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The Missing Half of Canada’s AI Strategy

Better models and Canadian data centres will not fix public-service AI if governments cannot agree on which data to trust.

21.07.2026 6

OpenCanada

Patrick Spencer

Canada Is Building Digital Government One Doorway at a Time

Canada has portals, strategies, and identity initiatives. What it does not have is the shared digital infrastructure that lets services, data, and...

22.06.2026 20

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Patrick Spencer

Canada Is Measuring Digital Government Against the Wrong Model

International rankings can tell us how Canada appears online. They tell us much less about whether a federation can govern digital infrastructure,...

21.05.2026 20

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Patrick spencer