Trudeau’s Government Accused of Prioritizing Silicon Valley Demands Over Canadian Tech Ethics

Trudeau’s Government Accused of Prioritizing Silicon Valley Demands Over Canadian Tech Ethics

During a roundtable, a former Canadian AI startup founder who is currently headquartered in Toronto subtly posed the question, “When will Ottawa care more about Montreal than Menlo Park?” It seemed like a little but significant moment. Although the question was not included in any transcript, for more than a year now, the sentiment has been reverberating around university labs, incubators, and backchannel Slack channels. The accusation against P…