An Open Letter to Prime Minister Carney

April 2026 | midagent | John Pope

Holding court with the jester.

Prime Minister Carney,

At Davos in January, you said Canada must be “technologically interoperable but legally and operationally independent” of US platforms. You said nostalgia is not a strategy. And you said the third path requires building new institutions, not merely renegotiating the terms of existing dependencies.

You were describing, in policy language, the exact problem a small Canadian company has been engineering a solution to for the past two years. This letter exists to make that connection explicit.

Canada is losing more than $50 billion annually through three compounding mechanisms: marketplace fees calibrated to market power rather than service cost; advertising spend that has become as inelastic as commercial rent; and government analytics infrastructure that operates under US legal jurisdiction regardless of server location, leaving Canada’s most sensitive data legally accessible to a foreign government on demand. These are not theoretical risks. They are documented and accelerating.

The artificial intelligence transition will not resolve this. It will compound it — unless Canada owns the infrastructure layer that AI runs on. Every dollar of AI productivity that flows through foreign-owned platforms is a dollar whose value accrues to the platform owner, not to the Canadian economy that generated it. The productivity dividend your government has committed to capturing will not be captured through foreign infrastructure. It requires a sovereign alternative.

We have designed one. Its governance encodes the values you described in Value(s) at the level of constitutional instruments rather than mission statements. Its pricing model reflects the economic equilibrium that the agentic AI transition will make inevitable — a transition that is already underway. Its architecture is immune to the CLOUD Act by design, not by contract. And its ambition extends to the G-Middle alliance you have begun to build — because the architecture is exportable to every allied nation facing the same structural problem, on open standards that create federation without dependency.

We are not asking for endorsement. We are not asking for funding. We are asking that your office, or a department you direct, examine the architecture and the argument.

Our white papers are available at midagent.ca. The analysis is there to be verified, not taken on faith.

Canada has the talent, the capital, and the institutional imagination to build this. The window is defined and closing. The moment is now.

Respectfully,

John Pope

Founder

midagent AI