to imagine that either Premiers Moe or Smith are personally committed to these different policies.

So if it's not politics, what's the impediment to progress? A major obstacle to eliminating interprovincial trade barriers is actually identifying them. They're set out under different regulations and statues and often written in different language.

I have a hypothesis that we could enable the elimination of a significant share of interprovincial trade barriers by using AI technology to go systematically through provincial regulations and policies and create an apples-to-apples comparison across the provinces.

Provincial governments could then clearly see where these policy divergences exist, determine which ones are matters of principles and which aren't, and then settle on how best to converge them. To use the example above, maybe they move to 5-year licenses or maybe they pick a number in between.

This of course wouldn't fully eliminate interprovincial trade barriers. But it would enable us to address technocratic differences across the provinces and then focus our attention on ones that are an outgrowth of politics.

[David Dlab @daviddlab]

"Time doesn’t seem to matter so much in Canada. We take a leisurely pace".

Due to parliamentary inaction on cybersecurity, privacy, AI, and data, tech firms will be adopting existing international regulations, rather than made-in-Canada standards.

https://t.co/euME5g957M