Shopify is poaching customers, Aidan Gomez is on the board, and Canada is getting hosed

Canada’s major political parties have laid out their election platforms, and while there are several commitments to the tech sector, none have promised free cloud storage.

The Liberals have promised to introduce flow-through shares to tech companies, while the Conservative Party has pledged to defer the capital gains tax if the proceeds are reinvested in Canada. The Bloc Québécois has advocated for a funding effort to recruit American AI, biomedicine, and deep tech researchers to Canada.