AskACanadian

It's impractical/implausible that we could at this stage. Even after the elbows up stuff, our government hasn't pulled back its entanglement with US tech giants -- if anything, it's gone further on that front, considerably. Things like our financial regulators, banks and basic government services all run off of Microsoft365. Microsoft365 is a 'subscription' services that can be cancelled / impacted by US govt trade dictates. The US can literally 'shut off' Canada's government, or at least many of its functional/operational wings.

The US listing Canada's push for data sovereignty as a trade irritant, as well as Rubio's memo last year noting foreign countries seeking data sovereignty equated to a national security risk for the USA, basically confirms that they're misusing/misappropriating the data held at US companies for things like AI and their authoritarian surveillance programs. Even the mention of a country pulling back from this sort of dangerous entanglement, gets the US trade teams up in arms / ready to heavily sanction former allies. Carney and crowd will almost definitely cave. Has an ex-bank regulator type, and the banking sector has been one of those most heavily pushed into using US tech giants, essentially by regulatory decree -- he's not just drunk the koolaid, he was the guy serving it up.

Point being, that even if by some bizarre situation Canada went that way while somehow avoiding getting attacked as a result, it'd still be an absolutely catastrophic hit on things like productivity and basic government function.