While I agree that the tariffs would hurt us more than any DST would help us we still need to make a stand and create a bigger, more noticeable, digital economy here in Canada. Sure I personally have moved nearly everything into Canadian services and have started to sail the high C’s, but I know many have not. The 5% would be a rounding error for whatever I pay for the US services I have yet to fully migrate to Canadian ones.
The trick to creating a bigger more noticeable digital economy in Canada is not taxing the digital services of other countries but funding education programs in Tech. Considering the absurd amount of free resources, compiling them all and having a few experts teach the material in online courses would be cost effective and work to promote more Canadians learning the required skills to build our own digital economy instead of relying on the tools and taxation of others.
While I agree that the tariffs would hurt us more than any DST would help us we still need to make a stand and create a bigger, more noticeable, digital economy here in Canada. Sure I personally have moved nearly everything into Canadian services and have started to sail the high C’s, but I know many have not. The 5% would be a rounding error for whatever I pay for the US services I have yet to fully migrate to Canadian ones.
The trick to creating a bigger more noticeable digital economy in Canada is not taxing the digital services of other countries but funding education programs in Tech. Considering the absurd amount of free resources, compiling them all and having a few experts teach the material in online courses would be cost effective and work to promote more Canadians learning the required skills to build our own digital economy instead of relying on the tools and taxation of others.