Hello,

I'm writing to ask for your support for an open letter calling on PM Carney to Strengthen Canada’s Digital Policy Agenda and Sovereignty, to be submitted to the PM and a large number of others in early September. 

Attached you’ll find the official letter in English and French as well as a draft briefing note. 

If you would like to sign on, please reply all (i.e. to me and my co-author, Bill Hearn)

 

The letter is a revised update of an open letter sent to the PM Canada Day on the same topic that has subsequently benefited from rich feedback and thoughtful exchanges with a wide range of concerned experts. We’ve worked hard to maintain a consensus among those who are generally supportive of the broad goal of advancing Canadian digital sovereignty, while respecting nuanced differences in perspective.

We are keen to get this letter to federal officials well before Parliament resumes sitting on September 15 and are pleased that we are already receiving excellent support, as you can see from the list of signatories to date. 

We're aiming to send the letter on September 2. While there will be provision for signing after submission, we hope that you can sign on as soon as possible, preferably by the end of the month. If you need more time than this, it would be helpful to us if you could let us know by Thursday, August 28.

Thanks,

Andrew

PS. Please feel free to pass this on to anyone else you think may be interested in signing, or let me know how I might contact them myself.

Andrew Clement

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Information

University of Toronto