Canada needs to balance its desire for digital sovereignty with a focus on building a more competitive tech economy, Josh Tabish, a former policy director for the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, said in his first blog post as the chamber’s senior director for Canada. (The Logic)

Talking point: Canada is just the latest expansion for the U.S.-based Chamber of Progress, a tech industry association that styles itself as “a center-left tech industry policy coalition promoting technology’s progressive future”; it established itself in the European Union and United Kingdom last year. In his blog post, Tabish warned that if the Canadian government’s push for sovereignty develops into protectionism, it could stifle innovation at a critical time for Canada’s economy. He pointed to the previous government’s attempts to regulate big tech with legislation like the Online News Act and Online Streaming Act as examples of an unnecessarily aggressive approach that he urged the new government to rethink.