Some countries are looking into the possible adoption of sui generis protection for the data itself. We're not talking about raw data, but about how data as a whole is compiled, refined and cleaned up to make it more efficient.
The government could perhaps envisage a solution like this to enhance the data we have acquired in Canada. It could be used in artificial intelligence models or enhanced through other mechanisms, as is currently done at the IVADO Institute here in Montreal.
It's not obviously incompatible. On the other hand, the various existing intellectual property laws were not designed to protect the data as such.