iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Replies

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

But Prime Minister Stephen Harper whipped the vote among his Conservative MPs and passed it, because he judged that tariff-free access to America's markets to be a price worth paying: pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/r... 49/

pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Canada’s ground-breaking, hamstrung repair and interop laws (15 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

4709

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

Trump's tariffs prove that this was a bad bargain. By voluntarily gluing its technological elbows to its sides, Canada made itself easy pickings for America's tech giants. 50/

18110

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

Those giants wiped out Canada's tech sector while making Canada geopolitically and economically dependent on - and vulnerable to - the US and its tech companies. Canada is long overdue for a reckoning with this blunder. 51/

19913