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What Canada’s National Security Strategy Signals About Its Place in the World
CIGI experts on what the strategy gets right and the choices it leaves Ottawa to make. Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at Mila in Montreal the day his government released its national security strategy. (Roger Lemoyne/REUTERS) Much of Canada’s recent economic security policy has been defined by reactivity to the Trump administration. We saw that before in concessions to the Americans on border security, digital taxes and border-crossing revenue-sharing agreements.
Fair, Not Favourable Ratings? Africa’s New Credit Rating Agency Opens
Whenever an African government borrows money abroad, credit ratings issued by a handful of agencies headquartered in New York and London determine what the government should pay. Those ratings determine which investors can buy a country’s bonds and at what price, and African leaders have long argued that those ratings unjustly penalize the continent.
Fifth Annual Workshop on Digital Governance in China
The first three annual conferences hosted by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) on China’s Digital Governance examined a broad range of issues related to China’s digital governance, including data governance, artificial intelligence (AI) governance, emerging technologies, digital trade, and digital assets.
Stablecoins Are Blurring the Line Between Digital Trade and Finance
On July 1, 2026, the first joint review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) opened with the United States declining to commit to a 16-year extension, tipping the pact into annual reviews. For most Canadians, the headlines belong to autos, steel and dairy. But a quieter development deserves attention: digital trade and financial services — two domains the agreement treats as separate — are beginning to merge, and stablecoins are where they meet. Consider a transaction.
Blurred Lines: The Risks of Exporting the United States’ Crypto Classification Model
The US model for classifying crypto-assets rests on conditions most countries lack — and exporting it could erode their economic sovereignty. What appears to be a flexible solution to a classification problem may, in practice, be a context-specific strategy. (Jonathan Raa/Sipa USA/REUTERS) As the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act advances out of the US Senate Banking Committee and moves closer to becoming law, long-standing questions of regulatory clarity take on renewed urgency.
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