On Friday, June 13, I was pleased to be invited to present in Calgary at their TEDX talks. I decided to make the economic case for why it would help Canada if Obama says "no" to Keystone. It's pretty straight forward. Canada is lagging in innovation. We are falling behind the US in productivity. The evidence is clear that R and D occurs more in manufacturing than in raw resource export. But we have gone from about 60% of our exports being those with value added to 60% being raw, unprocessed, without value added. It's not an argument we hear much in Canada and I hope you'll find it interesting.