Tariffs as a Weapon: Geopolitics Has Entered IT
For the past 18 months, geopolitical friction has become the background noise of business.
Wars, sanctions, supply chain disruptions, changing trade agreements, economic nationalism, cybersecurity threats and increasingly competitive relationships between major economies have moved from the pages of international news into boardrooms and budget meetings.
For Canadian tech companies, there’s an additional layer; the increasingly complicated relationship between Canada and the United States.
The temptation is to think, “We are a software company, tariffs are somebody else’s...