National Magazine: Vass Bednar, managing director of the Canadian Shield Institute, an independent policy institute advancing Canada’s economic resilience, sovereignty, innovation, and global competitiveness, says that for all of the positive connotations of alignment, what the Americans have been seeking is alignment with their expectations. They expect Canada to fall in line with their standards of little to no regulation, allowing the web giants to operate with little oversight. They are treating the digital chapter of CUSMA as a floor, when we should treat it as a ceiling.
“We should be beating back that chapter and trying to gain ground so that we have a better ability to regulate the digital economy.”…