🇨🇦 Canada suddenly discovers it outsourced sovereignty

After years of handing Ottawa’s data, communications and workflows to Microsoft, Google and Apple, the same political class now whispers about digital sovereignty because U.S. platforms obediently rebranded Lake Ontario as Lake America. That little humiliation exposed the real scandal: Canada’s state apparatus talks like a sovereign country while operating like a branch office. Even the federal government runs on Microsoft 365, and now we’re told to act shocked that foreign firms answer to foreign power. The state finally noticed the trap only when Washington started tugging the leash, as reported.

This is the Trudeau-era formula in one sentence: preach independence, build dependence. Open the borders, hollow out national capacity, then slap a buzzword on the wreckage and call it policy. Digital trade alignment was always code for surrendering regulatory control to U.S. corporate interests while Canadians pay for the privilege. A serious country would build domestic infrastructure, protect its data, and stop confusing global integration with sovereignty. Canada’s elites did the opposite, and now they’ve discovered that vassals do not set the rules.

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