Digital sovereignty is the new national priority

Canada has a long history of great aspirations with a long record of high hopes, but followed by a sorry record of little real accomplishment. This time has to be different.

AI Minister Evan Solomon, pictured on the Hill. The Second World War showed that we could meet urgent new needs and a successful digital sovereignty strategy will depend, likewise, on utilizing, in an all-out commitment and the best of our public and private sectors, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

June 8, 2026

TORONTO—Digital sovereignty is the new national priority. It's about our ability to have some control over our own future, and not a future as a vassal state of the United States or of the trillion-dollar companies we know as the hyperscalers: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, IBM...

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