An excellent question. The American-based consulting and IT firms I've worked for did it through their US-based bank accounts. I don't know about other industries.
grey_maniac
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I've heard reports it's already ramping up on the Meta platforms.
How about passing laws allowing Canada to seize and nationalize the assets and infrastructure of any corporation found participating in disinformation that favours a hostile foreign power? Forced "Canadianization" of American corporations operating in Canada in the event of any attempts at economic annexation. Asset, infrastructure, and operations seizure and nationalization for foreign corporations who violate Canadian labour standards (e.g., Amazon), as well as immediate claw-back of any incentives provided for those corporations.
I'm sure Canadian teams could be used to run those seized operations either in the interim until hostilities are verifiably over, or permanently, for the betterment of the Canadian economy.
Fair point. I forgot about that. Provided, of course, it's a military op, and not and intelligence one.
We should design and build the parts for suitcase nukes, then ship them in pieces to Canadians in place in the US for assembly and installation in strategic locations.
Maybe spend it on beginning to build a nuclear arsenal.
We're definitely looking at insurgent warfare. Asymmetric as possible.
That's probably some of our best bet. The more they fight themselves, the less they'll be able to fight us.
What do you recommend for people in MB?
I'm missing my C7 lately.
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The article makes a statement, "governments are not good at big yech projects." What's ironic is I have seen government departments do outstanding work on tech projects, except for when they hire it out to private firms. Then the costs run over, things are late, and all sorts of mistakes happen. When they let their own subject matter experts do the work, it tends to work better.
To be fair, this is from personal observation, but I gave worked on almost 60 technical projects over the last three decades, and a decent percentage of thosd have been government projects. And, to be clear, I worked for the outside private organizations brought in. The government teams were extremely good at what they do.