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The lack of a go-getter spirit and international outlook that makes it difficult for us to create internationally-recognized brands that reach outside North America.

European nations smaller than us (Sweden, The Netherlands, etc.) have recognizable global brands, while we're happy having companies like GM Canada, IBM Canada, etc. and a bunch of resource companies that no one's heard of. Our only global brands are Blackberry, Nortel (defunct), Scotiabank, and a few others. Canada punches way below its weight in global entrepreneurship.

This issue was explored in the book, "Why Mexicans don't drink Molson" [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/Why-Mexicans-Don-Drink-Molson/dp/1553652258

Now this is a question I can answer. First, if you're doing a research project on wealth in Eastern Canada, I'm happy to report that someone has already done all the work for you:

http://www.amazon.ca/Codfathers-Lessons-Atlantic-Business-Elite/dp/1552637182

For the sake of discussion, let's exclude Mary Jean Irving from the conversation. While she does reside on PEI, her family comes from NB and their business interests here are TINY in comparison to the overall vastness of their wealth. PEI isn't even a rounding error to their overall balance sheet, and they didn't make their money here.

In that book, only two Islanders warrant mentioning: Danny Murphy and Regis Duffy.This article does a great job explaining how Murphy made and continues to make money:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/timbit-titan-the-story-behind-peis-entrepreneurial-murphy-clan/article6966097/?page=all

Despite what others have said here, his brother Kevin is not in the same realm of wealth as Danny. Still rich as fuck, but not truly wealthy like Danny (who also happened to marry another wealthy Tim's franchisor).

As for Regis Duffy, he was a UPEI chemistry prof who started a business Diagnostic Chemicals selling, you guessed it, chemicals. He sold out, and the company is now known as BioVectra. He has a very low profile in comparison to Danny, partly due to personality differences but also because selling coffee requires a different approach than selling reagents.

As for Tim Banks, he is not even in the conversation. Sure, he might theoretically "own" 100 million in assets, but he also probably has 99.9 million in debt against it. There is a reason he has gone bankrupt in the past, and its called leverage. His "empire" is built on borrowed money.

The way I've explained it in the past is like this. When Danny Murphy wakes up in the morning, his biggest problem is what to do with all the excess money being thrown off by the cash spigot that is Tim Horton's (which is why he's now buying hotels); Tim Banks, on the contrary, wakes up every day wondering who he can borrow from to build his next hotel.

To us plebs on the outside, they both appear "rich as fuck". And, while that may be true in relative terms, there is a difference between being rich and being wealthy. Tim Banks is rich, Danny Murphy is wealthy.

Dividing states to limit their power has been done. This can take many different forms, from outright division (Germany after WWII is one example) to simply taking away certain territories or colonies which are thought to increase power. In the case of Germany, the country had started two wars recently and was seen as particularly aggressive. Solving the "German Question" and preventing Germany from starting another war was thought to justify extreme measures in remaking German society. However, this strategy requires conquest of the country in question. In the case of the United States that is basically impossible due to the size of its military and the presence of its nuclear arsenal.

On the other hand, states which are too large for their own good, as opposed to the good of the rest of the world, divide themselves all the time. Internal divisions lead to violent or peaceful separation of part of the state. Rome did it peacefully and split in two. You're from the UK, so you might remember Ireland splitting off. Sudan is now two countries; the former Yugoslavia is now many. However, the difference between Germany and the above examples is that except in the case of Rome, there were major ethnic divisions that led to each country's breaking up, and in Rome, the problem was one of administration. These countries weren't split apart because they were too powerful, they split apart because the central government lacked the power to keep the country together.

Powerful countries don't just divide themselves, they have to be divided by outside forces. Although dividing powerful countries might lead to more peaceful outcomes, forcing them to do so would certainly involve a great deal of fighting. Also, the argument exists that a high concentration of power can actually lead to greater peace than some alternatives. Edward Mansfield wrote a very interesting book on the relationship between the distribution of power and the probability of war. I'd recommend you read it.

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But to answer your question vietnam , folks have been moving manufacturing to vietnam for like the last 8 years , infastructures not quite their yet but yeh. Vietnam

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As far as East Asia/Indian Ocean stuff, Robert Kaplan is a pretty good introduction. His book Monsoon is a really good primer on the history of the Indian Ocean region, and it's ongoing (and increasing) importance in international politics. His new book Asia's Cauldron is promising, I haven't read it yet but it is a contemporary and forward looking take at the South China Sea and its role in shaping the future of international relations in the region. I actually just bought it the other day and will be reading it soon (spending the next 18-33 months abroad doing various things). Kaplan's books tend to be a very readable mix of history, personal anecdotes, and political analysis. Sometimes he can get a bit full of himself, especially in sections of Monsoon, but he does a great job at making what he writes accessible to a wide audience while still being at least interesting to read for academics.

For a primer on broad international relations, International Politics is a great starting point. This was my introduction to the field, and while it can be quite dense, it is very informative. It is a collection of essays and articles that is aimed at an intro level IR class (100 level), so while it is certainly on the academic side of things, it is still very approachable, so long as you have the patience to occasionally look up terms and concepts, for someone with no academic background in the subject.

As far as a general reading on grand strategy, I have only heard amazing things about Charles Hill's Grand Strategies. Basically it examines military grand strategy from a historical perspective, the politics behind the strategy, and also ties it into popular literature (such as Shakespeare) in order to make the concepts approachable and digestible for the average person.

