The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been before an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America’s tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries.
The second-best time is now.
There are so many good reasons to legalize jailbreaking. It’s not even jailbreaking - I bought a thing. As long as I take responsibility if I break the thing, I should be able to do what I want with it.
My understanding is we (Canada) agreed to honour US IP in exchange for access to free trade. Now trade is off the table we have no incentive to continue protecting their copyrights, patents, licenses etc.