Canada should treat all US tech companies the same we would treat Chinese ones. Assume they are an asset of the state and keep them at arm’s reach when it comes to national security.
zachem62 on
>“Palantir Canada is a Canadian company, subsidiary to Palantir global,” McGuinty said, referring to the parent company based in the United States that was co-founded by a tech billionaire with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump.
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>The minister added that “we’ll look at this question of data sovereignty,” and stressed that the Carney government will direct its military spending as much as possible to companies that “build in Canada.”
Sounds like they consider Palantir’s Canadian subsidiary to be a Canadian company that builds in Canada. How convenient.
>Its chief executive officer has also argued in a recent book about the alleged perils of “hollow pluralism” in Western countries and proclaimed Big Tech companies have a “moral obligation” to defend the United States…
So the company has openly declared they’ll voluntarily act as an arm of the US gov’t.
>…the military’s use of Palantir is concerning because of a 2018 law in the U.S. that could compel companies to hand over data to the American government.
There we have it. The final cherry on top.
The fact that the defence minister feels confident enough to brazenly stand by working with this company speaks volumes.
DrDankDankDank on
Carney has been a mixed bag for sure, but doing ANYTHING with a company as evil as palantir is just inexcusable. Between this and bill c-22 I’m very disappointed. It was nice to see the minister of the environment resign today based on his view that Canada is backsliding on climate issues. Hard not to say he’s right. I hate to say it but I don’t know if we can trust carney and this iteration of the liberal party with a majority.
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Canada should treat all US tech companies the same we would treat Chinese ones. Assume they are an asset of the state and keep them at arm’s reach when it comes to national security.
>“Palantir Canada is a Canadian company, subsidiary to Palantir global,” McGuinty said, referring to the parent company based in the United States that was co-founded by a tech billionaire with ties to U.S. President Donald Trump.
..
>The minister added that “we’ll look at this question of data sovereignty,” and stressed that the Carney government will direct its military spending as much as possible to companies that “build in Canada.”
Sounds like they consider Palantir’s Canadian subsidiary to be a Canadian company that builds in Canada. How convenient.
>Its chief executive officer has also argued in a recent book about the alleged perils of “hollow pluralism” in Western countries and proclaimed Big Tech companies have a “moral obligation” to defend the United States…
So the company has openly declared they’ll voluntarily act as an arm of the US gov’t.
>…the military’s use of Palantir is concerning because of a 2018 law in the U.S. that could compel companies to hand over data to the American government.
There we have it. The final cherry on top.
The fact that the defence minister feels confident enough to brazenly stand by working with this company speaks volumes.
Carney has been a mixed bag for sure, but doing ANYTHING with a company as evil as palantir is just inexcusable. Between this and bill c-22 I’m very disappointed. It was nice to see the minister of the environment resign today based on his view that Canada is backsliding on climate issues. Hard not to say he’s right. I hate to say it but I don’t know if we can trust carney and this iteration of the liberal party with a majority.