What Does Cohere’s Merger Mean for Canada’s Digital and Economic Sovereignty?
Canada’s AI race does not have to end in foreign ownership. Cohere’s European merger shows how that trajectory can be changed.
Lester B. Pearson Scholar and incoming CIGI Digital Policy Hub Fellow
Daria is a fourth-year Lester B. Pearson Scholar at the University of Toronto, where she studies International Relations and Peace, Conflict, and Justice. She currently serves as Publications Team Lead at the NATO Association of Canada. Daria is also a research assistant at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, where she works on peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction in Colombia. Previously, Daria served as a Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, where she conducted research on the lessons Ukraine’s technological defence industry offers to the United States and other NATO allies. Daria is an incoming Digital Policy Hub Undergraduate Fellow at CIGI.
Canada’s AI race does not have to end in foreign ownership. Cohere’s European merger shows how that trajectory can be changed.