The government’s ambitious infrastructure plan aims to strengthen Canada’s long-term economic foundations, but that won’t happen unless digital infrastructure is treated as a core nation-building asset alongside transportation corridors, energy systems and ports.
The pace of digital adoption, its link to productivity, and productivity’s link to standard of living, is the concern of policymakers—and they should be concerned.
Falling behind is no longer a matter of just losing market share; it means losing control over our own data, innovation, and security.
There aren’t enough new critical mineral projects getting up and running to meet a basic level of demand, much less answer the world’s call for electrification.