They're capitalists, and the job of a corporation is to do what a corporation is supposed to do and the job of government is to regulate. It is a complex issue because this is the biggest force in the history of capitalism, where six companies come from nowhere to be the most valuable companies in the world in a very short period of time. How they're managed in terms of competitive structures, and regulated, and how we do it for the benefit of Canada's economy and Canadian innovators is very important. Things such as competition behaviour and data ownership also must be woven in a national data strategy that looks at prosperity and many other things that go along with it: employment rules, cyber rules, and so on. This is a big file, and we need to urgently address it in a horizontal way as a nation, as policy-makers.
On May 10th, 2018. See this statement in context.