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So this "buy Canadian" policy announced by Carney - any more details on it?
We have the previous eye-popping increase of military spending to 5% of GDP, dozens of billions...is that going to be spent in #canada
Dozens of billions spent on US cloud services, SAAS, social media, ad purchasing, and consulting? Is that going to become "buy Canadian" too?
Is the Canadian govt going to drop Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Oracle, Deloitte, IBM, Accenture out of their procurements?
it would be a surprise to me, because existing trade agreements require govts to be open to competitive procurement from other countries' suppliers. CETA, TPP, CUSMA.
A bar on foreign suppliers in federal and provincial procurement would be more impactful than the Digital Services Tax that Carney just cancelled, and probably attract retaliation.
So I expect "buy Canadian" is just going to be apply to a few industries. Like buying the steel for the unwanted pipelines.
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