April 29, 2026 AI is not just a technology story. It's an agency story. The tools people use to manage their health, access information, and make decisions are increasingly designed elsewhere, for other markets, by other priorities. When that happens, we do not just lose market share. We lose control over how systems evolve and who they serve. You cannot regulate your way to sovereignty. You have to build it. It means creating the conditions Canadians need to build for Cana

Significant disruption rarely comes from inside the system being disrupted. Systems create gravity. The longer you're inside one, the harder it is to imagine it working differently — let alone building something that proves it can. I spent years in senior health policy leadership. I've seen what the public system does beautifully. I've also seen how competing priorities and layers of approval can crowd out the most important question: what do people actually need (and want)?