I think that the main people that have been kind of at the forefront of an effort to kind of combine tech and politics, you have to look at the company Shopify.

Hello. Hello and welcome to Jack Won't Save Us, made in partnership with The Nation magazine.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is Jen St. Dennis.

Jen is a reporter with the Taiyi, a local publication based in British Columbia, Canada. For the past few months, we've been talking a lot about changes happening in the United

States, the alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump and, you know, the complete

remaking of the American government that we're seeing in front of our eyes, often to benefit

the tech industry and some of the most powerful people in the world who run not only that industry,

but increasingly, you know, the United States itself. But that also has consequences

beyond the borders of the United States. And those ideas are not just kind of, you know,

trapped within that one country, but are increasingly influencing powerful people in other

parts of the world as well who see the

opportunity to use what is happening in the United States to try to push for a similar

program in their own countries that would benefit them as well. And so you are probably aware

because I'm sure I've talked about it on this show as well as in other places, plus, you know,

the media coverage that you've been seeing that Donald Trump and the United States have really

placed a focus on Canada in particular as a target for their wrath, their ire, rather than

partnership and ally, something like that. Canada has been hit with major tariffs, and Donald

Trump keeps talking about turning it into

the 51st state. But within Canada, there are also changes happening as well. Longtime Prime

Minister Justin Trudeau recently stepped aside, and Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank

of Canada and then the Bank of England, has stepped in to replace him, or rather has been

chosen by the membership of the Liberal Party to to replace him, or rather has been chosen by the membership

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