Senators, experts push for public ownership of digital industries, AI data centres

Ontario Senator Andrew Cardozo says a new-and-improved Canada Post could manage email, business-to-business banking lending, digital verification, and potentially AI governance, as a way to 'reclaim the public interest' with digital systems.
Ontario Senator Andrew Cardozo suggested three public entities that could theoretically take up the mantle of creating 'Canadian public digital infrastructure,' including Canada Post, the National Research Council, or a yet-to-be created Crown corporation.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
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BY DAVIS LEGREE
October 16, 2026

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