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“We can get about four times the distance and range on an electric, battery-powered craft than we could with a conventional boat. That enables a response out to 100 kilometres of range instead of 25 for an equivalent battery size.”

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Paul Ziadé, Co-founder and CEO of North Vector Dynamics, on why modern warfare creates a real opportunity for Canada.

Full Podcast on Spotify/Youtube/Apple/Substack

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Paul Ziadé: The Future of Canada’s Air Defence

Canadian Explorers I: North Vector Dynamics

In Chapter One of Canadian Explorers, I sat down with @ziade_paul to discuss developing a Canadian neo-prime, sovereign capability, startups, and what it means for Canada to start building again.

The mission is to industrialize deterrence.

Topics discussed:

00:00 - Cold open
00:41 - Intro: What is North Vector Dynamics?
02:47 - The CM-70 SPEAR: Canada’s low-cost precision air-defence missile
05:48 - What “Industrializing Deterrence” means for Canada
08:17 - Domestic drone threats, ports, shipping containers, and critical infrastructure
10:18 - Who needs air defence beyond the military
12:05 - Why Canadian defence procurement has to change
17:10 - The Alliance of Canadian Defence Companies
20:50 - Defence as industrial strategy, IP ownership, and Canadian wealth creation
21:41 - Paul’s path from childhood rocketry to engineering, academia, and entrepreneurship
24:05 - Why the corporate and academic paths were not enough
26:13 - Why North Vector Dynamics had to exist
27:19 - Raising capital for defence in Canada and why North Vector stayed here
31:13 - The need for Canadian risk capital and government-industry relationships
35:31 - NORAD modernization, Golden Dome, and Canada’s air-defence opportunity
37:18 - The future of North Vector Dynamics
39:44 - Interoperability and fitting into NATO-standard systems
40:19 - Advice for first-time founders
43:43 - How Canada can make sure it follows through
45:30 - How Canada can start dreaming bigger
48:47 - Legacy, fatherhood, and showing younger builders what is possible in Canada
51:02 - Why defence is not a dirty word, and history is not over

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It is time to start acting and stop waiting for permission.

In Chapter One of Canadian Explorers, I sat down with @ziade_paul, Co-founder and CEO of North Vector Dynamics, to talk about air defence, sovereign capability, startups, and what it means for Canada to start building again.

Full podcast in replies.

The future of Canada’s air defence:

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#Canada

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Preparation has become an excuse for cowardice.
Canada has enough experts. These are the explorers.

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I'm building a montage of Canadian deep-tech companies. In defence, space, the Arctic, and more. Here's a preview, featuring NorthVectorDynamics, ONE9 and @_AirMatrix_
If your company is building hard tech and has footage, send it over. Every company featured will be tagged in the final video.

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Canada is about to spend $1.2 trillion on defence. Six months ago, defence startups couldn't get bank accounts.
I made a video about why this is a generational opportunity.
Link in replies

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The idea of a butterfly is more palatable than the butterfly itself.

To the cocoon they wish for you.

But the cocoon has already been torn open.

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Canadian VC is seeing decade lows. Startups are leaving.

Meanwhile, Canada just committed $82B to defence. BDC is deploying $4B to startups. Defence companies raising $21M in seed funding.

The opportunity nobody's talking about.

#BuildCanada

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“To act, you must be willing to sacrifice the feeling of preparedness. Opportunity lies one pace ahead of fear. With one moment of hesitation, it will devour you.”

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Created my first article.

"Is your life so spectacular, complete, fulfilled already that you mustn’t search for the unknown? We live because we are not yet complete, not to protect what we do not have."

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If my story includes failure in permanence (which seems to be only realized in death), was that too my destiny? Would failing to take risks rebel against destiny? If I do not thrive under risk, would I have thrived without that risk? Rather, by avoiding my battles, would the enemy still approach? How long could one be so Fabian? How long could one scorch the Earth? Isn’t it always better to just be bold? To at least fail faster?

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Although everything in life must be loved passionately, it is a challenge. You must earn the right to find beauty, to give love. The world will attempt to strip this from you.
Oddly, I have always believed that you must earn the right to receive something, yet never to give.

Likewise with all in life, one must battle for their individuality. One must move despite what those around them believe, or despite how they act.
Although finding appreciation, and love in life has never been a strength of mine. I am surprised to find out that it likewise is not a strength of others, that they are not who I must learn from.

One must battle the storm. One must crawl through the desert, until they find oasis. One must fight until they find peace. For peace will not find you, and it will not come easily.
One day, through strive and struggle, you will be surrounded by likeminded people.
But in order to find these people, you must first fight to be lonely.
Yet what else can you do? To find company in those who betray life, that is true loneliness. It is to betray your own soul for the so called values of others.

You will always be yourself, and the day that you find shame in that, is the day that you die.