Very good article ! Mr. Balsillie should step in the battle and stir the pot aggressively to wake up those passive politicians we elected to represent our interests. He can afford it because he walked away with billions from Blackberry and left a huge dent in the "K-W" economy. While APPLE and Samsung were fighting for market share in the mobile industry Mr. Balsillie was busy trying to purchase a hockey team in US not seeing two steps ahead for guard the Blackberry interests. With an MBA from Harvard and so much know how Mr.Balsillie can really help and make a difference.
 At this point little startups are trying to reinvigorate the local economy and employ the massive spill over from Blackberry who was a 15,000 employee shop at one time and kept Waterloo in the top 10 smartest cities in the world. 
"WE" the middle class are busy working hard to pay mortgages, help kids with money to get education so they don't end up with $60k-70k in debts and no place to work after graduating.