A few thoughts:

I haven’t felt pride like that, from a Prime Minister’s speech in my lifetime. Well done! One for the history books as it really met the moment.

I tried to imagine what a Pierre Poilievre speech would sound like in this moment, and shuddered at the thought. Canada dodged a bullet on that one. That slime must never see power.

The world needs to actively divest from US technology and financial assets. Bonds, Treasuries, Equities. This ship is sinking fast. Get out while you can.

My real problem is all the US tech dependency. Gmail. Youtube. Apple Music. Amazon Web services…

Imagine if there was an executive order to turn off Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft web services to Canada. How much economic damage would that cause instantly? We’d be set back a decade.

I’ve got a small business and we’re contemplating setting up a NextCloud server to try to move off a few of these things.

Hey, at least we have lemmy.ca (and such!)

Turning them off would be a mixed blessing. The US would instantly lose the revenue, we would quickly adapt alternatives, and they would lose the surveilance. Others around the world would also expedite the deAmericanizing efforts. I’m more worried of them keeping it on, keeping the revenue and slowing down our adaptations.