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Someone Could Turn It Off: Vass Bednar on Digital Sovereignty and What Canada Is Missing
Digital sovereignty Canada does not fully have, and Vass Bednar says the Trump administration has made the vulnerabilities harder to ignore.
The question she keeps returning to is simple: can you govern the economy you have? For a significant portion of Canada's digital infrastructure, the answer is no. The US Cloud Act reaches into Canadian data centres if the firm operating them has a meaningful American presence. The federal government runs on Microsoft infrastructure it rents annually at a rising price. Vass Bednar's own think tank received a warning from Google while making a copy of its…
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