For modern military theory that is applicable to today's world, and probably worth understanding given what has been going on in the world for the past decade and what continues to happen, you might be interested in David Kilcullen's The Accidental Guerrilla. Kilcullen has two major books on insurgency, one is Counterinsurgency which is a higher level approach to the topic, while Accidental Guerrilla is a distillation of his observations and studies on counterinsurgency viewed put into a framework that would be easier for the average person to understand.

Admittedly I am a bit biased, as Francis Fukuyama is a family friend, but his latest works The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay are great looks into how and why the state system arose, as well as flaws in political systems, corruption, etc.

His earlier (and more famous) book, The End of History and the Last Man is still a very interesting read, although without the proper framing it can be a bit odd in the current global political climate. It works off of a concept that I think is best described in Phillip Bobbit's The Shield of Achilles, which Bobbit terms the "long war". The grand concept of the Long War is that the game changing interstate conflicts throughout history have predominantly been between different types of states. It is a bit of a Darwinist look at state politics and political order, seeing different political models (democracy, communism, fascism, monarchy, etc) as directly competing, and there being a series of successors. The End of History works off of a similar premise, basically saying that once the Soviet Union collapses (it was originally formulated as a series of articles in the late 1980s), Liberal Democratic Capitalism would be the predominant political system, and that it would mark the "end of history" as we knew it up to that point. History had been dominated by massive regional and worldwide conflicts between states that often differed in structure, and that once all the major powers had pretty much gotten to the point of L-D-C, then interstate conflict as we knew it would cease to exist. Obviously conflict still exists, but it is much harder to imagine a World War III in todays world, despite tensions with Russian and China, than it would be just 30 years ago.

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> Top tip; unless you've got huge linked-list or you've got big objects in the list (or they have expensive copy constructors), it's just as easy (for the programmer) and a lot faster to insert into a vector. In modern C++, you need a really good reason to use a linked list and a really good reason to use a dynamic array.

So... if I'm understanding correctly, the primary reason to use a linked list (insertion being easier) is to improve on the efficiency of a dynamic array, but a vector is more efficient than both, so should supersede them both unless there's a specific need (such as, perhaps, the low available storage of Arduino running on an ATTiny85 or something, in which the overhead of the vector class might pose a problem?) to use an array or linked list?

> Amongst some of the most respected parts of the C++ teaching community, teaching dynamic arrays before vectors is seen as a mistake. An unthinking leftover from thirty years ago when C++ was being learned and taught by C programmers. Now that you've seen it, don't forget it exists, but your standard container should be vector.

This doesn't surprise me. I've been reading that a lot of this exists in the teaching world. It's been a while since my instructors were in industry, but in fairness to them, almost all of the material comes from a couple of books that aren't the most intuitive and, from what I'm hearing, don't necessarily teach in the best way. Gotta love community colleges. ;-)

I appreciate the nationalism (?) and it's food for thought, but companies brand themselves the way they do for all sorts of reasons, none of which should concern the average citizen.

I'm not going to stop eating at Swiss Chalet because they're not Swiss.

The bigger issue is not naming but the Canadian entrepreneurial culture. There's a book called "Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson" that goes into detail as why Canadian companies have a hard to developing global brands, and a lot of it has to do with complacency, risk aversion to developing foreign markets and lack of an ecosystem for scale-up.

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Mexicans-Dont-Drink-Molson/dp/1553652258

Many older (and some younger) Canadians have this mindset that we're a country descended from "hewers of wood and drawers of water", and don't really think to venture abroad -- past the United States and Western Europe, and to emerging economies -- and take risks there. It's really a mindset thing. Fortunately one of the biggest sources of complacency disruptors are immigrants, so we'll see if the risk appetite of the Canadian population changes.

I highly recommend this book for getting into import/export

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Markups can be tricky, I think it varies a lot across different types of products and markets (I know, I hate those kinds of answers too). I think maybe an approximate number to have in your head would be a 30-50% markup at each level. But I guess the best (albeit not helpful unless you have a firm grasp of market prices) answer would be as high as you can make it without pushing yourself out of the market.

Edit: looks like there is a PDF version of that book, I should probably put that in the sidebar

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qwertygyle made a good point. Dont handle it yourself, let the logistics company of your choice give you a quote. To compare ask your supplier to give you a quote from his logistics company! I cover this also in my FREE Ebook on importing from China available on Amazon, last day today: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UHTYAX2
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> "There is literally no industry in the world that we have an advantage in," he said. "‘Our most prolific companies, Nortel, BlackBerry, Bombardier -- we’re not good at running businesses, period, and it has to do with our culture. We’re not as aggressive and competitive and capitalistic as the folks down south."

Wow. Finally someone said it in print. And we all know it's true: What major Canadian brands are household names, outside of Canada? None. Why the hell do we (Canadians) drink so much Corona but do Mexicans drink Molson's? No.

Why does Switzerland, Sweden, or Australia, etc...all smaller countries... have much greater success at growing 'National Champion' globally-recognized businesses and brands? Why are there no more Canadian branded automobiles? (we used to have a number of Canadian auto manufacturers).

Hasan is dead on. But he doesn't need to join our national inferiority complex over it - we have a limited head start, so get out there an out-compete. Dominate the market.