Sovereignty by design: rethinking data security at the 2030 horizon

 Modern cybersecurity rests on a paradox: to protect our data, we copy and centralize it at massive scale. In 2026, three forces are challenging this model simultaneously across Canada: political pressure on digital sovereignty, the full weight of modern data-protection obligations, and the arrival of agentic AI in enterprise environments. Jean Le Bouthillier, founder and CEO of Qohash, offers an architectural reading of sovereignty: why the next decade will be decided not by where we host data, but by how we protect it at its source.