Buy Canadian Tech Push Meets Deep-Tech Funding and AI Security Deals

A Brampton construction tech firm launched the BUY CANADIAN TECHNOLOGY Initiative, a nationwide campaign demanding Ottawa, Queen's Park, and city halls extend "Buy Canadian" procurement rules to software. SMARTBUILD is calling for three specific changes: naming construction software as a strategic category, setting procurement thresholds based on software contract costs, and applying a Canadian-content test to the platform layer of every publicly funded project. The move comes as...