Sovereignty by control, not passport

Canada badly needs the productivity gains the technology sector may offer, but only if we take the right approach to three key theatres of action: data centre investments, public procurements, and trade policy.

Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc. American cloud firms will be a tempting target in trade talks with the U.S. since excluding them can be sold as retaliation, Buy Canadian policy, and digital sovereignty all at once. It would be a bad trade, write Peter Copeland and Lawrence Zhang. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PETER COPELAND, LAWRENCE ZHANG

October 7, 2026

Sovereignty is back on the agenda, understandably and rightly in an era of resurgent great power politics. When global investors gathered for the Canada Investment Summit this September, the government framed the event around trust and said that Canada should

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