A ban freezes local standards while demand for AI, cloud, and digital services keeps rising. Workloads do not vanish — they move to regions that said yes. Alberta then exports energy ambition and imports finished intelligence.
Do not ban. Govern. Transparent power and water plans, local benefits, noise and traffic rules, Canadian data residency upside — then build.
A ban protects families.
A ban protects a feeling of control. Families still stream, bank, and use AI — just with zero local ownership of the substrate.
We can pause forever and catch up later.
Compute ecosystems compound: vendors, talent, latency, capital. Catch-up is expensive and slow.
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