Meh, I’ve written to MPs/MLAs a few times on this sort of subject. They aren’t going to ditch Microsoft without a HUGE demand from the public. They ignored Canada’s antiquated privacy laws for so long – letting it focus on “Data Residency” rather than “Data Sovereignty”. So even while the US put in things like the CLOUD act to allow them to take anything in a US cloud, Canada sat there like idiots thinking “if the servers are in Canada, we’re safe and secure!”. Pretty well all our government agencies and regulators are using Microsoft products / are integrated with Microsoft’s cloud. Hell, my Niece/Nephew in elementary school literally got signed up with Microsoft accounts for their school work – indoctrinated in like grade 2. All our financial services are entrenched in Microsoft’s ecosystem too – like, quite literally, most ATMs run on Windows by decree from Payments Canada, and our financial regulator sites / document transfers are all via Microsoft cloud.

Our government can’t function without a subscription to a USA company. It’s difficult to argue we’re a sovereign nation once you realise that. It also helps to explain why the government is so incapable of doing anything about the current situation – they already screwed us all over, based on a foolish assumption that the USA would always be a reliable partner.

And as for them changing, there’s a reason every time you hear them talk about elbows up / pro-canada procurement pushes, they include caveats like “if it’s too hard” or “if it’s too expensive”. They use those as easy outs for anything related to technology. “If we use linux, we’d have to hire people who can maintain linux! We’ve already outsourced all our technical know how to the USA, so it’d cost us a ton to reclaim that capability!”.