Canada’s future depends on entrepreneurs

Canada’s future depends on entrepreneurs ANALYSIS 22 JUNE 2026 i Why builders matter in an age of pessimism FALICE CHIN VIEW BIO ARTICLE SUMMARY KEY STATS When Don Archibald walked away from a comfortable career at a major bank to launch his own company, it wasn’t because he had discovered some foolproof path to riches. In fact, the founder of Calgary-based Cypress Energy jokes that part of the reason was that nobody would hire him for the job he actually wanted. “I had to create my own job,” he said. “I made myself president.” Over the next three decades, Archibald did exactly that—buildi…