Data Sovereignty: Charting Canda’s Digital Future
Erik Bohlin, Mansi Sethi, Bianca Bhardwaj
Product #:W50186
Supplier:Ivey
Discipline:Economics & Public Policy, Strategy
Setting:Canada, 2025
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Learning Objectives
This case enables students to do the following:
- Understand the concept of digital sovereignty and how it shapes national policy priorities in data governance, security, and economic competitiveness.
- Analyze Canada’s evolving approach from cloud first to cloud smart, including the institutional roles, fiscal constraints, and policy trade-offs involved.
- Evaluate the advantages and limitations of the three proposed policy levers in strengthening Canada’s control over critical digital assets.
- Debate how Canada should balance efficiency, innovation, and sovereignty in sequencing or combining these levers to achieve long-term digital resilience.