Canada’s Trade Diversification 4G Challenge : Gravity, Geopolitics, Geoeconomics, and Governance

Canada's trade diversification drive confronts daunting challenges given that economic geography places it deep in the gravity well of the United States while its main diversification opportunities require partnership with the US' chief geostrategic rival, China. In this note, I sketch out how Canada can seek to navigate the treacherous waters in which it finds itself by focussing on developing its digital governance to be a platform of choice for the emerging data-driven economy; and by working towards a multilateral framework for the governance of data