said by Guspaz:I don't see government security being a concern, because CSEC is going to give everything to the NSA anyhow.
Not if it's hosted in Canada.
and even if they don't, a lot of Canadian traffic travels through the US), so having stuff hosted domestically doesn't matter
Not if it's routed in Canada.
Hypothetically, what if a professor (or grad student's) research is stored on Google and is scarfed up before it's patented and instead handed to a US company to patent, what loss is it to Canada?
What do you figure the patent to the next insulin is worth? Or the next viagra? As an example, Tagamet (a heartburn/anti-ulcer treatment) made the company that invented it billions of dollars over its patent period from the early 1980's onwards.
For years the US complained bitterly about the DGSE of France doing
EXACTLY sort of thing in terms of industrial espionage on US companies and universities. Only back then it was not done electronically. Today it's MUCH easier to steal the work of taxpayer-funded research than ever before, and that is being done by State actors like the NSA.
We bitch and moan as a country about job losses & brain drain. Why hand our stuff on a silver platter to the US - just to save $100k per year?