The Carney admin has actually been doing more than I've seen any Canadian government do in my entire lifetime.
Just looking at the last two months:
- All the trade war shit with Trump
- EU associate membership
- launched Digital Transformation Canada, which I'm pretty excited about. As long as they don't consolidate everything further into M365 which has been the plan the last several years.
- launched Sovereign Cloud Services procurement project for new cloud services in Canada with national security exemptions and requirements. We spend over $120M/year on cloud, though the exact number isn't clear because there's a ladder of different contract agreements. We can afford to build/source our own at that budget.
- launched Canadian Council on AI
- Evan Solomon (I know we all hate him) has started digital partnerships with UK + Ireland after the AI summit
- Had our first sovereign-tech-alliance meeting with Germany
- Defence department is building a new Canadian datacenter
- ISED announced roadmap for sovereign compute infrastructure
Microsoft is shitting itself. This year should have been over a billion in contract renewals after the 2019 contracts close out, and now they're putting out white papers that "Sovereign" tech is compatible with the CLOUD Act because you can still control your data (just don't worry about the US government having access to it).
Never in my life have I seen the government move this quickly and US companies shit themselves so hard.