When I advised Quantum Bridge in 2020, they stopped pitching quantum networking and focused on securing infrastructure from quantum computing. Turns out the real threat arrived much earlier. Accelerated computing is breaking the internet and it will break classical encryption.

“The notion that Quebecers do not associate the PQ with good government is a misguided notion.” Chantal Hébert has a reminder for Quebec separatists: picking fights with Ottawa doesn’t build support for sovereignty or majority governments. Parti Québécois won a minority government with only 28% of the vote. The road to a majority doesn’t run through conflict with the federal government, especially when Mark Carney is twice as popular in Quebec as the incoming premier. Quebecers may be unhappy with a court ruling or a fight over immigration, but that doesn’t necessarily turn into votes for sovereignty. Quebecers reward good government. René Lévesque’s 1977 law limiting party donations to individual voters became a model for federal rules. He lost the 1980 referendum, but won a bigger majority in 1981 because voters trusted him to govern. Pauline Marois’s childcare program, launched in 1997 under Bouchard, became the model for the federal childcare program. Marois’ PQ won a minority in 2012, but squandered the opportunity and lost in 2014. After the 1995 referendum, Lucien Bouchard won a majority of seats in 1998 while losing the popular vote. Liberals’ Clarity Act was smart politics but it was also responsible government: rules for session, a clear question, a clear majority. Bouchard expected the Act to provoke Quebecers and revive the sovereignty movement. He responded with grandstanding and Bill 99: Quebecers alone would decide, 50% plus one was enough. Liberals did better in Quebec in the 2000, the sovereignty movement stalled, and Bouchard resigned.

I had never seen hockey like this until today: U18 AA, Clarington (Ontario) vs. Collège Sainte-Anne (Quebec) 41 penalties • 189 penalty minutes 1 major, head contact 9 unsportsmanlike 2 game misconducts 2 gross misconducts 27 minors gamesheetstats.com/seasons/1…

Laying the foundation for Canada’s first* national cooperative bank: link.andrewe.ca/coopbank

Look, we are a reasonable people, and we love our team — the only NFL team in neighbouring New York — but if the haters don’t stop complaining, we will add “God Save the King” too.

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