The federal government will help finance a new internet network to provide nationwide sovereign internet connectivity, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced.
Calls have grown to develop more networking infrastructure that would avoid routing Canadian data through U.S. internet exchanges.
Researchers at the University of Toronto and York University studying the journey taken by data between two Canadian points have found that, among their data sets, about a quarter of those journeys routed through American interchanges, exposing that information to access by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).