The world is investing billions in data centres and compute. Canada’s edge isn’t bigger boxes—it’s Trust: rules enforced at home, private information secured under Canadian jurisdiction, and a clear path for enterprise data handling in the age of AI.

That’s how “Canadian trust” becomes a competitive advantage.

This week on Disruptors: The Canada Project, John Stackhouse takes us to Waterloo to map how policy as code, Canadian residency, and lineage + audit turn trust into a speed advantage. Guests: Tom Jenkins & Shannon Bell (OpenText), with Janice Stein (Munk School).

Build it here—export it with confidence.

Takeaways:
OpenText new book
Enterprise Artificial Intelligence: Building Trusted AI with Secure Data:
https://www.opentext.com/media/ebook/enterprise-artificial-intelligence-building-trusted-ai-with-secure-data-ebook-en.pdf

RBC Thought Leadership’s Bridging the Imagination Gap: How Canadian companies can become global leaders in AI adoption:
https://www.rbc.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2025/03/Bridging-the-Imagination-Gap-Report-EN-2.pdf

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The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer

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The Trust Advantage: How OpenText is Securing Canada’s Information Layer