Personal sovereignty scales. A country that cannot reliably power its own computation, govern its own data, run its own AI, or access a neutral monetary network has traded resilience for convenience.

What should Canada build? Not a sealed national intranet and not a ban on American technology. Canada needs a credible parallel stack: abundant domestic energy; Canadian-controlled data centres; portable open-weight AI; Canadian-hosted and on-premises inference; self-custodied Bitcoin and domestic mining; plus the skills to operate, repair, secure, and replace every layer. Sovereignty is not isolation. It is the power to continue when a supplier or government changes the terms.

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