The Liberal government has spent years touting its efforts to make tech giants pay. Now, those pieces of legislation could be a target of the Trump administration—particularly the digital services tax that requires large tech companies to make a hefty retroactive payment in June.
The heads of the biggest U.S. tech companies attended Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday. They included Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai, as well as Tesla CEO and vocal Trump supporter Elon Musk.
Meredith Lilly, a professor at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, noted that Canada is a relatively small market for big U.S. tech companies….